Coverage area

[Guest]

We have 1819 SQ miles in our county, there are 2 ambulances that cover the majority of the county. 1 ALS ambulance in the western part of the county that you might as well says covers the whole county... (The BLS crew has a fit when ALS is on a call and can't save their butts!) The BLS service has 2 ambulances and our ALS crew has 2 but only one is staffed.

[nwoparamedics]

How does 207,000 square miles sound?

Actually, we use 21 vehicles, with roughly 100 PCP's, 8 bases, lots of volunteer First Response Teams and of course, the provincial medi-vac system (fixed wing/rotary) to cover our district as it is roughly the size of France.

Needless to say, extremely long transport times to the communities with road access, and the only way in or out of the remote communities is by air so the air medics do those communities in our district.

[Chrisemtff]

482 square miles, roughly 40,000 residents. 2 ALS trucks staffed with Medic/EMT team. The exciting news is a helicopter service is going to make our county its newest base to fly from starting in December.

Chris

[Guest]

Our county is 1296sq miles with a population of 40,523. We run two front line ambulances with Medic/Medic teams one in a community 7 miles to the west and one in the county seat. A second out ambulance staffed by paid on call and the supervisor on duty. and finally three stand by trucks for call back. We have 15 full time medics and a part time squad of about fifteen to twenty EMT-B's and I's. we also provide Mutual aid to the surrounding counties and transfers ranging from 50 miles to 400 miles. In addition we also provide event coverage for the local dirt track , college and high school football games, college and pro rodeo events.

[ERDoc]

My county is 912 sq miles with a population of 1.5 million. We have about 100 volunteer FDs and VACs with thousands of members. Some ALS companies, some BLS companies. Probably close to 1 billion dollars in equipment. We also have several private companies that do NH transports and renal round-up. Even with all of this, we still have problems getting ambulances out to calls. It amazes me that those in the rural areas are able to provide such good service when some of us in the not so rural areas are having trouble. Keep up the good work everyone.

[scsaemt207]

WE cover approx 2,000 sq miles, with only bls crews. We run 2 full staffed crews with capacity for two more if needed. Plus, an extrication and rescue team. We have about 37 members on our service, and medstar (als helo) is our best friend.

[BlackSheep]

Our county is approx. 550 square miles. We have paid medics 0600-1800 Mon.-Fri., volunteers after wards. Some volunteer crews from other squads run till 1200, some till 0600, and many respond from their residence. On any given night there is at least 1 duty crew-ALS or a BLS crew usually w/a tech, plus we have mutual aid w/the surrounding counties and air support. Our closest hospital a Level 1 trauma center w/over 500 beds is approx. 35 miles away. Our county has just implemented a paid night medic who stands by at a centrally located FD. FD's handle all extrication. My particular squad has 4 I's, 1 CT, 1 ST, and 2 J's and 18 EMT-B's, we cover the county 7 nights a week and during the day on weekends.

[bandaidpatrol]

In 1964 we were one of only two actual ambulance services in a three county region. Don't know the size. Sure there were other funeral homes, but none operated a unit as just an ambulance.

I'll have to check on the square mileage.

[aussiephil]

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.

[bandaidpatrol]

According to old billing records in my cellar, 70 cases of them, have to keep them for 30 years (life time of a casket is 30 years) :? ...

We covered 17 villages or boros, 23 Townships in 6 counties, for a total area of 2,174 Sq. Miles. And had only two hospitals available in that whole region that had Emergency Rooms. We also had the choice to take the victims to seven doctors home offices. The main highlight of our service was that we were the only funeral home with an oxygen equipped ambulance. 80% of our call volume was to set up an oxygen tent, or to respond with the resuscitator. I recall a 150 mile trip to take a premature infant to a hospital, just because the local ambulance didn't have a big enough oxygen tank.