Taxis in the ambulance bay

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Last night I had a taxi blocking the entire ambulance turn around. I had to park in an unofficial space. The taxi finally parked in one of the ambulance spots. As we were walking to the ER doors I casually mentioned to the driver that his car didn't look like an emergency vehicle. Security was also no help. How often do you come to the hospital with a patient onboard and find a taxi parked in the ambulance bay?
 
We get taxis to take FFs back to their station when we take one with us if the Engine doesn't wanna follow us in. They are good about parking out of the way though, usually in LEO parking.
 
NVRob said:
We get taxis to take FFs back to their station when we take one with us if the Engine doesn't wanna follow us in. They are good about parking out of the way though, usually in LEO parking.
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I usually get the cops filling all the spots... but arent ambulance just glorified taxis? :P
 
Never, like others said it's usually cops.
 
Around here we have the same problem. Except they aren't "Taxis" in the offical sense, they are private transport companies. It grinds my gears when they park in the ambulance bay (which is a pull-through area for short-term unloading) and go up to a floor, leaving their truck to clog up the works.

/rant.

Anyway - it's a shame Security wasn't more helpful. Around here, they are usually good at chasing folks like that off when needed.
 
Happens around here so much that it's considered normal.
 
No taxis. Of course we only have like one taxi in the county so that could be part of it. The occasional police officer will park there but usually only when they have business just inside the ER. It's the private citizens who didn't get the "AMBULANCE ONLY" sign for that entrance that really annoy me. The doctors also park in the ambulance entrance but they're usually pretty good about staying in their spaces. They're terrible about not walking behind us while we're backing in though. You'd think that would be easier for them to understand.
 
At Parkland in Dallas, there's 2 lanes infront of the ambulance bay. One normal one, and one CLEARLY marked "Ambulances Only" with a couple of extra parking spots that say "Ambulances Only- All Others Will be Towed". It is common practice when an ambulance goes to Parkland that atleast one, if not several, idiots are stopped in the ambulance lane or parked in the ambulance parking. The ambulance will turn on their lights, bleep the sirens a few times, and after that if they don't move, PD gets involved.



I would always remind people that it was ambulance only areas, and if they got attitude, I got it right back saying either you move or I get one of those friendly looking officers to come on over.


I always enjoyed the people who would park in ambulance only parking, then get blocked in by 2-3 ambulances and they B*** and moan to the police... who would consequently write a ticket for the person who illegally parked in the ambulance only parking.



Without fail, you would see a tow-truck just sitting outside of Parklands ER area waiting to be called on over to tow a car away.
 
Personally never had that problem. But I know it has happened. Usually the hospital will take care of it by calling a tow company and having the taxi or whatever else it is towed.
 
Not so much taxis, but as others have said cops park in the ambulance bays all the time. One of the primary hospitals I transport to/from has a major problem with the staff parking their personal vehicles there too. :glare:
 
one of the hospitals i used to transport to on a daily basis is undergoing major construction and construction workers have been parking their vehicles in the ambulance spots, i definitely got onto the foreman about that one
 
At the hospitals I frequent the ambulances have separate entrances (driveways), and generally hospital public safety officers watching the ambulance bay at all times (to allow EMTs without hospital IDs in, prevent piggybacking, watch trucks left open by crews, deal with incoming combative patients, and protect ambulance spaces). They're actually quite good at these jobs.

While we often have trouble with police (and the vehicles county sheriffs acting as COs with inpatients), when taxis pull up to the ambulance bay, they are quickly shooed away by security. At a previous job, we had enough trouble with "homeboy ambulances"-- POVs driving up shooting or stabbing victims, who open the door, kick them out and drive away.
 
tssemt2010 said:
one of the hospitals i used to transport to on a daily basis is undergoing major construction and construction workers have been parking their vehicles in the ambulance spots, i definitely got onto the foreman about that one
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Whoa, bro. Too much info.

I usually just deal it, people are stupid and fire and PD are just ****s. I'll just park around them. I also, like blocking them in when I can. Sometimes, I gettired of PD pawning off their drunks on me.
 
emt.dan said:
At a previous job, we had enough trouble with "homeboy ambulances"-- POVs driving up shooting or stabbing victims, who open the door, kick them out and drive away.
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You have that problem too? I witnessed one this spring... came the wrong way up a one-way street with no lights, pulled into the bay, and nearly took out me and the other transport medic I was talking to. By the time I walked in the door with the 'victim' and alerted an incedulous staff, the other rig's EMT had already copied the car's tag and the driver left.

With friends like that.....
 
emt.dan said:
While we often have trouble with police (and the vehicles county sheriffs acting as COs with inpatients), when taxis pull up to the ambulance bay, they are quickly shooed away by security. At a previous job, we had enough trouble with "homeboy ambulances"-- POVs driving up shooting or stabbing victims, who open the door, kick them out and drive away.
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Homie ambulance saves me a lot paperwork grief,except, trauma transfers. The only people they piss off are the ER staff. Which, is fine with me. I love seeing the burnout nurses getting it shoved where the sun don't shine. I'll help sling those fine upstanding, pillars of the community, onto ER beds, just to see a burnout go insane.
 
VCEMT said:
Whoa, bro. Too much info.

I usually just deal it, people are stupid and fire and PD are just ****s. I'll just park around them. I also, like blocking them in when I can. Sometimes, I gettired of PD pawning off their drunks on me.
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i meant verbally, i dont play for that team lol
 
emt.dan said:
At the hospitals I frequent the ambulances have separate entrances (driveways), and generally hospital public safety officers watching the ambulance bay at all times (to allow EMTs without hospital IDs in, prevent piggybacking, watch trucks left open by crews, deal with incoming combative patients, and protect ambulance spaces). They're actually quite good at these jobs.

While we often have trouble with police (and the vehicles county sheriffs acting as COs with inpatients), when taxis pull up to the ambulance bay, they are quickly shooed away by security. At a previous job, we had enough trouble with "homeboy ambulances"-- POVs driving up shooting or stabbing victims, who open the door, kick them out and drive away.
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Considering security are not cops, if I was taxi driver I would ignore him/her. My answer to him/her would be if you got a problem call the police. The reason OP got no help from security is because they likely were ignore by taxi drivers.
 
Jon said:
With friends like that.....
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You know, if I got shot or stabbed, by all means bundle me up and deposit me in the closest ED. I'll probably be in the ED before the ambulance arrives anyways.
 
tssemt2010 said:
i meant verbally, i dont play for that team lol
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Verbally? As in with your mouth?

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