Hello to all. My name is Richard and I am a medic for Louisville Metro EMS, formerly Jefferson County EMS here in Kentucky. Merger?? Isn't it great....(crickets) We have a few problems but are attempting to work them out.
I have been an EMT-B since 83 and got my medic numbers early last year. We avarage approx 100 thousand runs a year and growing. I know it's not alot compared to some places but when one year you have just over 60 thousand and the next right near a 100 it's a big jump... We are a third service. When county and city merged EMS was taken out of LFD. JCEMS was a third service prior to merger. We have seen alot of changes. I guess the bigest one is that before we were all ALS and now we have Fly cars and BLS units. Hard to get used to hearing two units get dispatched to the same scene for soa or cp.
Just a little about us. Hope all have a safe and Merry Christmas.