u/FFSoldier57

EMS is evolving, and we’ve had to evolve with it. When I started in EMS in 2005, the Lucas machine had already been out for almost two years, but it didn’t make its way to my area until late 2006. Even then, it was more of a luxury item until around 2013, at least where I worked.

The automatic stretchers, I’m not exactly sure when they first came out, but the first time I saw or used one was around 2009. Even now, though, a lot of companies in my area still use manual stretchers.

As for the automatic stretcher loaders, I don’t know the proper name for them, but I know they’ve been around for a while. I mostly saw them in bigger cities or on city-based ambulances, especially up north. I do know of one fire department here that has them on their units.

What are some of new technologies you like?

I always see that and I wondered they do that?

I wonder how much 1 billion can get me in stock from like Tesla or Space X. That or invest in Disney or Coca Cola.

However on the plus side of it, Barney got a peanut out of it.

I’ve seen situations where a man will simply say a quick hello to a female friend and then go on his way, only for her boyfriend to walk up and tell him not to talk to his girlfriend or try to start a fight over it.

Something similar happened to me once. I was at a small get together with friends from high school, and it had been years since any of us had all hung out together. While we were there, the host’s female cousin came out of the house, saw me, and asked if it was really me. I just said, ‘Hi, long time no see.’

Her husband was standing right behind her and immediately gave me a death stare. A few minutes later, I heard yelling and looked over at the driveway. The host and the woman were trying to hold him back while he was screaming that I was dead and that he was going to kick the shit out of me, all because we exchanged greetings.

I paid it no mind. My friend who was the host, and a few others physically forced him to leave. Nobody really liked him to begin with anyway.

I was working on the ambulance with my partner for the day. The best way I can describe her is that she treated work like high school and only wanted to work with the ‘popular people.’ We didn’t get along, and more than once I had to put her in her place.

We were assigned to work together, but she refused to work with me and just went home, putting us in a bind since we were already down a unit. I stayed and worked my shift anyway. However, the supervisor, who happened to be her best friend, tried to write me up because she abandoned her job that day.

I argued it, and when the owner saw the write-up, he asked the supervisor, ‘So you think it’s fair to write him up because he stayed, but she refused to work and abandoned her shift, and that’s perfectly okay?’

The supervisor immediately said yes.

The owner ripped up the write-up and told me to leave because he was going to have a talk with the supervisor. About 30 minutes later, the supervisor walked out with his head down and was no longer the supervisor.

I was stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado, and that place was beautiful. I used to love going to Pikes Peak and visiting the small nearby towns so we could hike the trails. As a matter of fact, we also went to Granby, Colorado, about a month after the Killdozer incident happened and actually got to see the Killdozer.

My oldest brother was stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. I visited him while he was there, and Hawaii was just beautiful.

I forgot the name of the post, but my friend was stationed in Germany, and he said it was amazing over there. According to him, the sightseeing alone made it worth it.

The biggest fish I technically caught, but I had to cut the line because it was a dolphin.

Other than that its mainly Catfish the biggest has been 26 inches and 12 inch Sheepshead. All on South Padre Island.

A asshole Lt I used to work with at the FD who constantly tried to get people fired by making up lies and turning others against them. The irony was that he had been fired himself before, but his uncle, a city commissioner, always got him his job back, which only inflated his ego. He would brag that he could do whatever he wanted and nobody would stop him.

That finally changed when he was caught stealing hours from the city by changing his times on the time clock, and they even had him on camera. He got fired, and this time his uncle couldn’t save him. He was so delusional he actually sued for wrongful termination despite the evidence and thought he’d get his job back, and make him the Fire Chief. Fourteen years later, he’s still trying to sneak his way back into the department through politics, but it hasn’t worked.

Tim McGraw "Can't Be Really Gone" hits me hard because my first love died of cancer last year.

Also Darryl Singletarys "I let her lie", because I caught my ex cheating on me. Deep down I knew but I didn't want to believe it.

I don't care how rich I get, I'll still take Hamburger from a diner over anything and continue eat Ramen noodles.