Comments on: Sleep Carefully, Austin http://firegeezer.com/2008/12/27/sleep-carefully-austin/ The Fire/EMS Digital Dayroom Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:09:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dal90 http://firegeezer.com/2008/12/27/sleep-carefully-austin/comment-page-1/#comment-1672 Dal90 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:20:10 +0000 http://www.firegeezer.com/?p=5377#comment-1672 Mickey mouse stuff like that is always irritating, and there's no need for it in negotiations. I've seen some effective city managers screw locals brilliantly without coming off as bush league. What's interesting is to look at their call volume -- if I read their reports right, they run a bit over 350 incidents/year, with 50 of them requiring paging of call/off-duty personnel (including some pages for individuals). While that seems real low for a population of 23,000 I cross-checked it against my town and other towns near me in the 8,000 to 16,000 range and that is in line with what the calls would be w/o medicals. I think we lose perspective sometimes just how much busy time EMS contributes. Mickey mouse stuff like that is always irritating, and there’s no need for it in negotiations. I’ve seen some effective city managers screw locals brilliantly without coming off as bush league.

What’s interesting is to look at their call volume — if I read their reports right, they run a bit over 350 incidents/year, with 50 of them requiring paging of call/off-duty personnel (including some pages for individuals).

While that seems real low for a population of 23,000 I cross-checked it against my town and other towns near me in the 8,000 to 16,000 range and that is in line with what the calls would be w/o medicals.

I think we lose perspective sometimes just how much busy time EMS contributes.

]]> By: Dal90 http://firegeezer.com/2008/12/27/sleep-carefully-austin/comment-page-1/#comment-13388 Dal90 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:20:00 +0000 http://www.firegeezer.com/?p=5377#comment-13388 Mickey mouse stuff like that is always irritating, and there's no need for it in negotiations. I've seen some effective city managers screw locals brilliantly without coming off as bush league. What's interesting is to look at their call volume -- if I read their reports right, they run a bit over 350 incidents/year, with 50 of them requiring paging of call/off-duty personnel (including some pages for individuals). While that seems real low for a population of 23,000 I cross-checked it against my town and other towns near me in the 8,000 to 16,000 range and that is in line with what the calls would be w/o medicals. I think we lose perspective sometimes just how much busy time EMS contributes. Mickey mouse stuff like that is always irritating, and there’s no need for it in negotiations. I’ve seen some effective city managers screw locals brilliantly without coming off as bush league.

What’s interesting is to look at their call volume — if I read their reports right, they run a bit over 350 incidents/year, with 50 of them requiring paging of call/off-duty personnel (including some pages for individuals).

While that seems real low for a population of 23,000 I cross-checked it against my town and other towns near me in the 8,000 to 16,000 range and that is in line with what the calls would be w/o medicals.

I think we lose perspective sometimes just how much busy time EMS contributes.

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