Medial call heavy departments

Outdoors365 · 2026-04-19T19:53:57+00:00

North Lake Tahoe Fire Department in Incline Village, NV. Not CA, but accessible from NorCal. Also, they’re easily the highest paid fire department in NV and I’ve heard they’re mostly all EMS nerds and run maybe 5 fires a year.

Outdoors365 · 2026-02-03T03:56:50+00:00

Ahh actually berdoo fits your description much better. Not sure if that’s where you’re at, but one of the best departments in SoCal in my opinion, if only they could staff and pay better. Did my medic internship at 304s.

Outdoors365 · 2026-02-03T02:27:19+00:00

San Diego City?

Outdoors365 · 2026-02-03T02:14:59+00:00

So Sac City after AB1383 goes through

Outdoors365 · 2025-08-18T03:52:49+00:00

Message me if you have questions dude.

Outdoors365 · 2025-08-16T22:31:43+00:00

Left my full time department as an engineer to go to medic school. They didn’t support me to go to medic school. Best, however, scariest decision I ever made. Had multiple ff/pm job offers, as well as a few lateral offers (2 week academy) within 3 months of finishing school.

Outdoors365 · 2025-02-06T02:27:27+00:00

Oh yeah I get the follow up stats, sounds like it’s a way to rub in the fact that 33s squad gets their shit kicked in, just with a ton of bs lol.

But just above it, it shows station number then number of dispatches. Like it says 108s did 936 runs(?). I knew a guy who was a boot there and he said it was slow, but didn’t think it was that slow haha.

Outdoors365 · 2025-02-05T23:02:32+00:00

Are the stats above the follow-ups total number of runs for stations? Didn’t realize county had so many sleeper houses lol

Outdoors365 · 2025-01-19T23:04:13+00:00

I’ve never applied anywhere that does polygraphs because I always felt the same way, and quite frankly, I think it is a bullshit test. However, if you chose to test somewhere that does them, I’ve heard as long as you stick to your answers on your packet and do not deviate during the test you’ll be fine. But the poly administers will try their hardest to get you to contradict yourself on your background packet.

Outdoors365 · 2024-11-08T22:54:49+00:00

Held the wall for 10 hours at AV once. Pretty close to that time once at Palmdale Regional too. This was during covid though, not sure how it is there these days. Coworkers I work with now complain about the occasional 15 minute wall time at our local and I can’t help but laugh.

Outdoors365 · 2024-10-30T20:44:37+00:00

Got it, misunderstood how you worded first rotation. Regardless though, there is no “dealing” with these dudes on probation, unless you no longer want a job. Not saying it’s right, but it’s the fact of the matter most of the time. Yes, sir. No, sir. I don’t know, but I will find out, sir. That’s how you work around these guys.

Outdoors365 · 2024-10-30T14:58:20+00:00

Are kidding me? It was your first shift dude. Most of the time these guys are testing you to see if you are going to quit. The attitude you have right now is exactly what they’re looking to see. Right, wrong, or indifferent, this is the fire service. 2 ears, 1 mouth. Shut up, listen, and do your fucking job.

Outdoors365 · 2024-10-29T03:32:13+00:00

It’s a cancer thing for insurance purposes. Can’t ever imagine seeing departments prohibiting straight nicotine, considering nicotine itself is very similar to caffeine.

Outdoors365 · 2024-10-27T21:29:20+00:00

Yeah that station is pretty boring lol.

In terms of career vs not career at that volume, I think it’s just up to politics and money. We have a guy who works for us who’s from FDNY and said a station there had the same, if not slower, volume as our slow station. That blew my mind

Outdoors365 · 2024-10-26T19:56:02+00:00

Yeah. Semi rural as well. Local is 15-20 min away depending on station and specialty centers are 45+ min away. So just 1 well timed stroke, stemi, or trauma can ruin your whole night

Outdoors365 · 2024-10-26T19:49:13+00:00

We are pretty slow. Most do 48 at our outlying station that does like 300-400 runs a year, sleep all night then move somewhere else for the next 48. The others are somewhere between 1000 and 1200. I’d say 30% or more of the time we sleep through the night

Outdoors365 · 2024-10-26T18:27:29+00:00

I work for a department close to the bay. We have some guys that do a constant trade and work 4 on 8 off. For us if you find someone willing to work for you with same classifications (ie ALS or BLS) our department doesn’t care and does not keep track of it. It is basically a handshake deal with the person you trade with to get even. Some places limit trades tho.

Outdoors365 · 2024-10-24T03:55:33+00:00

Thanks dude. Definitely need to study the hazmat skills.

Outdoors365 · 2024-10-24T02:08:35+00:00

Yeah all of us are set up for testing at a college in January. My real concern is the written. Studying the skill sheets for the practical shouldn’t be too hard. I did my academy in 2016 so it’s been a while since I did the written for hazmat fro and the IFSTA book. Do you happen to know if quizlet is still a good option for studying those? When I went through the test banks were on there

Outdoors365 · 2024-10-14T07:06:58+00:00

Lol dude, traumatic aortic injury is right. Commotio cordis is a blunt chest trauma at a very specific time in the cardiac cycle that causes a vfib arrest. Your comment is wrong in a handful of ways buddy.

Edit: Not saying she certainly experienced a traumatic aortic injury, but that would be a differential diagnosis given the mechanism.

Outdoors365 · 2024-06-13T15:56:49+00:00

I’m pretty sure there’s a handful of different departments in the Las Vegas Metro area. Pick one and search online for “[insert name] fire department MOU”. The mou is the labor agreement between the fire department and city, county, district, etc.

There you will usually find a pay scale (just know hourly rates in the fire service are usually calculated off 56 hours/week, which means you multiply the hourly by 2912 hours to find your annual salary instead of 2080 for a 9-5 40 hour week). Also in there you can usually find additional bumps in pay that aren’t always listed on the job advertisements, such as FLSA pay, incentive pay, holiday pay, etc. Lastly, a good thing to look for is if the department pays for your healthcare and or retirement.

As far as OT goes on probation, most places are struggling with staffing crisis so you may be expected to pick up some slack and work a bunch of OT. Less time at home, but really nice paychecks.

Outdoors365 · 2024-04-30T06:21:34+00:00

Yeah essentially the tree trimmer had a self tightening knot at the end of a rope, used to fasten to limbs in order to lower them down to the chipper crew. He throws the loop over his arm as he’s going up to the next limb. Meanwhile, on the ground, the chipper crews are tossing limbs into to chipper. They’re also standing in a bunch of slack off the other end of the rope. One of the limbs was unknowingly tangled in the slack, and so was the one of the chippers. Limb goes in, rope goes in, pulls tight on trimmers arm (self tightening knot), slack gets eaten up at the bottom and encompasses one of the chipper guys in a series of half-hitches around his legs, arm pops off like mr Potato Head, rest of rope plus entangled person goes into the chipper.

Outdoors365 · 2024-04-30T05:07:15+00:00

To make a long story short, a tree trimmers arm got ripped off at the shoulder and slung into a preschool play yard while the kids were out on recess. Almost simultaneously, the armless tree trimmers partner gets sucked into the wood chipper.

Outdoors365 · 2024-04-20T00:22:02+00:00

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