Most Wanted EMS Gifts?

[chaz90]

Ahh I c,, so you do not transport so to speak. You drive your suburban to the BLS rig, and Medic rides the BLS truck while the other follows in the SUV.

We used to be like that, and it saved a ton of money, but being that 2/3 of the BLS units in my area are still volunteer if they need to send a 2nd due truck a paramedic unit could be sitting on scene 20 minutes waiting for a transport truck. So it was axed for the chase MICU to be a transport truck in the event that you can transport if you really needed to.

Well, currently we drive our enormous Chevy 3500 or F-350 with attached squad body to the scene, but yeah, you caught the gist of it. In most cases we don't follow the BLS rig to the hospital either. We have a fairly large area to cover, so the single medic will stay in district for coverage and the BLS ambulance will return the transporting medic to the truck.

Politics here are such in the current climate that there's no way we could get a transporting ambulance. All 21 fire departments here are volunteer, but most have paid staff at the station at least during the day, and many at night too. This doesn't mean we sometimes aren't stuck waiting for a volunteer driver or waiting for a second emergency however. At one point early in the system's history we had a used ambulance as the medic vehicle, but we had to remove the stretcher from the back to placate the VFDs that we weren't trying to vulture their transports.