My First California Earthquake

FOSSILMEDIC SPENDS 1.5 DAYS IN THE DARK, while staying in a beautiful city … learning about advanced ambulance deployment at the Pinnacle conference … only for the readers of FireGeezer. Not even a 5.4 earthquake would make the deployment geeks leave the seminar. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-la-quake30-2008jul30,0,6284507.story

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It was cool to experience the undulating floor, not as much fun looking at the swinging chandelier. If we did flee the dark cavern, we would be forced to enjoy Harbor Island in San Diego.

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Instead the next presenter, Todd Stout, was trying to show the impact of the earthquake on Riverside County and Los Angeles City, two clients of First Watch. http://www.firstwatch.net/

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Todd was struggling with the stingy level of wireless service available in the building. Even though the Los Angeles Times server was down, and southern California media websites overloaded, deployment attendees were providing realtime updates from the impact area.

Of course, the thin wireless service may be due to the workload created by the forty-something deployment attendees as well as the hundreds of programmers at a seminar in an adjacent room. The meek may inherit the earth, but the digerati (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digerati ) will be the first to know when it is happening.

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FossilMedic

Thanks Rich! What would I do without friends like you. Wide Grin.

Mike

Rich Hoyle

I had the dubious pleasure and honor of running EMS and fire calls with Fossil Medic for many, many years on "The Highway" In fact, he was my EMS Supervisor for a number of years before he percolated out of the field and into one of the mazes in the "puzzle palace". He was, and I suspect still is, a good man to work for.

And, while I have the utmost respect for Fossil Medic and I consider him a good friend, I can categorically say that he has spent a lot more than 1.5 days in the dark in the course of his illustrious career.

Rich