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Thanks for the post, I've never thought to bring it up before. We are also dispatched to fires with our ambo. One house brings the engine with at least two and the other brings the ambo depending on the still. We carry irons and air packs with escape ropes attached. Not much room left for anything else. A question I have though is for those of you that are going to fires expecting to work is there another ambo called for ems or are you expected to come out and provide treatment if needed? This issue has been brought up many times for us. Often the ambo crew goes in, due to low intial staffing, then when we get the fire under control the ic will clear them up to go on an ems run right away. Also if ems is needed on scene we would have to provide that. They tried for a while to have us just stage our ems equip and stay out but that did not last very long due to the staffing issue. Just looking for some input on how you guys handle it.
Thanks,
Erbe
Thanks for the post, I've never thought to bring it up before. We are also dispatched to fires with our ambo. One house brings the engine with at least two and the other brings the ambo depending on the still. We carry irons and air packs with escape ropes attached. Not much room left for anything else. A question I have though is for those of you that are going to fires expecting to is there another ambo called for ems or are you expected to come out and provide treatment if needed? This issue has been brought up many times for us. Often the ambo crew goes in, due to low intial staffing, then when we get the fire under control the ic will clear them up to go on an ems run right away. Also if ems is needed on scene we would have to provide that. They tried for a while to have us just stage our ems equip and stay out but that did not last very long due to the staffing issue. Just looking for some input on how you guys handle it.
Thanks,
Erbe
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