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  1. Either in the year 2013 or 2014 Ford US will start makeing the European transit chassis for ambulances in which AMR is looking to go to back Ford if this does happen. As of this moment new 2012 type IIs are on the dodge/mercedes sprinter chassis. I have seen the transist ambulance in spain but never had the chance to see the interior of one nor see how it handles. Any of you guys from Europe that work of a ford transit can you please tell me how they handle and how is it to work in one i.e. headroom/ workroom?

  2. Fire Captain David Bailey

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    The Los Angeles County Fire Department family is mourning the loss of one of our own this week – Fire Captain David Bailey who sadly passed away on April 3 while in the performance of his duties. Bailey, 50, suffered a cardiac arrest at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday while engaged in physical fitness activities at his work location of Camp 14 in Santa Clarita. Bailey's enthusiasm for his work, as well as his attention to detail, was well-known among those he worked with. "Dave was a great guy to be around," says Assistant Fire Chief Gerald Cosey of Division V. "He was full of energy and liked to handle business."

    An 18-year member of our Department, Bailey was actively involved in the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) and Hazmat communities. In fact, as the Red Team Hazmat Manager on our Department's California Task Force 2 (CA-TF2) team that provides search and rescue support to national and international disasters, Bailey was an integral part of the team's deployments to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Japan Earthquake/Tsunami in 2011. "He was a multi-talented guy," says Battalion Chief Larry Collins, who worked with Bailey on these deployments. "He was a very well-rounded firefighter who had a lot of specialty skills and did them all well. He always had a great outlook and attitude. He really loved his work; for him, it was an adventure every day." Agrees Battalion Chief Patrick Rohaley, another CA-TF2 member, "Dave always had a great attitude. He made sure that when we did something we did it right and to the best of our abilities. He contributed greatly to the team both on deployments and here at home in maintaining our readiness in activities."

    This sudden and tragic loss of a valued and respected member of our Department has triggered an outpouring of support from the fire agency community, as well as the public. After Bailey's untimely passing was announced on our Department's Facebook and Twitter sites, condolences immediately began popping up from members of the online community. "Our sincere condolences to the family of Captain David Bailey and the Los Angeles County Fire Department," wrote the Monterey County Fire Training Officers Association. "Rest easy, brother. Prayers to the Bailey family and to the LACoFD," posted one resident. "Thank you for your service. Rest in peace, sir," wrote another.

    Bailey lived in Acton and is survived by his wife, Lisa. They have no children

    http://fire.lacounty.gov/FD_rtls/home_story41-1.asp

  3. Does LA County have any Dodge patrols or are they only squads?

    I know USFS has at least one Dodge patrol.

    I would rather keep the mod realistic. I vote for the Ford. I don't think you should be putting fictional units in when there is a better alternative.

    LACoFD is replacing all the in-service Fords with the the Dodges. The squads, patrols, and the utility trucks are being replaced with the dodges and the fords are going into reserve pool. I know this because I have spoken to a firefighter from Station 33 which has had all their vehicles replaced with newer ones even their helicopter.

  4. Yes I am going to reskin the ambulance E343, it will probably be a McCormick or maybe a Care ambulance.

    Freakinmusket If you are going to reskin the ambulances than use McCormick because AMR sorry EMSC bought out care ambulance a couple months ago and the change will happen at the end of this year.

  5. No it is just going to be Los Angeles County as a whole, non of the municipalities in the limits.

    No because 1. Foam 10 is the KME 2. I am making this take place in Carson and 3. I wanna make a new model for it! :)

    I have no problem with that. One thing are you going to make boat 110 than?

  6. Over here in LA County we are still getting rain in late April but that means that next year there will be a lot of major Brush Fires during Fire season.

    The latest one, Crown Fire: 14,000 acres (57 km2) burned, 2000 homes evacuated. For the first time ever LACoFD called in the 747 supertanker.

  7. 126's has the CAFS rig because it is the Battalion HQ. All of the stations with CAFS rigs are BHQ's, like 24's, 118's, and so forth. 73's has the foam tender there because of the industrial regions it is located between, so not only is there the HASA Chlorine production plant, there is also the oil refineries up Sierra Highway near the 14.

    Now for another update, I give you the 1990 KME Excel engine, original model by Helljumper51, who did an outstanding job! Here is the rig in service as E127 while their newer KME underwent its annual check up

    True thank you for correcting me, but the oil pumping station is required by NFPA, LACoFD, and other laws, say that they have to have Oil Firefighting equipment on site in case anything goes wrong. Go watch

    Modern Marvels-Oil Fire Fighting and Hellfighters (1968) they will explain more.

  8. You're kidding me! AMR has definitely changed in the 10 years since I've been there. How does LA County Fire/EMS function on a regular basis? Does an ALS private ambulance get dispatched to every call? How do they decide if the patient needs an ALS private ambulance with a FD squad? Is it used purely if the FD squads in the area are all out of service or on calls? I remember even as an ALS rig back in '03-'04, if we ran with LA County FD, we had to function as a BLS rig because of billing purposes, unless the patient is about to die right then and there.

    Yes it has changed, County fire paramedics on an engine, squad, EST, truck can leave if AMR can handle. This happens more in Santa Clarita more than any were else in LA County due to AMR quick response time where assessment/treatment has already started and/or almost finished also if their is enough paramedics on scene but this is rare and only happens if the CES team has nothing to do. right now AMR BLS units are used more for IFT'S than anything else. More ALS units are being put in the field for 911 calls these days because paramedics can due more than emt's if some thing goes south on the patient. For your next question its supply and demand if there are not enough squads to go around than AMR can call off-duty paramedics to come in and grab a rig and head out as an RA which in county ems' eyes can operate a squad and transport at the same time. But this does not happen a lot. Billing is different if an BLS rig has a BLS call than its billed as a BLS call and its an ALS rig on a ALS call than its billed as an ALS call, now if Its a ALS rig on a BLS call no matter if county fire is there or not its is billed as BLS call.

    Hope this answers your questions.

    Black top LACoFD Engines have CAFS (compressed air foam system) installed. It's just cosmetic in the game. Don't get me started on it as far as real life...

    I think I can help you on this one. Most of the battalions have 1 CAFS pumper in it and the pumper that is chosen to have a CAFS put on it is because the buildings in its area. For example LACoFD station 126 has a CAFS pumper because its next to the Santa Clarita mall and who knows what a mall has that can burn. Also 126 is a mile away from a chlorine production plant and has it for that reason too. Thats also why station 73 has a foam tender there.

  9. LACoFD is one of the best in the nation at what they do.

    From fighting a house fire one minute to a major wildfire the next and than after that bringing someone back to life during a full arrest.

    LACoFD also has it share of not normal calls like a person's hand stuck in a pickle jar to a tunnel fire that reached 10,000 degrees (as hot as the surface of the sun).

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  10. The contract AMR has with LA County FD just provides them with BLS units for 911 transport. The ALS units are just used for inter-facility transport. The last of the AMR ALS prehospital care in LA County went away when Vernon went to fire/medics for their ambulance. Even then, AMR almost always used the Vernon FD ambulance, staffed with AMR medics. I say keep the AMR units BLS for this submod.

    First of all AMR staffs and runs ALS units for 911 calls because of a little storm a couple years ago that had all the LACOFD squads tied up in north LA County and had LA City RA's running through out Santa Clarita as squads. After that LA County EMS sat down and said that a private ambulance company that is Licensed to run ALS calls can run ALS calls. The only ALS rigs that is dedicated to IFT's (inter-facility transports) are the CCT(Critical Care Transport) rigs which staff 2 EMT's and 1 RN. In fact there was a call during the April storms of 2010 that was in Lake LA and there were no LACOFD squads available for the next 30 minutes. So AMR sent an ALS rig out of Palmdale that just got off a call to the address in Lake LA and made it under 15 minutes. I cannot say what the injures or age of the patient due to patient-confidentiality laws but I can say that this type of call happens anytime there is severe weather. One last thing is that LACOFD can leave any medical call in the hands of an AMR ALS rig only.

    This is why AMR ALS units are not only for inter-facility transports in fact BLS units take more IFT's than ALS units.

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