Vela said Vi Pham's case is an extreme example of what can happen if children aren't properly restrained. The CHP has a hot line to report people driving without strapping their kids into car seats. Vela said Vi Pham's case haunts him. I've been a police officer 22 years, and I've seen a lot of things involving children. Perhaps this can be used to demonstrate what our job entails, and why we sometimes ask for changes and funds.
Local hospital is basically a stabilization point with some surgical support.
From our central station, if we have to respond to the extreme part of the county to cover for one satellite station, good road condition responses to scene can and do border on 40-50 minutes. Throw us off the main roads and we can see response to scene trips in excess of 60 minutes. We serve timber operations, mining operations, several national ski resorts, a slew of campgrounds and wilderness areas and several nationally popular caving areas. And a high concentration of senior citizens. On top of it, we average 40 inter facility transports a week in excess of 60 miles as the bird flies or 100-150 miles as the roads lie.