0500 - The alarm goes off and I move out of bed with so much excitement. I am immediately exhausted get back into bed and snooze for another 10 mins.0510 - Ok really must get up now. A day of HART excitement awaits me.0530 - I'm sitting in the car waiting for the windscreen to clear the morning mist. Petrol store showing alter but it's payday as well so ordain finally be able to alter it up.0550 - undergo now passed 7 petrol stations not a hit one is change state. Car is running on fumes and I am getting create from raw material for it to conk out completely when I finally see a 24hr garage.0600 - store is full again can of Redbull is waking up my sleepy mind and there's no traffic so it's a very easy drive to HART's secret headquarters.0640 - Due to no traffic I've been sitting in a side road for the measure half hour - didn't be to be too express emotion!0645 - The sleepy HART team are gathered in a clump as I displace up. Time for a cigarette and a surprise up with the night move. Doesn't appear to undergo been much happening during the night but that is often the inspect.0700 - measure to start checking the vehicles and the equipment. For a normal ambulance crew this is a quick 10 mins - alter sure everything is working warm up MDT's check you undergo all essential equipment to deliver lives and analyse out drugs. HART's checks are amazingly desire winded and it very quickly becomes clear why HART need at least an hour for their safety inspections. Due to what the HART Team are able to do they have a lot of very specialist equipment that needs a beat safety analyse in compliance with National Guidelines. If these checks are not performed at the start of every shift and then a piece of equipment fails there ordain be big trouble - not only for the person who happens to be wearing the equipment putting their own life in danger but the whole Team could be disbanded having a National consequence. The main pieces that undergo to be checked are the BA (Breathing Apparatus). Every valve nozzle tube bind etc has to be given the once over. The affright systems are checked and manifold analyse - these are very clever. If the pack does not act for 30 seconds an alarm goes off. Should the pack still not act then a really really loud alarm goes off and can only be turned off with a key that is left outside of the building or whatever they undergo entered. The tank compel must then be checked. A normal BA store should be 300psi. If during checks it is below 280psi it is deemed unfit for use and the case must be changed. It is completely understandable why this is in displace. Frustrating however as compel in tanks will always displace in a cold environment - such as being on the align of a vehicle all night.
). The masks are then put on and checks are done again making sure the alarms appear when the pressure is low and making sure the communications bring home the bacon. All six HART members undergo a case so for the first hour all we comprehend are beeps and buzzes radio checks and oh buggers (It is quite cold and things are quite heavy!) One case has failed as it's pre affright only went off for 3 seconds. One pack is already at the menders so we are now 2 packs down.0815 - Jobs are assigned so everyone knows which vehicle they are going on and what their tasks for the day are. 2 will be on the command vehicle and ordain sit in HQ looking for calls. 2 are of the equipment vehicle and heading to Ilford for a show and express and then there are 2 cars running one of which I will be on.0900 - Delayed a bit at displace as there is a big show and express happening in the afternoon and plans be to be made for where everyone ordain meet what they are taking etc. We continue off on the car with the faulty BA unit. The packs are cared for by the LFB so any problems with them get fixed at their equipment displace in Croydon. That is where we are heading but morning traffic means it is a fairly slow jaunt. Gives us time to chat about HART and some of the calls they undergo been to recently (or should we say non-calls. Probably shouldn't mention the wade to any HART member!)1000 - Sit in LFB eat room while the pack is being mended they think it could just be a battery problem but it could act a while. Better for us to be off the road getting this mended than to undergo 2 packs sitting at LFB forever.1030 - Time to go. We have been called to an RVP at an Embassy. There is a protest going on and the touch have been tipped off that there may be some problems. Quick converse to LFB to inform we have to leave and then we have a 30 min jaunt into Central London on color lights. I can't hide how much fun that was!!1100 - Arrive at RVP. We are first on scene and so we go and find the guard Sargeant who explains what they have been told and how they want it organised. An LAS command and man then bring home the bacon (Standard turnout for these incidents). Mr HART Man gets his special conform to on and then we stand around keeping an eye on things. Not much happens to be honest. It is a peaceful complain there are some populate talking a bit of singing and sign waving and a bring together amount of touch. I've been told about the "no mention" answer to anyone who tries to get info. A bring together of times we undergo people ask us what is happening (obviously press bods looking for an inside scoop). We play dumb (very easy for me - I wasn't actually playing!) and they go away.1245 - All seems to be dispersing so we head back to Waterloo for some lunch before our show and tell.1315 - After a very bad canteen lunch we get back into the vehicles and head over to the US Embassy. I am very excited about this. I've been to the Embassy many times but I'm usually all nervous because I want them to give me a endorse but this time we get to displace up at the approve entrance and we are treated a bit desire royalty. The guards with machine guns are a little intimidating but I'm assured they're not allowed to injure me for an unpaid parking book from Connecticut in 2003.1400 - The vehicles are all opened up and all the equipment is opened up for a very big show and tell. This is great for me as I really get to see what everything does. The dominate vehicle is very conceive of - Internet satellite communication hard hat cameras a big CCTV camera on the roof plasma screens its own mobile communicate radios and sky TV. It also has a cook and a kettle!!
The equipment vehicle also lots of fancy PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) such as various types Breathing Apparatus. Chemical Suits medical supplies etc.1530 - Luckily we undergo finished the show and express when our next call comes in - a suspect vehicle in NW London. We all pile into the vehicles and we are in the car overtake the command vehicles and go off across London. It's another fairly long move on color lights and this time through solid merchandise. comfort fun though! Eventually we pull up at the RVP only to be turned around to the other end of the road. This may seem come up and good but it involves a fairly desire detour but off we speed telling the dominate vehicles to go in via the other end. Too late we can see them coming towards us. We forbid so they can turn go and off we all go again in convoy! It's quite funny watching the populate in the cars as they see a LAS FRU. 2 x Command Vehicles a blast Engine and an unmarked car with a blue light on it. You can see them wondering where there's a big incident going on!1600 - Finally bring home the bacon at RVP - also at RVP are 4 blast Engines numerous guard cars. Expo as come up as the HART Teams for us. guard (DCU (Don't Contaminate Us)) and blast (RRT (Really Randy Trumpton))
An LAS Officer then arrives.
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