Over kill response by first responders
Yesterday my 80 year old Vietnam Veteran neighbor had a medical emergency and called 911 late in the afternoon. EMS and FFD have been there many times to pick him up and shuttle him to the hospital. My wife called me from the back 40 and said there's a fire truck here. When I get to the front yard, a ladder truck with 4 guys, and ambulance with 2 guys and 4 cruisers with one officer in each, converge on the road. You might have thought there was a terrorist in the back yard.
This has been a gripe of mine for 20 years. Why so many employee's of the Town have to show up for a simple patient transfer to the hospital is wasteful imo. Mind you, the patient walked out of his home with the aid of his walker to the ambulance.
To make matters look even more wasteful, all the cops had a parlay for about 15 minutes and stayed for over 30 minutes just shooting the breeze.
I still see very little justification for a ladder truck with personal to go to each ambulance call. And there is no need for 4 cruisers to show up either, especially in this part of Town.
posted by Jim Pillsbury @ 12:19 PM
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3 Comments:
How is your neighbor doing now? I wonder why you are more focused on the number of people responding than you are on the well being of your neighbor
He's a combat veteran and doing fine and on his way to rehab like before and hopefully will be home in a few days, like before.
Perhaps I missed getting the point out... while the cops had no role in his ambulance ride, all 4 were not on the road patrolling our streets during the time they hung out at the address. The ambulance and fire truck had left already.
No wonder we have such high overtime expenses on the FPD. Who was patrolling the streets of Framingham while they hung out in some driveway for 20 minutes shooting the breeze
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