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EMS last - you wanna get killed or blown up ? if we get hurt then how can we help anyone else
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EMS last - you wanna get killed or blown up ? if we get hurt then how can we help anyone else
Its all situational. At the rural county service I run with Fire is only dispatched when there is a possible hazmat, 10-50, or fire in the city. EMD also dispatches them as manpower for known or suspected cardiac arrests. Police are dispatched for "Life Alert" tags in case forcible entry needs to be made into a residence.
In the outlying county vollie FD is dispatched as first response due to longer response times.
Ideally the decision to dispatch fire should be made on a case by case basis. EMS should be notified first on EMS calls.
I can't believe this is going on for so long. Try this one.. train your dispatchers to know when he should need to call both at the same time. The winner of the race can always cancel the other if need so be.
A structure fire call is not an EMS call.
1. What does a house have to do with this thread?
2. Not every patient is 450 pounds.
2.1 The hospital employees can always help move patients.
Working structure fires in this county get an ALS rig for rehab. I know, it DOESN'T make much sense, does it?
This has alot to do with this thread. Engines are a big help to EMS personal on scene, on scene the hospital employees cannot help you. Because atleast where im from the hospital staff....is busy in the HOSPITAL and are not going to show up on scene. When Im dispatched to the scene Im not told the patients size so in the common case of having a heavy set patient i like haveing atleast three poeple to help move them for those more bulky patients. I also agree the big red engine is very comforting on at a MVA.
If the house is on fire, it's primarily a fire department call, and thus out of the scope of this thread. Last time I checked, houses don't get sick and need the service of an ambulance. They do catch fire, but this thread isn't about building on fire.I believe a house is replaceable. a person is not!
I also believe fire apparatus should always fallow a ambulance for extra support. two EMTs cannot safely lift a 450lb patient.
Do people forget what they actually post? By the way, you still haven't answered what a HOUSE has to do with this thread.
If the house is on fire, it's primarily a fire department call, and thus out of the scope of this thread. Last time I checked, houses don't get sick and need the service of an ambulance. They do catch fire, but this thread isn't about building on fire.
How in God's holy name is that supposed to be interpreted as helping on scene? Where the hell else besides the hospital is the fire engine going to follow the ambulance?