Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) was adopted by BCAS a short time ago. In broad terms, AVL is a system by which a cel phone type arangement using GPS signals sends information to our CAD system showing a live version of where all our ambulances are. It is a great help for confirming who is the closest car to a call, [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘i/Dispatcher’
February 11, 2009
The Changes Roll In
A lot of things have changed over the months I have been away. You may be surprised to hear I have some thoughts on them.
Looming Strike Action
The Ambulance Paramedics of BC (CUPE 873) will be in a position to strike as of April 1. Let’s not delude ourselves, strike will happen. The hardcore members of [...]
September 12, 2008
New CAD … New Challenges
The move to the i/Dispatcher CAD system from the terribly outdated and about to implode Altaris system we were using went off without a hitch in June. My first shift on the new CAD, a few hours after the move, was smooth and unremarkable.
The Summer, however, was painful. Our staffing situation was getting worse than ever. At one point, we [...]
June 3, 2008
… I think I’ve found it.
As you can tell from my last post, my heart wasn’t in the job for a little while. Call it what you want – burn out, being disillusioned, or me being a cry baby. The fact of the matter is things are changing.
I decided to do something about my ‘bad attitude’ shortly after you last [...]
