EMS Helo Hit By Drunk Driver

What is it about NM that it has such a major impaired driving issue?

The biggest problem are the lax New Mexico judges who refuse to throw the book at these morons. It's not uncommon here in El Paso to read about a drunk New Mexico driver involved in an accident either here or in Las Cruces who has over a dozen DWIs and still hasn't had their license pulled.
 
For once, but FL is still the default location for incidents like this.



Hey, it was an AStar. It's safer for the PT this way. :stir:

Native Air? The good news is that it incident/accodent because the blades weren't turning, unlike the one in FLORIDA.

Gallup Meth Flight. Another AMRG scam.
 
I'd be curious what kind of LZ security/block there really was. Granted, theres only so much that can be done depending on assets on scene, I'm just curious what all they actually had to secure an LZ with. The number of times I've landed on the interstate or on a road, it was pretty well blocked off both ends. But, there were assets available to do that also, at the time.
 
I'd be curious what kind of LZ security/block there really was. Granted, theres only so much that can be done depending on assets on scene, I'm just curious what all they actually had to secure an LZ with. The number of times I've landed on the interstate or on a road, it was pretty well blocked off both ends. But, there were assets available to do that also, at the time.

The majority of scenes that we landed helos on in the Phoenix area we would set up the LZ somewhere off a road like in a park or school parking lot,etc. I do remember a few wrecks on the 303 (before Goodyear got a trauma happiest) where we landed them on the freeway,but I also recall DPS closing the freeway down an exit or two down the road. Usually PD or a Battalion Chief would block the exposed end of the LZ on surface streets with their vehicles. But not every location has a vast amount of resources available to accomplish this.


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I think I read a fire truck was hit first. One of the last times this happened had a driver go around the police car ("why in the heck is that in the middle of the road?") that was blocking off the road (LZ) and ran right into the helo.
 
There's an election next month. Florida may find itself in the lime light again.

Our citrus industry marketing folks strike again!

Actually, "lime lights" were first used theatrically in 1936 in the UK to illuminate a juggling performance. An Oxyhydrogen flame is applied to a cylinder of quicklime. The result: temps of 4,662 °F (2,572 °C), which generated a lot of light before the quicklime would melt. They were phased out in the 1880s and 1890s as safer electrical bulbs generated more light, and projectors & follow-spots moved to carbon arc technology as a very intense light source (now mostly disappearing also). But the phrase has long outlasted the quicklime technology, as one who is featured center stage and lit more intensely than other performers.

Some counties in FL have replaced voting equipment / software twice since the Hanging Chad election (Bush II v. Gore, 2000). All have done so at least once. Punched paper ballots are gone. My county uses a paper ballot where we draw lines to connect halves of an arrow. This becomes an input device which the voter feeds into a scanner for electronic tabulation. The marked paper ballots are then saved as a back-up in case a recount is needed.

Only Chad left is a guy that just moved here from Ohio, who may or may not have registered to vote.
 
Driving cross country I stopped in Gallop for dinner about 10:00 pm on a Friday night. Accidents everywhere, looked like a war zone. While I was in Burger King someone wrapped their pick-up around the light post out front.
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Our citrus industry marketing folks strike again!

Actually, "lime lights" were first used theatrically in 1936 in the UK to illuminate a juggling performance. An Oxyhydrogen flame is applied to a cylinder of quicklime. The result: temps of 4,662 °F (2,572 °C), which generated a lot of light before the quicklime would melt. They were phased out in the 1880s and 1890s as safer electrical bulbs generated more light, and projectors & follow-spots moved to carbon arc technology as a very intense light source (now mostly disappearing also). But the phrase has long outlasted the quicklime technology, as one who is featured center stage and lit more intensely than other performers.

Some counties in FL have replaced voting equipment / software twice since the Hanging Chad election (Bush II v. Gore, 2000). All have done so at least once. Punched paper ballots are gone. My county uses a paper ballot where we draw lines to connect halves of an arrow. This becomes an input device which the voter feeds into a scanner for electronic tabulation. The marked paper ballots are then saved as a back-up in case a recount is needed.

Only Chad left is a guy that just moved here from Ohio, who may or may not have registered to vote.

I'll be happy with ANY light when it comes to the opacity of Florida politics. If the citrus industry wants to shine a very bright one, more power to them. ;) btw, get ready for really expensive orange juice (first Asian psyllid greening, then hurricanes to spread it, now this).
 
I don't get why so many people hate on NM so much. There is actually a lot of natural beauty in that state, and some great history.

It's sad that there is such a drinking problem on the reservations...

Anyways, what a crazy accident! hard to believe it without seeing that picture
 
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I don't get why so many people hate on NM so much. There is actually a lot of natural beauty in that state, and some great history.

It's sad that there is such a drinking problem on the reservations...

Anyways, what a crazy accident! hard to believe it without seeing that picture

You're right about that, it's a beautiful state. But it's not just the reservation with a people problem.
 
I don't get why so many people hate on NM so much. There is actually a lot of natural beauty in that state, and some great history.

It's sad that there is such a drinking problem on the reservations...

It's not hating on NM. I spent a couple of my formative years in Santa Fe, and if I could afford to, I'd move back there in a heartbeat, even given how much I love the Commonwealth. But anyone who has spent time out there knows how endemic drunk driving/walking/being is on the Rez. I'd argue that the cycle of poverty, insularity, and alcoholism is ultimately a mark against us palefaces. Like, if we're looked at with suspicion when trying to help, there might be a reason. That said, pretending the phenomenon doesn't exist isn't doing anything to fix it. The simple truth is that a lot of natives are drunk, fat, diabetic, and I suspect that this is because they have little to no hope for being otherwise. *shrug* Why that is is left as an exercise for the reader, but I suspect that it has little to nothing to do with genetics.
 
When you completely and absolutely decimate a culture while giving its people little to no realistic opportunity to assimilate into your society; When you break promise after promise-in an ongoing way- to help these people provide for themselves in this "brave new world" that you've thrust upon them, it takes alot longer than 130 years for their society to recover.
 
When you completely and absolutely decimate a culture while giving its people little to no realistic opportunity to assimilate into your society; When you break promise after promise-in an ongoing way- to help these people provide for themselves in this "brave new world" that you've thrust upon them, it takes alot longer than 130 years for their society to recover.

Additionally to that, when you then hand everything to some of the people on certain reservations, and give them no incentive to want to do anything for themselves, the result Boris speaks of also occurs. Of course, there are exceptions, such as reservations located in areas where there is little to no oppotunity to make a living such as many in the midwest and plains states, but I'm referring more to those reservations located next to urban centers, such as the Gila River, Salt River, and Tohono O'odham reservations next to the PHX and TUS metro areas, respectively. In these particular cases, there is ample opportunity to make a living, however a fair number simply choose not to, instead choosing the life Boris describes, while still blaming whitey for all their ills.
 
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But anyone who has spent time out there knows how endemic drunk driving/walking/being is on the Rez.
True, but the DWI problem isn't limited to the reservations. In my previous line of work, I've seen people from all walks of life getting popped for DWI. Most of them multiple times. This was in the ABQ metro area.

it takes alot longer than 130 years for their society to recover.
The white man didn't do them any favors, that's for sure. Their respective tribal governments aren't doing them any favors either.
 
The white man didn't do them any favors, that's for sure. Their respective tribal governments aren't doing them any favors either.

And that's also true. One thing about the reservations that I notice.......I work enforcement on the T.O. rez, and the spouse is an ambo paramedic on the GR rez.......is that there is next to no middle class. There truly are the tribal government indians who are the rich, and then there are the rest of the indians on the same rez who are mostly poor. Unfortunately, the tribal big wigs keep the poor down, by still blaming everything on the white man to this day, keeping a victim culture going, as opposed to giving any kind of motivation to their people to actually do the "self determination" that they always talk about. Also, they embezzle and engage in fraudulent schemes with money, additionally to keep themselves rich, while keeping their own people poor. You want a job on the GR rez, there's an indoctrination program to brainwash all as to how every tribal problem is because of the white man still, and racism against whites is what comes out of that, along with class warfare between the two major classes. EMS-wise, the main calls that come out, are ODs, drunk/disorderly, domestic violence, diabetic emergency, MVAs with DUI ETOH/drugs, and your regulars who think that an ambulance is their personal urgent care or personal pharmacy.
 
And that's also true. One thing about the reservations that I notice.......I work enforcement on the T.O. rez, and the spouse is an ambo paramedic on the GR rez.......is that there is next to no middle class. There truly are the tribal government indians who are the rich, and then there are the rest of the indians on the same rez who are mostly poor. Unfortunately, the tribal big wigs keep the poor down, by still blaming everything on the white man to this day, keeping a victim culture going, as opposed to giving any kind of motivation to their people to actually do the "self determination" that they always talk about. Also, they embezzle and engage in fraudulent schemes with money, additionally to keep themselves rich, while keeping their own people poor. You want a job on the GR rez, there's an indoctrination program to brainwash all as to how every tribal problem is because of the white man still, and racism against whites is what comes out of that, along with class warfare between the two major classes. EMS-wise, the main calls that come out, are ODs, drunk/disorderly, domestic violence, diabetic emergency, MVAs with DUI ETOH/drugs, and your regulars who think that an ambulance is their personal urgent care or personal pharmacy.

It's truly eye opening. I witnessed exactly what you are talking about with regards to the rich vs the poor. I did my paramedic internship mostly on the SRPMIC Rez,and while they have some very very nice government buildings and casinos,the rest of the Rez is very poverty stricken.


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