An article about a private EMS employee involved in an emergency vehicle fatality, which they admitted that they were at fault, gets only seven posts, three of which were mine. None of the usual haters were anywhere to be seen for this thread. I can only imagine the fallout that would have ensued if it were a FD driver involved.
http://www.emtlife.com/showthread.php?t=15428
Another article about a man who was run over by a FD ambulance (still alive, not dead like the other story). This was an accident (the crew does share some of the blame) to which the victim openly admitted (on record to an LEO) that he deliberately put himself in harm's way, and also reduced his profile, with the intent to remove himself from view of the responding crew. This thread received 56 posts, many of them for the purpose of fire bashing, or otherwise making the accident a fire dept thing, implying that if it wasn't fire based EMS then the accident would never have happened.
http://www.emtlife.com/showthread.php?t=15023
Obvious double standard, and these aren't the only two threads.
Here, have fun with this if you want.....
http://www.jems.com/news_and_articles/news/09/iaff_iafc_show_support_for_fire_based_ems.html
http://www.emtlife.com/showthread.php?t=15428
Another article about a man who was run over by a FD ambulance (still alive, not dead like the other story). This was an accident (the crew does share some of the blame) to which the victim openly admitted (on record to an LEO) that he deliberately put himself in harm's way, and also reduced his profile, with the intent to remove himself from view of the responding crew. This thread received 56 posts, many of them for the purpose of fire bashing, or otherwise making the accident a fire dept thing, implying that if it wasn't fire based EMS then the accident would never have happened.
http://www.emtlife.com/showthread.php?t=15023
Obvious double standard, and these aren't the only two threads.
Here, have fun with this if you want.....
http://www.jems.com/news_and_articles/news/09/iaff_iafc_show_support_for_fire_based_ems.html
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