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Sometimes they do. This is why both fire and ambulence are dispatched to accidents. Would you like me to start sending you all the nasty images from accident sc

Sometimes they do. This is why both fire and ambulence are dispatched to accidents. Would you like me to start sending you all the nasty images from accident scenes that my EMT brother gets to go to? I find it fascinating how quickly he's able to go from bouncing off the walls to stoic when he gets a single car accident call. They're never pretty.

wavefunction 13y ago
>>This is why both fire and ambulence are dispatched to accidents. I don't think you can make that claim necessarily. Firetrucks get dispatched for people experiencing health emergencies as well as ambulances just because they are often able to respond more quickly than EMTs. I know this from talking with my firefighter friends and experiencing it first hand with relatives that have passed. Also firetrucks were always being dispatched to a retirement home where I grew up, not because there were fires or a likelihood of explosion.
- mindcrime 13y ago
  It varies by jurisdiction. Some fire departments provide both fire protection / fire suppression and emergency medical response. Others do only fire. But even departments that are "fire only" (like the department I was with) are dispatched to most car accidents due to the fire risk. 50 times out of 100 we got there, did a quick size up, found no risk of fire, and returned to quarters, but on the more serious crashes, we would stay on scene while the medics were working. If there was someone pinned in a vehicle, we would pull a 1-3/4" handline and charge it and keep it in place in case anything happened during the actual extrication process.
  - FireBeyond 13y ago
    This, seconded by a current firefighter / paramedic. Any fluid leaking from the vehicle would cause us to charge a line. And was needed for suppression on multiple occasions.

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Sometimes they do. This is why both fire and ambulence are dispatched to accidents. Would you like me to start sending you all the nasty images from accident sc

by adestefan 13y ago

wavefunction 13y ago
>>This is why both fire and ambulence are dispatched to accidents. I don't think you can make that claim necessarily. Firetrucks get dispatched for people experiencing health emergencies as well as ambulances just because they are often able to respond more quickly than EMTs. I know this from talking with my firefighter friends and experiencing it first hand with relatives that have passed. Also firetrucks were always being dispatched to a retirement home where I grew up, not because there were fires or a likelihood of explosion.
- mindcrime 13y ago
  It varies by jurisdiction. Some fire departments provide both fire protection / fire suppression and emergency medical response. Others do only fire. But even departments that are "fire only" (like the department I was with) are dispatched to most car accidents due to the fire risk. 50 times out of 100 we got there, did a quick size up, found no risk of fire, and returned to quarters, but on the more serious crashes, we would stay on scene while the medics were working. If there was someone pinned in a vehicle, we would pull a 1-3/4" handline and charge it and keep it in place in case anything happened during the actual extrication process.
  - FireBeyond 13y ago
    This, seconded by a current firefighter / paramedic. Any fluid leaking from the vehicle would cause us to charge a line. And was needed for suppression on multiple occasions.