Although most of the operations of the Central Park Medical Unit include back-end administration and the actual tours where we respond to 911 calls, there is a side that I had yet to fully experience before this week. Every single time we take out one of the ambulances on a tour we do an equipment check (known as the 800 check as that is the part of the New York Public Health code that dictates what has to be carried on an ambulance). This requires the crew to lay eyes on every piece of equipment that they could need throughout the days. This particular weekend, the tasks was to remove every item in the ambulances, clean every surface with bleach, remove/discard extra, extraneous, and expired stuff, and put it all back in. The original scope of the project was to begin at 10:00 am, do the first two ambulances, switch one of them out for the crew that was on duty, and then do that ambulance (saving the one that was in the shop for another day) all before 12:00 pm. After completing the first ambulance at 1:00 pm it became clear that we were only going to get through the two that were out of service for that day. This experience helped very much clarify how big of a job this actually was and what it would take to get through the next two, the Unit bikes, ATV (gator), and fly car.