Firemonkey Madness in Las Vegas

[aussiephil]

The September 11th Attack on the World Trade Center was (hopefully) a once in a lifetime occurrence.

I agree Richard, but then we could also consider Oklahoma City. Another once in a lifetime. The point was there are one off events that happen that will overwhelm any cities resourses.

No disresect was intented to anyone.

However, the people of Kempsey said the same thing.

LOL; that brings up a legit question on my end. How do SES and ASNSW Rescue get along because aren't SES technically stealing work from the Rescue/SCAT teams? Any turf wars between the orange jumpsuits and ambos? (By looking at thier website it claims they provide vertical, RTA and technical rescue)

They get on fine because SES/VRA/Police Rescue/Mines Rescue do not want to take medical work away from us. What is interesting is that fire are not interested in vertical rescue, but want to selectivley choose what they do. Road rescue is the main one.

Now .... perhaps a look at Kiwi's Rules of Fire Based EMS 101 can prevent endless tail chasing

- The IAFF is out to steal medical runs and protect its members' jobs

- Many Fire Departments do not want medical runs, so up pops the local quicky warm body medic patch factory

- The IAFF/IAFC purport that response times matter and how they are able to best meet them, but because they do not really matter that is really null and void

- The IAFF/IAFC claim that Fire based ALS provides better outcomes, using some unreferenced studies from 1990 that are no longer relevant and out-of-context so again, null and void

- People (read: public and legislature) are stupid, and the IAFF/IAFC are increadibly powerful at lobbying and whipping up support for whatever they want .... and they usually get it!

Thus conculdes Fire Based EMS 101, thanks for watching and now, a message from our sponsor ....

The biggest problem is that if EMS are doing their job properly, they are on scene & gone relativley quickly. The patient need to be in hospital, not on scene or in the back of an ambulance. Fire are required to stay on scene for a lot longer, so, by the time the TV cameras arrive, who is left there? People want to see something on their TV so they film a Fire Truck. It gives people a false sense of who does what, but makes Fire look like the Hero's.

IAFF has 1 job & 1 job alone. They do it well, however, there needs to be fact put into any argument. As we have seen with threads here on The Golden Hour, the facts show us different to what was accepted as fact many years ago.

Facts do not support their arguments.

Edited February 26, 2010 by aussiephil