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I'm now listening to Columbus Fire and EMS, they just dispatched a freeway assingment or something, whats that?

probably a mva on an expressway or free way..i would think they would send more apparatus for that

it was an MVA, no injuries. There busy now, 2 EMS runs in 2 minutes

Freeway assignment is pretty much any run that comes in on the freeway til they get a nature on it. Only MVA's will stay as a Freeway Assignment.

If you're looking for more info, the rehab club, Box 15 has a webpage about the assignments and such.

http://www.box15.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=37

I gotta listen! What site are you guys on, that one radio one that was mentioned before?

If you search scanamerica and click on Ohio, click on franklin county, it's the semi rectangular near the center, and click on COlumbus Fire/EMS

2nd alarm attic fire right now. Having some exposure problems, 3 exterior lines operating, building evacuated. All companies have par.

EDIT: You can listen to the fire, my department, and other departments in the small county here:

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=1790

I see. Hutchinson, I thought you were from Columbia, KY? Well FAIL on my part haha!

random funnyness you almost brought a tree down with water this winter haha

I live in Richmond KY for college, but my home is in Columbus OH. I'm going back to work and for spring break Wed. and I work Thursday and Sunday, on Medic 119.

So this will be your ride then?

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I can't see your pic, but this will be my ride.

Yeah that's the one in my pic. Strange that you can't see it :/ It's this one: http://columbusfire.8m.com/images/medic119.jpg

Is that one ALS?

another broken link..

What the hell? Oh well. Head to this site then: http://columbusfire.8m.com/home.html And find Station 119, Minerva Pk EMS.

Yeah, we're ALS, we have minimally 2 medics on the truck, but a full truck for us is a 4 man crew 2 medics and/or 2 basics/1 basic and 1 intermediate/2 intermediates

woah thats a large crew haha and i like the air horns

Tells people get out of the way if you have train horns haha.

Hutchison, I've been listening to the Columbus fire/ems channel for a while, and figured most of it out, but what is a "Engine Service Run"?

EDIT: And "Medic Run". Is that an unknown medical call?

Engine/Ladder/Rescue service runs, are just as they sound, they are nonemergency runs to assist the public. On memorable Ladder service run I have heard when working was for Ladder 111 and the subject was fixing his roof when his ladder collasped down on him and he was stuck on the roof. An engine service run might be a broken pipe, or something along those lines.

Medic runs are most Township calls, such as if CFD takes a run for Blendon Township because all of Westerville is OOS and we're out, they'll call it a Township Medic Run. It can also mean a general ALS call that they don't have programed in to the CAD (Fiona), or it could mean a call that the caller/pt. wants kept under wraps. Those are the calls you'll hear, check the MDT for address and radio channel. So that it's not availible to everyone listening in.

You snoops!

Yours looks maybe a year older then ours but we have an ambo almost identical to that minus air horns haha


and so i found out the circus is hiring i might join haha get alot of my traveling in

C. Hutchison wrote:Engine/Ladder/Rescue service runs, are just as they sound, they are nonemergency runs to assist the public. On memorable Ladder service run I have heard when working was for Ladder 111 and the subject was fixing his roof when his ladder collasped down on him and he was stuck on the roof. An engine service run might be a broken pipe, or something along those lines.

Medic runs are most Township calls, such as if CFD takes a run for Blendon Township because all of Westerville is OOS and we're out, they'll call it a Township Medic Run. It can also mean a general ALS call that they don't have programed in to the CAD (Fiona), or it could mean a call that the caller/pt. wants kept under wraps. Those are the calls you'll hear, check the MDT for address and radio channel. So that it's not availible to everyone listening in.

You snoops!

Ah, I see. You guys sure get a lot of Chest pain and Difficulty breathing calls. I mean at least 75% of the ones I've heard have been that, with some Ill person and Seizures mixed in now and then.

I thought the RTS mod was a a bit off, giving you so many Cardio calls, but damn, it's right on the money

Lol, I was playin the NY submod and had all my ambulances out on Cardiac arrests haha. Those peoples health sucks! The worst it has been down here is a bunch of chest pains at once.

Listening on the Columbus PD freq. as well. They just got a 10-10A, Bomb threat or suspicious package found. Something about a drug deal gone bad.

Here's one of our new ambulances:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=446103513762&set=a.414618678762.189344.230899173762

(We just got another new one though, delivered about a month ago)

We run a two person crew. Paramedics either come out of a big EMS company that does ALS and BLS (MONOC), or comes out of one of the nearby hospital systems (Atlantic Paramedics)

Here is a MONOC Paramedic (The one on the right closest is the paramedics, I don't know if this is their old or new truck though, I'd have to see the front)

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=414618943762&set=a.414618678762.189344.230899173762

Can't find any good pictures of the Atlantic Medic trucks, but that's what we have^. We have a 2 person BLS, and we have 2 (sometimes 3) ALS trucks within 5 minutes of us.

This is what the ambulance service around here runs. They also run Ford F-series. But these are some of the newest ones. I rode in this one during my field time for my certification.

This is what they use here, and in Norway in general.

There are other models, but that's the most common.

Here are two of the other common models, and a Doctors Response Car (the rearmost one, with "Lege" written in the rear window) from the Norwegian Air Ambulance service.

Those are nice Kaizer, by the way how much room do those ambulances have in the back?

Can't find a good picture.

That was the best I could find. And this one:

Not very roomy, but enough.

Wow, that does have a lot of room.

Yeah, it's set up pretty effectively. I'm not sure what the reasoning behind using vehicles that small, but I suspect it has to do with the places they need to go. Just like the fire engines.
Here is an example, though a very extreme one. In most cases a helicopter would be used to get to these places.


That's a Doctors Response Car in the old livery. Like I said that's an extreme example, but the roads and city streets here are small. And people in the cities park like morons.



This size of street you find on most major cities here.

I can understand the people parking like morons. Here once the siren is turned on everyone automatically becomes stupid. We almost got hit one day going to an MVA.

I wouldn't want to drive on that.

The private service I work for just got some spirnters, and there is enough space for me to stand up in the back but I can't move in there. I would not want to work a code in the back, thats for sure.

The one's we use here have quite a bit of room. Enough we had 4 of us standing in the back one day before we took off to the hospital.

I've been in the back of one of the LAS Sprinters, I can't remember much, mainly since I was in the back due to possible injuries, but I think they're quite spacious, I'll look into finding or taking a pic soon.

heres our neweset baby




It's a 2009 it's our rehab ambo

Here's our two frontline ambulances. 2007 Freightliner Medic Masters with airhorns (they sound really awesome!). They're each staffed with 2 FF/PMs. They usually respond to fire emergencys too, with the tower and quint. On medicals, they usually respond either by themselves, with the quint, or with one of the two Paramedic Impalas. We also have a Ford, but it's usually in the other station and is rarely used, but sometimes it's put in Station 2 and takes the place of one of the Freightliners.

yeah most of our EMTs are FF's but we dont have a ton of fires so they really dont have a need for there turnout gear but they all have it and right up the hill we have a huge like 10 ambo private service so if we get a big fire we usually pull our crew entirely and have them come down for rehab and stuff.

10? huh, lifenet here runs 9 ambulances everyday just for the county I live in.

Here's One of the 34 new Columbus Fire Medics

Ohh I like that! Kinda looks like the ERTFD RA-1!

I must be the only one who has never really cared for the Freightliner style ambulances.

I'm with you, they seem oversized and kind of overkill depending on the area. That is a nice truck though.

The only difference between this truck and the old version, is that the old F-350 medics have a longer nose, and this one has a higher box, I can accutally stand up staright in the back, and the cab is a little bit larger, which makes it much more comfortable.

Sorry for breaking away from the topic within this topic, but got something cool for you guys to see:

1. Go to google maps.

2. Type in: 1751 Gorsuch Ave, Baltimore, Maryland 21218

3. Go there, and go into street view.

4. Come back here and tell me if it looks familiar

old fire hall? that the dept probably closed cuz the governemnt is poor?..other than that it isnt familiar to me

It was the Fire Station from the movie Ladder 49. The real World Engine 33's old station, but then Engine 33 moved in with another Truck and that station closed so they shut it down, but refurbished it for the filming of Ladder 49.

Well the reason it's so big is because it's a Fire-Rescue like our one ambo it probably has a smaller combi tool, depending on the area water and rope rescue stuff...road flares, cribbing, axes, and other general rescue stuff so they need more room

o really? wow it doesnt even look the same

Yeah. Now it looks abandoned (And I believe it is). They put up no parking signs, took off Ladder 49's name plate above the left garage, took down all of the flags, and I think there used to be a house right next to the station on the right, but now it's just an empty space.