Unlike their mainland counterparts, however, the Baywatch Paramedic team has much more extensive training. Each of the team members are fully-trained paramedics, a job designation that requires six months more training than the emergency medical technicians that work for Baywatch on the mainland. That added training, which most team members paid for out of pocket, includes three months in the classroom, one month in a hospital and two months on-the-job training with a paramedic unit. In the field, a paramedic designation gives the Baywatch team a better chance of saving a life. Responding via Baywatch "Call Cars", not only can they start intravenous lines and give medications, they can interpret the EKG of a patient having heart trouble and, if need be, they can intubate a patient who’s fighting for breath.