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hmm only problem I have with the OES rig is that it's YELLOW We all know yellow fire engines shouldn't exist. And Scotia, I'm saying this while I'm totally calm and drinking a Corona, so calm down, k? Happy Cinco De Mayo!

Why worry about OES rigs and support vehicles? I say lets get a working submod out there and work on the extras later! It's looking great so far!

Who cares where the lights are on the battalion vehicle. If we nitpick someone's work to death, it'll never be released. Keep up the good work bro! You can put the lightbar under the hood for all I care! lol

Black top LACoFD Engines have CAFS (compressed air foam system) installed. It's just cosmetic in the game. Don't get me started on it as far as real life...

You're kidding me! AMR has definitely changed in the 10 years since I've been there. How does LA County Fire/EMS function on a regular basis? Does an ALS private ambulance get dispatched to every call? How do they decide if the patient needs an ALS private ambulance with a FD squad? Is it used purely if the FD squads in the area are all out of service or on calls? I remember even as an ALS rig back in '03-'04, if we ran with LA County FD, we had to function as a BLS rig because of billing purposes, unless the patient is about to die right then and there.

The contract AMR has with LA County FD just provides them with BLS units for 911 transport. The ALS units are just used for inter-facility transport. The last of the AMR ALS prehospital care in LA County went away when Vernon went to fire/medics for their ambulance. Even then, AMR almost always used the Vernon FD ambulance, staffed with AMR medics. I say keep the AMR units BLS for this submod.

FYI "Engine 10-1" and "Engine 10-2" are numbered incorrectly as to how LA County FD numbers their vehicles. It should be "Engine 10" and "Engine 210", with Engine 210 being a part of a light force. To be honest, I don't know if LA County used the Light Force concept back then, so you might be better off deleting engine 210 altogether and having the ladder run as a single piece with 4 people on it.

yes Yes YES I like it! Brings me back to the days when I was an AMR jockey in SoCal. Really, you got everything a LaCoFD submod really needs. All that is missing is a quint tiller. I guess you gotta remap the stations to have a squad instead of ambulance. You're not gonna get all fancy with a LaCoFD tractor-trailer USAR are ya? No need, in my humble opinion. Just make all the AMR ambulances BLS please! If you make it so that a squad has to go on all the medicals, you've really created a whole new way of playing the game!

I don't know where you live, but I don't think it'd be a problem if you request to take a tour of your local dispatch center. They'll have loads of information, and to see if first-hand might give you some new ideas. You could make it arcade-style for the fun factor, or make it a simulation and some organizations might purchase it as a training tool. Either way, good luck!

lol I'm sure they're not keeping tabs on how many release date requests there are and multiplying that by ohhh 3. That'll be how long they extend out the release date. Yeah thats how it works. Just a genuine question. From my perspective, it looks like an incredibly fun, detailed, epic modification that'll never be released. I only say this after lurking for a very long time. I mean no offense by it. I'll even buy the mod if that's what it takes to get it out there! Maybe I've become a little pessimistic about the release. I'll go back to waiting patiently.

My hat's off to you for such an excellent mod. Thanks for being one of the key people in making this game a classic. P.S...you never did make my LA County Engine, ya lazy bastard! All kidding aside, thank you for all the work. I hope to see you come back sometime after a much deserved break. Take care, Hoppah.

Lets make it real then. Whenever PD responds to fires, have them park right in front of the hydrants. Also for EMS, make 90% of the calls come in as "Chest pain, breathing difficulty" and end up being a 20 year old with a sore throat. It'll be so realistic... Seriously though, is the release date creeping up yet? I've been lurking in this thread for a loooong time.

Los Angeles is a city, not a state. Los Angeles COUNTY does have volunteers, but they only operate out of a very small amount of stations, in rural areas. La Habra Heights (in LA County) is a volunteer dept (with part-time paid ff/paramedics), but that is relatively far away from LA City and would not mutual-aid with LA City. You also have teen-age fire explorers that technically volunteer their time, and you might find them on fire apparatus, but they ride along as observers. So long story short, putting volunteers in this mod would be inaccurate. The call volume in LA City is much too high to be anything but a paid-professional fire service.

I've gone into LABattalionChief.script, LAFireStation.script, and LAFireStationstart.script, and made what I thought were the proper changes to staff the ALS ambulance with just the paramedic stretcher team, but whenever I start the game, that extra paramedic is ALWAYS there. Also, I changed fp_params_endless.xml to decrease the frequency of events and make a few extra ems calls, but again, it doesn't seem to change the game. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I ran a few calls with LASD SAR. They are BLS. They respond when requested (if requested). I remember LACOFD was big on just doing it themselves, but maybe things have changed. The two calls I saw LASD SAR was a) a mountain biker who fell about 6 miles up a trail in the Angeles National Forest (ANF) and had to be driven out (we had LASD Air 5 on that call, too). and B) a dog somehow made it's way halfway down an 80 foot cliff. LASD rappelled down, secured the dog. LACoFD LF 82 got their aerial up to get everyone off the cliff. That's my experience. They are definitely BLS, last I checked. If they need ALS, that's what the LACoFD squads are there for.