Los Angeles County Fire Dept

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To answer a few questions:



1) Engine 24 runs a 3 man engine and Quint 24 runs a 4 man truck.



2) Ambulance Units: Out in the Antelope Valley, MA135 has been activated a lot recently. The standard now is that when Antelope Valley Hospital has more than 40 patients in the ER, they will contact either BC 11 or 17 and the BC will have the MA staffed. The staffing has to be done prior to 2000 as per recall procedures. Once thats done MA135 will more times than not run out of 33's. Talk about a full house! They would have the following units running out of 33's: Engine, Quint, Squad, EST, MA135 and Battalion 11. I will have some more photos posted of MA135 soon.



On a side note, there was one ALS run last week that needed the squad to follow up to the hospital and were told that all ER's in the AV were completely closed. They had to go to Henry Mayo that is over 40 miles away. Squad 33 followed the AMR unit about 30 miles and transfered ALS care to Squad 107 in which they continued to the hospital with the patient. Squad 33 then returned 30+ miles back to their district.