I'm learning.

So I am learning quickly now that I am in day 6 (Already?!).
1) All males think the same, whether human or not.
2) The bigger the fire engine the smaller the rescuee (more on this another day)
3) Sleep light and run.

Iam back at the fire house  and spending another night here and responding during the night. Captain has been taken off his lead and is allowed to come out today (in other words, not been sent to help other people out) so I plan to be very involved.

There are a huge number of differences between their ambulances and ours. Here are a few;
In England, ambulances generally are big yellow trucks with blue lights and lots of noise. There is lots of room in the back and there is all the equipment that I need (well, normally). Here, they are white transit vans with something that says ambulance and has red flashy things and also make a lot of noise. This is where the simalarities end. Inside, there is barely enough room to move as the stretcher is there. The equipment is limited and has its money worth of use. Put it this way, sometimes here you have to take üse once" as "this is the first use for this patient. Next time we meet them we shall use another one."
Nothing is done in half measures aswell. If you are called out, it is genuine. So this is the capital for Peru. There is about 200 calls per day. Lets take another capital of another well known country. They recieve 6000 a day, and most don't need hospital.
That said, Peru ambulances still have better suspension.

Back to the day. Its only 7pm here so my day is just beginning. After many story swapping between me and captain, we end up at the station house. Captain has to fix the green monster (rescue unit) as it STILL has a hole in it. Although Captain is not due to work until 7, we are here. As I was wrtiting this we get a call... someone intoxicated. Some things never change!
So I am leaving you here and learning more spanish. Ishall update on the night tomorrow.

I shall leave one thought though. Los Bomberos are not heros, they are normal people who think they are spidermen (They all have webbing which they throw over a balcony and tie on for a quick escape).

Buenas noches.