Coverage area

[emt-b_wa]

WE cover 200 sq miles with one BLS crew of 2 and a crew of 2 medic/FF

[craig]

Because our country is so sparsely populated, rural areas are large. Our station has 3 full time staff on 7 day rotating rosters & our area covers approx 400-500 square kilometers. A lot of that area is only accessible via 4WD and we have specialist equipment for it. We generally have 2 on shift each day.

dont forget the rest phil

actually it covers more than that..........

stay safe

[jw-c152]

The region I work for is 2 590 square kilometers (1000 square miles) and has a population of approx 550 000 residents.

We have in the vicinity of 150 full-time paramedics and approx 100 part time paramedics (a mixture of Advanced Care and Primary Care paramedics ... which I guess would be EMT-P and EMT-I??)

We have 9 stations, of which 6 are urban and 3 are rural. On a day shift we have 18 ambulances to service the region as well as 4 Rapid Response Vehicles. At night time that number decreases to 14 with no RRV's. With the exception of 3 of the cars, we run with an ACP/PCP crew so all calls get an ALS response. Of course there are times when the ACP books off and the shift is filled with a 2nd PCP.

As far as number of calls, the latest data I can find about our region is dated a few years... in 2000 we responded to 38 185 calls for service throughout the region plus an addition 8 000 stand-by responses. Numbers are a fair bit higher now as the region has experienced quite a bit of growth.

As far as FD response to medical calls, we have a Tiered Response system where the FD is dispatched to certain medical calls, ex. VSA, Unconscious, CP, SOB, etc. However, the EMS system is entirely separate from FD and the FD has no paramedics working for them. Here, their role is to provide first response with O2, bleed control, CPR/Auto Defib if necessary prior to EMS arrival because there are many more fire halls than Paramedic Stations they often have a better response time.

So that's my story... and my first post!

[robmad87]

The fire station I work at covers about 90 miles of single lane mountain highways, the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa which are almost 14,000 ft elevation, 118,000 acres of open land in our district for wildland fires, and the largest island in the state for wildland fires. 75% of our calls are MVAs, the rest are medical and wildland.

[rat115]

Let's see... The county is 70 miles east to west and about 15 miles north to south. We have 5 sheds all with on call crews. The shed I run out of covers an area about 20 miles wide with 2 ambulances (one of which is used for Denver/CO Springs transfers). There are a total of 7 ambulance that run in the county. We're working on getting one more so that we have two here when there is a transfer in case of a MVC.

[Jeep_911]

With the one service we covered just over 2,000 sq miles. We always had 6 crews on call but whether we were all in our hall thats a different story...

[xselerate]

The area my "house" covers is about 11 miles long, by a mile wide at it's widest, but the patch on my arm says the "City of New York," which is a much larger area. Either BKone or FDNYEMT will take this one if I can't find out the geographic size of NYC.

309 sq mi (801 sq km) if anyone was curious about NYC.... while it may not seem like much FDNY EMS responds to upwards of 4000 (four thousand) calls a day (every day). On a slow day we may do 3100.... kind of makes thousands of sq miles look easy in comparrison.

[mrichmond]

We Cover a little over a 1000 square miles with one BLS unit and an all volunteer staff the are has around 1600 residents closest hopital from the hall 35 miles and its level 3.

[bbbrammer]

We have one truck to cover about 350 sq mi of service area-fully half of the county. All of it but about 6 blocks by 9 blocks is dirt road rural.

[Scaramedic]

We have one truck to cover about 350 sq mi of service area-fully half of the county. All of it but about 6 blocks by 9 blocks is dirt road rural.

What city in Oklahoma?? Or should I say town.