Response driving

All of our sprinters were governed at 85mph. I thought it was that way from the factory.

They're not any more tippy than a Ford or Chevy Type II is, but because the driving position is higher up, you're much more aware of how much they're actually rolling. They're good vehicles though, reliable and far, far less tippy than most people think they are. That said, the thing that gets people in trouble with them is that they have a much tighter turning radius than an American van, and a much faster steering ratio as well, kind of like a drift car, so it you jerk the wheel in one, you're going to get a much more aggressive change in direction a lot more quickly than you would in a Chevy or Ford, and that's how you get in trouble. Once you keep that in mind, though, you'll wonder how you ever put up with driving an E350 or Express van.

I drive the fire truck once. It was fun.

>Put your head through the hole separating the patient compartment from the front and ask how your partner is doing. If you are going lights already, it really doesn't make a difference.
>"Oh shit, the patient just converted into V tach! Increase your speed by 12.45532 miles per hour!" Lol no

There have really only been two times when I told my partner "I don't care what you do, I need you to get me to the hospital 5 minutes ago". Once, was a relatively young, otherwise healthy dude with an aortic aneurysm that was dissecting from his aortic root all the way down past his renal arteries (getting transferred to one of the only hospitals in the country where he actually had a chance) who started getting hypertensive refractory to his labetalol infusion, and the other was a 32 y/o mother who had just delivered her 3rd healthy kid through a C-section which was now bleeding profusely despite placement of a Bakri Balloon tamponade device, who despite having blood products and fluids running through bilateral large bore IVs decompensated during the trip, lost 3-4 liters of blood while en route, and bottomed out as low as 45/20 before I was able to stabilize her pressure in the 80s and get her to the trauma center in one piece.

Notice how they're both transfers. That's because no pre-hospital patient will ever be as sick as a transfer can get. Your pre-hospital patients are either alive or already dead (and the ones that die during transit count as "already dead"), whereas your sickest transfers are the ones that are alive, with a major life-threatening illness that, through the wonders of modern medicine, has been stabilized just enough to buy them that extra hour or so that they need to get to where they'll actually be able to receive the definitive care that makes them something other than a statistic. For these patients, your truck is now a vital part of "definitive care".

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>45/20
Damn, driver shoulda taken a corner deja vu style, that always gets my passenger's blood pumping.

can't pump what you don't have lol

It's critical care shit, I forgot to add that I've been a CCEMTP since 2010.

Yes, I could figure that out. I was being a smartass

Copfag here.
People will go full retard and either not move to the right, or not move at all, even when you start yelling at them over the speaker or blast your airhorn at them.
Always check up at stop signs and instructions. Because there's always one asshole who thinks they're going to complete their turn before you get there.
By policy we can't go over 20mph the posted limit. Which has always been a relatively "safe" speed in my opinion. The only time I'd go faster is if an officer was calling for help. Can't help people if you don't get there safe.

After you do it a few times you get over the novelty. I've stopped running lights and sirens to medical calls. Because I'm not a fucking doctor and all I'm gonna do by getting there first is stand around and say "fire will be here any minute"

Firefighter here but not a FAE/FAO. Any response stories you want OP? This is an /o/ thread but Jow Forums is friendly sometimes.

People aren't always going to move. Just hope your department has a bump policy. I love bumping dumb stubborn fucks and wrecking their bumpers when they refuse to move. Get your push bars right up on one of the corners where there's no metal backing for maximum collapse.

Bring em
Wrecked vehicles
Shit driving from your partner
Especially stupid civillian reactions
etc

Never heard of a bump policy, sounds like a pretty sweet deal

dont know how to green text but here goes.

Be me, part of Virginia National guard activated for Hurricane Sandy, operating in the Onancock area near the coast.

Decide to do a route patrol with 2 sergeants and a sfc, what could go wrong, rain is no longer horizontal and is just stupid heavy, and wind wont blow us over.

Instead of taking Humvee with a battery that has to be jumped every fucking time decide to take the Truck we use to haul the riverine boat.

Be me in passenger seat acting all tactical and shit, when we pull up to an intersection with about 4 cars in front of us I notice a hot chick in car to my right.... Get Driver to honk horn.

Fucking fuse or some shit for horn fucks up and Horn blares and wont stop.....cars in front start scattering and braking and girl looks at us like weve lost out shit.....

Ride all the way back to Armory with horn blaring.... fuck me...

Mfw..

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