The first CPR I did in the back of the Wrightwood ambulance was in 1973 in the dead of a great snow year. We picked the patient up on Cedar just above the fire station and went to San Bernardino Community Hospital. Assistant Chief Steve Damon was driving and I was in the back of the low slung station wagon ambulance we had at the time. All I remember (other then having a sore neck from crouching over) was the bumper to bumper traffic from WW all the way to the freeway. Constant line of cars parked on both sides-some areas double parked and gridlock traffic. This was before Paramedics and it seemed like we were crawling. Steve put the ambulance on the center line and just kept us moving in the right direction. The one thing we did not have back then was the craziness on the local streets. Looking West from my Idaho home, my heart goes out to you all. There wasn't anything that was done about it fifty years ago and looks like being at the backside of two Counties and multiple agency jurisdictions has not changed the SNAFU that seems to occur when folks pass the 4,000ft sign on the way up. Like SkierBob said, you still have the weekend.
