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Big Dog--this info took even me by surprise!  I assumed (and you know what happens when people assume) that with the population of Tehachapi and the outlying areas, that Hall's ran only paramedic with an emt ambulance.   Imagine having chest pain or being in a serious car accident out in Stallion Spring/BearValley/Alpine/Mojave and just receiving first aid as medical care because that is all the Hall's emt's can do!!!???I realize that a paramedic cannot hand over a pt to an emt, but I thought all of Hall's ambulances had one paramedic aboard.  The level of care and service provided by Hall's is worse than I thought.  Hall's need to run a paramedic with every ambulance as a minimum standard of care.  Allowing the Kern County firefighters to work as paramedics would greatly increase the number of lives saved.  As you said, waiting for an ambulance for 15 to 25 mins to respond to an outlying area, add in a 5-10 min scene time to reassess and load the...
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