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       AMBULANCE 22/61 PROBLEMS 
   DIR By: CM_FABRIZIO
       Date: December 17, 2011, 6:49 pm
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       TODAY HAS BEEN ANOTHER DAY OF AMBULANCE LET DOWN STARTING THE
       DAY AMBULANCE 22 MADE A LOUD WHINNING NOISE WHILE ACCELERATING
       AND AN ODOR OF BURNING OIL WAS SMELLED LATER AT THE ED A LARGE
       PUDDLE OF OIL WAS OBSERVED ON THE GROUND WERE 22 HAD SAT
       CHECKING THE OIL LEVEL FOUND NO OIL ON THE DIP STICK AND OIL ON
       THE FLOOR AND UNDERCARRIAGE IT WAS REMOVED FROM SERVICE 4 QUARTS
       OF OIL ADDED AND IT WAS PARKED OUTSIDE AND PLUGGED IN  WHILE
       PARKED ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT OF OIL LEAKED FROM THE VEHICLE I KNOW
       THIS TRUCK HAS AN EXSISTING LEAK THE PROBLEM IS I DO NOT KNOW IF
       IT IS LEAKING FROM A NEW SOURCE OR IF THIS IS THE SAME PROBLEM
       EITHER WAY IT NEEDS ADDRESSED . THEN AFTER SOME TIME 61 WAS
       BROUGHT TO STATION AND PLACED INTO SERVICE WHEN IT ARRIVED IT
       WAS FAR FROM READY FOR DUTY AND THE CREW SPENT MUCH TIME
       CLEANING AND REPLACING EQUIPMENT TO MAKE IT FIT  THANKFULLY
       THERE WAS NO EMERGENCY IN HUNDRED WHILE THIS TRUCK SAT UNREADY
       AS THE DAY PROGRESSED THE PROBLEMS SEEMED TO FADE AWAY BUT THEY
       ARE NEVER TRUELY GONE AND 61 QUICKLY REMINDED US OF THIS WHEN IT
       WOULD NOT START FOR AN EMERGENCY RUN IN SMITHFIELD 61 WAS PLACED
       OUT OF SERVICE AND 21 ANSWERED THE CALL TO SMITHFIELD WHILE OUT
       OF SERVICE THE FD RESPONDED TO A WOMEN WHO FELL AGAIN THANKFULLY
       THE FD HAD A CREW AND THIS WOMEN DID NOT LAY LONG ON THE COLD
       WET GROUND WAITING FOR HER RESCUERS FROM WHOM KNOWS WERE
       GRANDVIEW ,TYLER CO. ? ANYWAY IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THE FUSE ON
       THE CORD REEL HAD TRIPPED FOR WHATEVER REASON WE RESET IT AND
       PLACED A BATTERY CHARGER ON THE UNIT GETTING IT STARTED AFTER
       SOME TIME .IT WAS THEN PLACED RELUCTANTLY BACK IN SERVICE  I
       KNOW OUR TRUCKS ARE OLD AND ATTEMPTS TO KEEP THEM MAINTAINED ARE
       ONGOING BUT DAYS LIKE TODAY MAKE ME ASK THE QUESTION WHAT IF IT
       WAS ONE OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS NEEDING HELP AND THE AMBULANCE
       WAS NOT FIT FOR SERVICE OR WOULD NOT START AND CARE WAS DELAYED
       HOW WOULD YOU FEEL I DON'T HAVE AN  ANSWER TO FIX THE PROBLEM
       BUT WE AS AN ORGANIZATION NEED TO FIGURE SOMETHING OUT !!!
       #Post#: 150--------------------------------------------------
       Re: AMBULANCE 22/61 PROBLEMS 
   DIR By: shuggins
       Date: December 17, 2011, 10:26 pm
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       Well said. You did the best you could for having to make your
       own executive decisions.
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