You might be working for Rural EMS If......

[Richard]

Like this

[sleepyemt]

-when you hit a cow on the interstate @60mph on the way to emt class

-when, instead of bringing a regular gift for the emt instructor, one of the guys in the class brings her a paper bag full of deer and bear meat from the animals he hunted himself the weekend before

[bandaidpatrol]

When your emergency response vehicles ARE snowmachines, and you have to mark out a 3000 foot runway for the medivac plane with snow filled garbage bags on a frozen lake at 50 degrees below zero. 8)

We have this box on a skis called a "Sno-Rescue" Sled, heated with a lawn tractor battery-run heater. They have one in the Snowmobile Museum in New Hampshire. Supposed to be towed behind a snow mobile for blizzards or ski accidents, etc. It's very interesting to use, even better if we can keep it from tipping over in deep snow.

I'd get a pic of it, but I fear injury from all the junk piled around it.

[sleepyemt]

-when you hit a cow on the interstate @60mph on the way to emt class

-when, instead of bringing a regular gift for the emt instructor, one of the guys in the class brings her a paper bag full of deer and bear meat from the animals he hunted himself the weekend before

[THE_DITCH_DOCTOR]

When your emergency response vehicles ARE snowmachines, and you have to mark out a 3000 foot runway for the medivac plane with snow filled garbage bags on a frozen lake at 50 degrees below zero. 8)

Uh, reminds me again why I don't go to Canada except in the summer....

[Alcomedicism]

Your Unit to Dispatch conversations go something like this:

Dispatch: Unit 14, are you there? Unti 14, Calling Unit 14...

Unit: Unit 14 here, we're in Possum Flats fishin fer crappie.....

Dispatch: Unit 14 you have a call at the Coon Run Church of Christ, a 68 y/o M, c/o of chest pains

Unit: Okie dokie, I guess we'll mosey on then...... (the Mic is still keyed: Medic 1 turns to his partner and says, Hey Billy Bob, we got a heart attack call, we need to be gettin' on down the road here.)

This actually happened a few years back.....

-Dixie

[Richard]

those sound like my relatives

[Redneck4_life]

if when a call comes in the the first respondrs show up at the stations and to the scene on horse back and four wheelers because the truck's stuck and the john deer wouldn't start.

[Maretta]

Wow.....

The directions, the Carhartts, the snowmobiles, the 4 Wheelers...... that is just like home sweet home!!!

[Alcomedicism]

Well hre rwe actually have a Sheriff's mounted patrol. They only get out diring search and resvues though, and the during the Fair Parade. Thereare like 7 or 8 total though for the moutned patrol. The reast are regular sheriff's deputies that drive around in 4x4 Jeep Cherokees with lightbars.

-Dixie