Message: 5
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 10:28:11 EDT
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Subject: Re: Sunstar?
In a message dated 5/26/00 12:24:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tpredmor@ writes:
<< Does anyone know how SS assigns its unit numbers? Some are 1xx thru 5xx. Why are the post numbers different than what their unit numbers are? I would think that they would be the same...it would probably make it easier on the dispatcher.
-Tom
Sunstar units # are (at least used to be) assigned by the last two digits of the actual ambulance number and a prefix. Most units ID as 4XX which stands for standard 11 hour shift cars. 5XX units are those with permanent quarters such as 573 in Dunedin. (This designator is always the same regardless of which physical truck is being used) I think that H.P. units are assigned 300 series IDs.
With few exceptions, all of the units are moved around throughout the county to provide adequate coverage. If a lot of calls are going on in north county the dispatchers will move units up from the south. The post numbers are just locations where the ambulances "hang-out" to await calls in a particular part of the county. They are supposed to stay pretty close to this location when "posted." The dispatchers can "see" where the unit actually is via the EDACS system (have they changed this to something else)? and occasionally you will here a crew being told to get back to their post. No ambulance is permanently assigned to a post with the exception of those few units with permanent quarters. That is why you will here oncoming units at headquarters requesting to start out being posted north or south depending on the crews preferences.
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 07:38:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:
Subject: Re: Re: ID?
To add to what Gerald said about tropicana 500, it is a person working for bayfront. I work with the hospital as a volunteer in the clinic at the trop. TP 500 is a person that is in command of all the ems crew that work for Bayfront/St. Anthonys. All of the commands for the stadium (i.e. janitorial, administrative...) sit together on top of the batter's eye restauraunt. He has two radios, one for the medical crew, and one for the fire communications. He is advised is an ambulance is is needed over the fire communcation 1-K. There is also a fire command that only has one radio that is on 3-G, and all the personell that are in st. pete fire uniforms contact their command on 3-G for any fire problems or to report anything that needs attention at the stadium that they notice, and that will be passed on to the appropriate command.
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Tropicana 500 is the person in charge of all responses to Medical Calls at
Tropicana Field. I believe he/she is employed by St. Petersburg Fire
Department and is assigned a number of paramedics during major events. To
make it simple (I believe), Tropicana 500 will be the "on-scene" unit for
all calls occurring at the field, thus getting his own incident numbers for
any of the paramedics on duty at the time. This makes record keeping a
little easier, since there is no actual apparatus assigned.
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Reply-To: TampaBayTRS@egroups.com
To: TampaBayTRS@egroups.com
Subject: [TampaBayTRS] Re: ID?
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 03:01:30 -0000
TROPICANA 500 PERSON WHO WORLS AT THE TROP
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 07:48:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:
Subject: Re: Sunstar?
As I said before that I am an explorer down at sunstar. THe unit assingment's last two digits are the last two numbers of the unit's fleet number. The newer trucks have a 2xx fleet number on them, and the older ones have a 1xx fleet number. The first digits go as follows:
1xx- HP truck, which does code 1 and twos (scheduled non-emergency transports), but they also can get assigned to a code 3 (emergency call) if they are the closest unit.
2xx- A regular system truck that has a sunstar supervisor on it
4xx- System truck
5xx- 24 hour truck with a specified post. Crews work like fire with 24 on 48 off.
6xx- Field Operations Supervisor
7xx- Utilization supervisor, also special events unit.
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In a message dated 5/26/00 12:24:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, XXX writes:
<< Does anyone know how SS assigns its unit numbers? Some are 1xx thru 5xx.
Why are the post numbers different than what their unit numbers are? I
would think that they would be the same...it would probably make it easier
on the dispatcher.
Sunstar units # are (at least used to be) assigned by the last two digits of
the actual ambulance number and a prefix. Most units ID as 4XX which stands
for standard 11 hour shift cars. 5XX units are those with permanent quarters
such as 573 in Dunedin. (This designator is always the same regardless of
which physical truck is being used) I think that H.P. units are assigned 300
series IDs.
With few exceptions, all of the units are moved around throughout the county
to provide adequate coverage. If a lot of calls are going on in north county
the dispatchers will move units up from the south. The post numbers are just
locations where the ambulances "hang-out" to await calls in a particular part
of the county. They are supposed to stay pretty close to this location when
"posted." The dispatchers can "see" where the unit actually is via the EDACS
system (have they changed this to something else)? and occasionally you will
here a crew being told to get back to their post. No ambulance is permanently
assigned to a post with the exception of those few units with permanent
quarters. That is why you will here oncoming units at headquarters requesting
to start out being posted north or south depending on the crews preferences.
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 07:48:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Dobkin
Subject: Re: Sunstar?
As I said before that I am an explorer down at sunstar. THe unit assingment's last two digits are the last two numbers of the unit's fleet number. The newer trucks have a 2xx fleet number on them, and the older ones have a 1xx fleet number. The first digits go as follows:
1xx- HP truck, which does code 1 and twos (scheduled non-emergency transports), but they also can get assigned to a code 3 (emergency call) if they are the closest unit.
2xx- A regular system truck that has a sunstar supervisor on it
4xx- System truck
5xx- 24 hour truck with a specified post. Crews work like fire with 24 on 48 off.
6xx- Field Operations Supervisor
7xx- Utilization supervisor (comm center), also special events unit.
--- gjmead@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 5/26/00 12:24:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
tpredmor@worldshare.net writes:
<< Does anyone know how SS assigns its unit numbers? Some are 1xx thru 5xx.
Why are the post numbers different than what their unit numbers are? I
would think that they would be the same...it would probably make it easier
on the dispatcher.
-Tom
Sunstar units # are (at least used to be) assigned by the last two digits of
the actual ambulance number and a prefix. Most units ID as 4XX which stands
for standard 11 hour shift cars. 5XX units are those with permanent quarters
such as 573 in Dunedin. (This designator is always the same regardless of
which physical truck is being used) I think that H.P. units are assigned 300
series IDs.
With few exceptions, all of the units are moved around throughout the county
to provide adequate coverage. If a lot of calls are going on in north county
the dispatchers will move units up from the south. The post numbers are just
locations where the ambulances "hang-out" to await calls in a particular part
of the county. They are supposed to stay pretty close to this location when
"posted." The dispatchers can "see" where the unit actually is via the EDACS
system (have they changed this to something else)? and occasionally you will
here a crew being told to get back to their post. No ambulance is permanently
assigned to a post with the exception of those few units with permanent
quarters. That is why you will here oncoming units at headquarters requesting
to start out being posted north or south depending on the crews preferences.
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Message: 13
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 14:11:09 -0400
From:
Subject: Re: Sunstar?
An HP trucks is a regular SS ambulance that for that day is assigned to nonemergency routine transports. They do code 1's (scheduled 24 hours in advanced) and code 2's (people that call in and say they need somebody transported that day). These trucks are assigned a 1xx number. Theses trucks can also respond to code 3 (emergency) calls if they are the closest trucks. They have a special that also that says that their shift is 10 hours or 10 transports, which bringing to doctor's office and then home is 2 transports. Another clause says that if a system truck is dropping a patient at the hospital and there is a patient waiting to come out they will take them. ----- Original Message -----
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 22:07:04 EDT
From:
Subject: Re: Sunstar?
In a message dated 5/27/00 8:43:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, XXX writes:
<< Are you sure that's EDACS? EDACS is a type of trunked radio system. The SS
units are on the county's Motorola system. Are you talking about some sort of a vehicle location system? I'm a bit confused on this one.
Thanks for all the good info, though.
Whoops- wrong acronym-the system is referred to by something like that though.
The SunStar units have a vehicle mapping and location system on board. The system used to get its position information from speed and direction sensors on the ambulance. I have heard that the system is now GPS based. In addition to showing the crew the directions to the call on a video map, the ambulance location is relayed (I assume on one of the data channels) back to dispatch. They can see where every ambulance is within a few yards. They can even track a unit and determine how fast it is going.
There is a big screen at the front of the sensate dispatch center which can display the location of every ambulance in the county. (Although on the night shifts it is frequently used to display television programs) Interestingly either the crews don't know or don't remember this capability. It was always fun to watch how long after a unit said that they were responding that they actually started to roll and how long before they reached the call location that they went "On Scene"
At least this is how it used to work. Things change pretty quickly-Anybody know if this information is still current?
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 22:09:22 EDT
From:
Subject: Re: Sunstar?
In a message dated 5/27/00 8:43:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, XXX writes:
<< Would you be willing to list what 5xx SS units serve what areas? That would
be really nice info to have for trunker. Hope this isn't asking too much, and thanks for 573 as Dunedin. Got it logged. >>
Don't know anymore-589 used to have quarters at St. Anthony's and there was a 24 truck quartered up at Tarpon Springs. May be more now.
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Message: 10
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 22:10:42 EDT
From:
Subject: Re: Sunstar?
In a message dated 5/27/00 10:07:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, XXX writes:
<< Whoops- wrong acronym-the system is referred to by something like that though.
Actualy, now that I think about it was (is?) called ETAC.
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Message: 11
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 23:24:37 -0400
From:
Subject: Re: Shell Island
Also, is ECSR Eckerd College Search and Rescue?
Yes.
