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Curious if your department has a Surge vehicle and what you carry.
Working on a project and need some details.
Working on a project and need some details.
Surge vehicle as in an extra rig when all others are on calls or something else?
As @DrParasite said, NJ has the EMS Task Force. My agency has a portion of the field hospital, it is 3 19x35ft western shelter tents as well as a one of those SOVs in the slide show that hold 2 20x20 Western Shelter tents. These units come with HVAC, hot and cold running water, showers, sinks, chemical toilets, generators and everything we need to support the tents, all kinds of tools and other logistics equipment. If you have any questions PM me.Curious if your department has a Surge vehicle and what you carry.
Working on a project and need some details.
Fire in an assisted living facility or senior housing? even a smoke condition that fills up a wing or two, necessitating partial or complete evacuations?A large apartment building fire is probably the most resource intensive MCI that most agencies will face, especially in the winter.
Agreed.Fire in an assisted living facility or senior housing? even a smoke condition that fills up a wing or two, necessitating partial or complete evacuations?
I always think that most MCI vehicles are able to bring a whole lot of resources to the scene for I can get a huge amount of ambulances for transport. So if I have a commercial bus that hits an immovable object, or a train accident, or multiple unconscious patients at a mass gathering, I need some way to treat them before those 30 ambulances arrive.
If I just need to house non-injured out of the elements, I can request a transit bus from the bus company. When I think MCI, I am thinking I have more patients than ambulances, and need equipment at the scene before all of my mutual aid ambulances arrive (so I need to be able to set up triage and treatment zones, when M/A arrive, transport can just give them a patient and send them on their way).
Also keep in mind what gap you're trying to fill and something often overlooked, what timeframe-gap are you trying to fill?No, an MCI/special operations truck.