So I want to tell a story about what happened on shift yesterday. Here's the background, I work for a Rural/Urban interfaced Fire district, We cover about 200sq miles for fire coverage and 600+ sq miles for ems transport coverage with our rescues. We respond at the same time and are special called by the medium sized nieghboring munincipal department and 2 other nearby fire districts for ems/transport.
So around 1200 in downtown E701 gets dispatched to a 19y/o female cc of dif breathing/vomiting/constipation. E701 arrives on scene approx 1204 at 1207 they call for a rescue code 3. At that time we were busy and our nearest rescue/ambo R327 was 10-12 min out. at 1212 a 3-1 apartment fire gets dispatched about 2 miles from E701. But they are on a call so they didnt get dispatched obviously.................But they pack up and leave an tel the patient that the rescue/ambo is on the WAY!!!! 7 minutes later the rescue arrives on scene!!!!!!
If I am not mistaken this is ILLEGAL and obviously morally unethical and just flat out unacceptable.
What would you guys do as far as reporting this?
What could possibly happen to the medics on the truck?
Obviously the Capt. may be in some trouble.
I do believe the medic on that rescue did or is gonna call Department of Health Services and report it.
We let our Battalion Chief know and not sure what he is gonna do.
So around 1200 in downtown E701 gets dispatched to a 19y/o female cc of dif breathing/vomiting/constipation. E701 arrives on scene approx 1204 at 1207 they call for a rescue code 3. At that time we were busy and our nearest rescue/ambo R327 was 10-12 min out. at 1212 a 3-1 apartment fire gets dispatched about 2 miles from E701. But they are on a call so they didnt get dispatched obviously.................But they pack up and leave an tel the patient that the rescue/ambo is on the WAY!!!! 7 minutes later the rescue arrives on scene!!!!!!
If I am not mistaken this is ILLEGAL and obviously morally unethical and just flat out unacceptable.
What would you guys do as far as reporting this?
What could possibly happen to the medics on the truck?
Obviously the Capt. may be in some trouble.
I do believe the medic on that rescue did or is gonna call Department of Health Services and report it.
We let our Battalion Chief know and not sure what he is gonna do.