Fumarin

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  1. Posted

    14 hours ago, EMT_FS46 said:

    What’s with the switch to red and blue emergency lights 

    Chicago (and a lot of surrounding agencies) run red and green lights.  The green lights, I believe, were inspired by boating MANY years back then it became tradition :)

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    On 7/27/2020 at 5:44 PM, Rescue51 said:

    I believe Medic #63 is still running out of Lindbergh (KSAN), because I have a friend who was on that rig recently.  I cannot answer your other questions, sorry.  Do you recall Medevac Ambulance, goes way back and they had contracts with San Diego Fire (-Rescue).  Who remember the presence of Hartson's Ambulance in San Diego?  When I was a kid, I recall they were in La Mesa, I believe, but real close to an on-ramp from Severin Drive, onto the I-8.  I'd see them rolling code coming down the on-ramp to get onto the I-8 going east.  I think back then, most the East County fire departments likely had Hartsons's as their EMT/BLS responses.  I believe Santee FD in conjunction with Lakeside FD, went operational with the first East County medic rigs ever, respectively Medic 4 and Medic 1.  They were sorta the pioneers of ALS/paramedics, modelled sorta after Los Angeles County's medics which the show EMERGENCY was all about (if I recall, I could be wrong).  Santee had been a very progressive department, with a rescue rig, even a HazMat rig they bought but never put into service as HazMat (it ran as a rescue, a GMC, as Rescue 4).  Santee has a technical speciality of trench/confined space rescue (if they still do).  I have not forgiven the chief and/or city council there for going away from the yellow painted rigs to the red.   ~Rescue51  

    Hartson's!  That's a name I haven't heard in YEARS!  I remember the ambulance "station" on I-8 between El Cajon and La Mesa. As a kid I remember listening to El Cajon FD pre-Heartland days on a rotary tunable Radio Shack radio I had.  The El Cajon medic was "4391" and the chiefs/staff using 43xx but everything else was Engine/Truck - Back in the ALF days.  Then at some point the Ford C-Series Engine 6 became Rescue 6 ... Ah the good ol' days when you could listen to traffic on a tunable radio :)

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    18 hours ago, mikesaccount said:

    Did Truck 9 get damaged?

    I was watching the live feed from somewhere (KTLA or ABC I think) and after the news hits the were still playing video from the helicopter.  At one point it zoomed in on the front of Truck 9 and it looked like windows had been blown in on the passenger side and the roof of the cab was definitely scorched. 

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    14 hours ago, mesabill said:

    El Cajon FD ran 1960's ALF 85' mid mount aerial till late 80's was replaced by 95' Pierce tower

    If my memory serves, I believe it ran out of what is now Station 9 before they built the new Station 6.  I also recall a Ford engine that seemed to be around forever and ran as a rescue unit for a number of years but that's probably for a different thread :)

  17. Posted

    1 hour ago, tye42 said:

    Put these coordinates into Google Maps and it shows exactly where pic is taken --- There is actually an engine sitting in the spot for a photo.

    44°14'33.6"N 88°28'11.8"W

     

    That's great!  Thanks for the info :)

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    The land underneath the engines and the numbers on the door are all different but the backgrounds are exactly the same (flags in the exact same position and whatnot).  I wonder what the background really looks like? :)

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    OK that was fantastic!  I noticed on the board they showed the equipment using what they use today - E5, T14, etc but when they dispatched them to a call it sounded like they were using 4 digit IDs.  I know when I first started listening to El Cajon in the late 70s / early 80s most of the county was using 4 digit IDs but did San Diego use them on a regular basis too?

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  20. Posted

    20 hours ago, Rescue51 said:

    Recall the old days up there when the San Diego County Sheriff's Department provided the ambulances and EMT's?   Always good when the ambulance with the 2 EMT's would arrive with a combative 5150, since those two on the ambulance, I believe, were also sheriff's deputies. 

    Talk about a walk down memory lane - I do remember that!  From what seems like forever ago :)  Weren't they still using low band at that point as well?  (Before moving to UHF)

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