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| What a Crazy Place to Patrol |
Week 7 was when I got to see
what the night shift here at Yosemite has to deal with in a daily basis. On Monday we started the day off
with an overbooked campsite, giving the visitors an option to stay in another
site. Later on I was able to try helping with the walkout of some visitors on
the mist trail. Sadly, we took a shortcut which caused us to miss the group but
it is still good experience and something which will help me to get my Search
and Rescue Certification. On Tuesday we
started the shift out with a medical, which needed the ambulance and some help
from the great staff at the clinic. After that we ran radar in areas of the
park where people are most likely to speed and were able to help educate some
visitors on the problems with speeding. Later on that night we looked for
someone who was causing a disturbance in one of the campgrounds. On Wednesday the night started out
slow but then ended with a DUI arrest which gave me more time seeing the
booking process and how it works
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| A View of a Slow Day |
in the park. It also caused us to be stuck in
the jail watching the guy we caught since they do not have enough staff to keep
a jailer on every hour of the day. Thursday I
was back on day shift and lucky enough for us it was a very quiet day and
everyone seemed to be complying with the speed limits and vehicle codes. On Friday my roommates and I
attempted to go visit San Francisco for the day, that was far from what
actually happened. Our car broke down on the bridge before we were about to
enter the city. This left us stranded in Oakland because we didn’t know when
the car was going to be repaired. We did our best to stay busy throughout the
day and saw some interesting things in Oakland. At 6pm when
the repair place was closing we took it for a test drive because they claimed
it was fixed, but it broke down right around the corner of the repair shop. One
of my roommates was very resourceful and was able to get us a free place to
stay in University of
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| A Group Photo From out Lunch Spot |
California Berkeley. We spent the next morning walking
around the university and seeing what the surrounding area looked like, and got
some delicious food. The car was finally fixed at 11am on Saturday and we drove back to
the valley. During the entire trip we compared the stuff that was going on to
something that would happen in the TV show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
That is the reason this blog got the name that it has.
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