I'm soon to be on-call 24-7. I recently joined the local volunteer search&rescue team, and am still going through the process of getting all the training/certification I need, so I'm not yet a full-member. After March I'll have the basic cert. and be issued a pager.

I've mentioned my concerns about response-time and bike-commuting but it didn't seem to be a major issue. I'm still not sure quite how I'll handle it if I get a page on a commute-day. Will they tell me to not bother if I call in and say I can be there in 1.5 - 2hrs (My commute takes me an hour, and I'd have to ride home and retrieve my gear before going to the staging area, which is about 20 minutes, by car, from my house.)?

One of the other new team-members lives nearly an hour and a half away, and they approved him for membership. It sounds like it usually takes quite a while to get the team organized and deployed, so for us new guys who are mainly going to be muscle and not running ops, perhaps response time isn't quite as critical.

Perhaps there's someone on the team who works or lives near my work, that I could grab a ride with in those situations. That's something I'm going to look into. I'm pretty new to all this so I guess I will soon find out how it's going to work out.

-Trevor