Some of my younger (and they are all mostly younger) co workers laugh when I insist on chocking the ambulance when we are parked on a hill. I tell them that the only thing more embarrassing than coming out of a house with a patient and finding the ambulance has rolled down hill is watching the story on TV and reading about it in the papers the next day. You can be sure that this is the one time the media will spell your name correctly and the TV cameraman will most assuredly catch you in your dumbest pose.

No thanks, it takes about five seconds to place a chock block and saves hours of embarrassment.

Especially when children are climbing around in the truck and I don’t necessarily mean my co workers.

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Listen to the fire chief try to explain how the emergency brake just sort of became disengaged. You know, sort of like how a firearm just “goes off” when someone is mysteriously shot.

This is not the kind of publicity I particularly want for my service.

Remember the Second Rule of EMS,

You don’t want a rule named after you, because they don’t make rules when someone does something good.

Just saying.