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City of Bend, Oregon / Bend Fire Rescue / 19 Dec 2018
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From YouTube: THE RACE TO THE MOUNTAIN

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Four minutes is not worth your life. That’s the amount of time you can save if you drive faster and pass people on the way to the mountain.
“Slow down. Chill out. Take your time. Have a good time. Come back safe.” – Alex McClaran, Firefighter, Paramedic, Bend Fire Department.
Big thanks to backyardbend.com @backyardbend #backyardbend for this awesome video.

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It feels so good, we all love it. We all do it.

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We all want to get some just get up there to the mountains and let her rip.

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Why do we find ourselves in such a hurry? Is it the froth or the amp?

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It's really not. That far.

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It's really close: it's such a simple drive. When we come back, we meet up with Alex McLaren, lifelong band, Oregonian and paramedic. He unveils the sobering truths about the mad rush up to the mountain.

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This video made possible by a partnership between the city of Bend and the Deschutes County Rural Fire District number two.

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Alex McLaren here then fire departments, paramedic fireman, lived in town since about 1984 used to ride bikes, a whole lot, snowboard skiing, having my family here so recently, you may have seen an Instagram post from the Bend Fire Department regarding people traveling onto the mountain kind of racing up there back and forth and I believe the post said something to the effect of it's, not race. You know slow down, get their visas and those are the standard safety bulletins.

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You hear them all the time, but the fact is accidents happen to other people, so to speak. We respond anytime, there's icy conditions up there, then Fire Department responds to the road to Mount, Bachelor everyday and sometimes their single vehicle, slide-offs non-injury and then sometimes they're. The real deal where people's lives are in danger.

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So, let's do the math: let's paint the picture of that stacked up Friday that stacked up Saturday, where it really is bumper-to-bumper traffic. I know everybody wants to get up there as soon as it himself from Mount, Bachelor village, all the way to the parking lot. It's 20 miles up there and as we've done the math just looking at some some rough numbers worst case scenario is still firstworldproblems. You get to drive 45 miles an hour up. The mountain I mean 45 miles an hour in 20 miles. Doing the rough math is 27 minutes.

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If you were lucky enough to go 55 miles an hour with no other traffic in front of you or if traffic flow is going 55, it takes 22 minutes to get up there. That's just still not a whole lot of savings. If you were able to drive 65 miles an hour at that point, it only takes you with it. 20 minutes or something like that. 19 or 20 minutes I think is 19. The savings are minutes in between those time intervals.

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So when you're talking saving 4 minutes or so at a time by bumping up 10 miles an hour, 4 minutes, are you kidding me come on think about it in four minutes? If you were able to make the past, which is never gonna, be safe in this conditions that you want to be there for, and you were able to consistently drive that ten miles an hour faster, you're saving, four minutes right less than five minutes, but four minutes is not worth your life ever.

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It's never worth your life, but we want to see everybody out there. We want to see you on the list. We want to see it restaurants afterwards, on our days off. We don't want to see in one of these, and it can happen like that. So we just really encourage slow down chill out. Take your time have a good time come back safe. We see out there.