Deciding which ambulance company to run with.?

You should certainly go with the place that receives 1000 calls a year. There is nothing like experience to further your career and increased call volume is a great learning experience. This is not to say you will be over run. 1000 calls a year is far from heavy. I work in a town with 4000 calls a year and there a points were we go 24 hours with only one call and yes sometimes 24 calls in 24 hours. i mean 1000 hours works down to a call every 8 hours about...400? thats about every 18 hours...

I always like being busy....it makes the time go by faster. You listed the number of calls ran per year but you didn't mention how many trucks each company has running. We run about 6000 ALS calls and about 8000 BLS calls a year, but we have 14 ALS trucks and 22 BLS trucks that run 24/7. We also use an EMD program that allows ALS trucks to only run ALS calls and BLS trucks take the BLS calls. I think you will be happy with which ever one you pick, EMS gets in your blood. Stay safe out there.

We run about 350 calls a year. We work off a pager from home ie pager goes off I have 5 minutes to get to the ambulance and go enroute. I am the full time day shift person, and i bet I go on maybe 200 calls a year out of the 350. Sometimes I go 2 weeks before I get a call! It is rather boring, and terrible for keeping your skills up. I would fully reccomend the higher call volume!

I concur with the others. Higher call volume means more experience, makes those long 24 hour shifts go by faster and you learn far more. ALS is a great way to get what you need. You also need to consider if you want 911 or general transport.

You don't say what rank you are. I'm an EMT-I and I love EMS. It's been a wonderful experience. Good luck to you.

EMT