619Emergencys

These are Mercy medics who serve the Zone 2 Rural area of East County, there is not much info about them online. There is some info on them though in this article that the East County Magazine did when the county changed from AMR to Mercy in Zone 2 a few years ago.
http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/county-changes-ambulance-service-without-public-notice-public-safety-advocates-voice-alarm
 
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I have not heard the new truck code yet but by the way you describe it it could be running the Whelen Epsilon which is the same siren B2 and M4 run.
 
Here's a video of M4 running code with the Epsilon. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Ul_hLKQrI
 

From Heartland's instagram.
"Heartland Fire & Rescue takes pride in having the most up to date equipment and apparatus. This new @piercemfg engine will proudly serve the city of la mesa after the first of the year."

The new Pierce TDA has been delivered from Pierce to South Coast Equipment, to Santee FD.  The new ship was driving around station 4's today.  Beautiful rig.  They are doing training and placing all their equipment on-board. Not sure how long that is going to take, but I suspect much quicker than LAFD.  

Spoke to a Rural Firefighter yesterday and he told me AMR has told folks in Yuma the Fire service activity  will be evaluated for 1 year and then a decision will be made.

All R/M-own 911 rigs in Maricopa and Pinal counties in AZ have been remarked to AMR. Interfacility/GT are being branded as Lifeline Ambulance. 

I noticed Tempe PMT station 275 and Scottsdale PMT station 604 have been rebranded to Life Line Ambulance.

Yeah PMT is being rebranded as Lifeline as well. 

There are a bunch of new AMR branded medic units at the shop. 5-10 I would say. 

Just spotted one of these rigs on the road marked as M26, is this the start of a Rural/Metro transition to AMR?

Was reading some meeting agendas and minutes from Heartland recently and saw that a possible merger with NCDJPA was in the talks.
 
There is talk about this possible merge in the 3rd paragraph of their 2016-2017 Financial Plan which you can read here.
 
 
 
 

This is on the agenda for the fire board meeting on the 27th.
 
 
ACTION AGENDA ITEMS
 
2. Approve purchase of Fire Prevention vehicle.  
 
3.  CSA  115  –  The  Board  of  Directors  will  discuss  and  may  take  action  to  re-establish  discussions with Lakeside Fire District to further explore possibilities of a joint CSA 115 annexation.  
 
4. CSA 115 – The Board of Directors will discuss and may take action to stop development of the Station 19 fire station (Pepper Drive) pending results of discussions with Lakeside Fire District regarding CSA-115.

They will be returning to Heartland for dispatch services. 
 
Here is a page from the analysis that was conducted.

 
Here is a link to view the entire analysis.
https://www.facebook.com/CAL-FIRE-Local-2881-Firefighters-of-San-Miguel-1599182290364788/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1751030658513283

The Border Fire is definitely bringing some interesting sights to El Cajon. The day the fire started SDFD E44 went code by my house in El Cajon on the way to the Border Fire, there are also some strike teams in various parking lots around El Cajon either resting or grouping up to head down to the fire.

Looking at PulsePoint M438 is no longer a 12HR unit, they are now 24HR and have replaced M8, M440 is now the 12HR unit at station 8, the only fire medic left for Heartland is M9.

I couldn't agree any more.
 
Also M440 took a call today in El Cajon, I don't believe there are currently any AMR rigs in the area with this unit number, I'm guessing this is the 3rd medic that will be in El Cajon with the new contract, not sure why its numbered 440, I thought the units were going to be numbered 436-439.

EL CAJON — El Cajon is contracting out more of its paramedic services with a private company.

 

The City Council unanimously agreed last week to an expanded deal for five years with American Medical Response Ambulance Service Inc. for transporting patients to hospitals.

 

As part of the contract, AMR will pay the city nearly $1.5 million over five years. The city also anticipates overall savings based on a decrease in personnel costs, capital costs, such as fuel, and for vehicle upkeep.

 

Read the entire article here

Very nice!  Thanks for your service Captain Danell!  That's Heartland Fire & Rescue, La Mesa Rescue-Engine 12 (nice Pierce, even the guys on SDFD Rescue 4 were impressed with RE-12). 
 
http://lamesacourier.com/la-mesa-fire-captain-bids-adieu/