Thread: Vol Fire crew, who is one?

Originally Posted by sako75

Tell me about it. We are missing so many calls at the moment and get asked by the community why we weren't there to help them

i don't follow?
we are 30 mins from whangarei and have always done medicals that i am aware of. It's important for our community and we are happy to do it until the ambos can get there.
At the recent chiefs meeting they told our chief that we would trial the van thing but we will loose our appliance as we are a single appliance station (Aux actually). That doesn't seem to make sense to me as at a guess half to 60% of our calls are medicals so what do we do in the situation of a fire with half the equipment. I totally agree a dedicated medical vehicle would be very useful on medical calls but at the expense of an appliance, best to have one each. That and what is the benefit of have a bed in the vehicle? We have never used the stretcher we have on our appliance and it has been stated we are not to transport patients so what's the point? It has been a fairly up and down topic for us as a while back st johns were using us a lifting help returning patients home from hospital to. They would send a single ambo officer and turn us out to assist to get the patient inside. that didn't last too long thankfully, they were given the cease and desist.