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We're not fire based either, both systems a hybrid, with a daytime paid ambulance and engine. Volunteers back up the day time and are primary at night and weekends. We usually don't get along but we've pounded this into their heads enoughThat's good to hear. Seems like the new push for respiratory disease/cancer related deaths to be LODDs probably has something to do with it.
We're not fire based so we really don't need personal gas meters.
They spend money oddly here. Don't wanna put a Rad on every ambulance but we got window breaker tools this summer...the rads were too expensive for every unit but there's talk of all 42 being retrofitted with the PowerLoad system. Just spent 5 mil or so on our new dispatch center but didn't change much as far as dispatching software.
We also have a large population who use stoves and ovens to heat their homes, and with the especially frigid winter we've been doing lots of CO calls, altered patients and other exposure type incidents. Our personal gas meters came out of a incident where a woman complained of lethargy multiple days in a row but always was fine at the hospital. We eventually got a detector from hazmat to find her furnace was leaking. If we had meters on first visit we would have detected this