State EMS
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- Has multiple pagers for multiple stations.
- Personal vehicle is a tactical command vehicle (and has more lights than 5 ambulances!).
- Talks more on the radio than a DJ does.
- Knows every other station’s tones by heart.
- Entire wardrobe is station wear or off-duty stuff from the Gall’s catalog.
- Sleeps with the scanner on all night, every night.
- Washes the rigs every weekend, but has not washed personal vehicle in years.
- Parks in the home driveway backwards.
- Never misses “Rescue 911,” “Cops,” “Trauma Life in the ER,” etc.
- Has multiple radio antennas on personal vehicle (more than a Russian fishing trawler).
- Corrects dispatch over the air on how to dispatch units.
- Has reflective striping on personal vehicle.
- Responds to a scene after recall.
- Drives the rig like Mario Andretti.
- Leaves the pager on open channel all day.
- Carries a pocket scanner.
- Subscribes to ALL fire and EMS magazines.
- “I was there.”
- Responds to the station during tone tests.
- Doesn’t drink because they might be dispatched.
- Has at least five different EMS hats, sweatshirts and/or t-shirts.
- Has 500 road flares in the trunk.
- “Star of Life” decals obscure the rear window of personal vehicle.
- Knows every police officer’s name and thinks they are pals.
- Wears a “Star of Life” belt buckle.
- Chases other company’s trucks.
- Carries a stethoscope on the rear mirror of personal vehicle.
- Personal jump kit is bigger than the one on the ambulance.
- Uses a 5-cell Mag light to check pupil response.
- Owns a window punch & seatbelt knife
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