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    I remember I went to thi a time or two when it ended at Jack Murphy Stadium, and the main event was a huge apparatus muster. I thought I heard that it was revised so that it ended in North County somewhere, but now when I Googleskim for it, it only shows a Burn Run 5K. Anybody have any association with this? I wish the apparatus parade would come back.

  10. Posted · Edited by California Red

    https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/san-diego/story/2019-12-03/san-diego-plans-to-switch-ambulance-providers-for-first-time-since-1997

     

    Switching from AMR to Danish-based Falck comes after disputes with AMR over response times, staffing levels and fines

    By DAVID GARRICK

    DEC. 3, 2019

     

    5 AM

    SAN DIEGO —  

    San Diego officials said Monday they plan to switch the city’s ambulance provider for the first time in more than two decades.

    Fire-Rescue Chief Colin Stowell said the city has decided to engage in exclusive contract negotiations with Falck, a Danish-owned company that provides ambulance services in nine U.S. states including California.

    City officials chose Falck over the city’s existing ambulance provider, American Medical Response, based on how the two companies responded to a 73-page “request for proposals” issued by the city in August.

    The decision to switch comes after a series of disputes between AMR and city officials over response times, staffing levels and fines levied on the company for not meeting city goals.

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    On 6/23/2019 at 4:14 PM, firepost said:

    What is a CCU and an RH? Also what is C 957 and C 307?

    I never lived right in PHX, but my town went from Rural Metro to PFD coverage fairly recently. RH would seem to be rehab. I missed CCU. (I love the PFD live dispatch page, but it would be nice if they explained the apparatus codes [they do list FD's]).

  13. Posted

    I never knew anything changed re: the California Red, but I will say that some agencies seem to put one on just to put one on. Like, "OK, we're following the rules now". When I was last in Sacramento a few years ago, it was that way on their medics (at least how I saw it). Took a few moments to find the California Red, but it was tucked in the main light bar. 

    I wonder if I'll ever live to see CHiPs cease their pissiness about blue lights.

     

  14. Posted

    So, around 2:45pm today, I am riding MTS #11 turning onto University from Park, and I see an ambulance from Coudersport EMS in the northern central part of PA (Twin Tiers, near the NY border). White with purple bottom half, IIRC. Is there an EMS conference going on here in SD, CA? Odd find, but pretty neat since I used to live in PA (out west, near Pittsburgh, but still). 

  15. Posted

    About 5 mins ago, I heard outside my condo a piece of apparatus with an oddly deep-sounding horn. Nothing out of the ordinary with the siren. Anybody have any clue if Stn. 5 has something new? Or if it might have been an ambulance? Just curious. Gives me something to look out for on the streets of San Diego.

  20. Posted · Edited by California Red

    "Arizona"? That's vague (though I've heard of "Central Arizona Fire/Medical" or some suuch, which is a merging of departments somewhere around Prescott, IIRC.) Where is this exactly?

    ETA: Oops. Indeed, Sun Lakes and North County have merged.

  21. Posted

    That was a great video! Maybe just me, but it looks weird to me to have the only main rotator light be amber. They had some interesting apparatus back then, though. I was born in '75. It'd be interesting timewarping back to that year and being my actual age now.

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    In a dramatic show of just how fractured the relationship is between the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department and the San Diego Lifeguard Association, 76 of 102 permanent lifeguards voted to form their own department called the “Marine Safety Department,” and leave the Fire-Rescue Department.

    https://ivn.us/2017/12/06/san-diego-lifeguards-vote-to-leave-fire-rescue-department/

    What would this do regarding, say, the Toyota arrangement? And overall, is it better for a lifeguard service to be attached to a fair department or does it depend? Anybody follow this situation closely?

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