- Sunday March, 16 2014 @ 20:57:07Nature: Emergency UnknownCity: Salisbury
- Sunday March, 16 2014 @ 18:38:07Nature: Unconscious SubjectCity: Salisbury
- Sunday March, 16 2014 @ 17:56:34Nature: InjuryCity: Salisbury
- Sunday March, 16 2014 @ 15:50:08Nature: Natural CoverAddress: 808 N Salisbury Blvd Salisbury, MD 21801
- Sunday March, 16 2014 @ 14:44:59Nature: Sick SubjectCity: Salisbury
- Sunday March, 16 2014 @ 12:39:31Nature: Difficulty BreathingCity: Salisbury
- Sunday March, 16 2014 @ 12:39:29Nature: Difficulty BreathingCity: Salisbury
- Sunday March, 16 2014 @ 10:32:13Nature: Subject FallenCity: Salisbury
- Sunday March, 16 2014 @ 10:29:16Nature: Sick SubjectCity: Salisbury
- Sunday March, 16 2014 @ 04:02:59Nature: SeizureCity: Salisbury
- Sunday March, 16 2014 @ 03:51:23Nature: Altered Mental StatusCity: Salisbury
- Sunday March, 16 2014 @ 01:43:23Nature: Diabetic DifficultyCity: Salisbury
- Sunday March, 16 2014 @ 00:30:32Nature: Difficulty BreathingCity: Fruitland
- Sunday March, 16 2014 @ 00:24:12Nature: Emergency UnknownCity: Salisbury
10 comments:
This is not a fire department. It is obvious that the EMS Division is carrying the fire department.
It should be called Salisbury Emergency Medical Services.
Joe the fire department is being dispatched to send a fire truck on every (EVERY)single ambulance call. They are using the snow as an excuse to justify the paid firemen's jobs. The streets are clear and there is nothing a fire engine can do for the ambulance crew. What a waste of tax dollars sending a fire truck with paid firemen on every ambulance call.
It's not the streets! It's the driveways, sidewalks, steps, and yards. Imagine the lawsuit if a patient is dropped, or worse yet the lost time and medical costs for an inured worker.
You should also remember the Salisbury EMS crews only consist of a crew of 2. The engine crew is there to protect the City from liability. Extra hands always very useful.
Anonymous said...
It's not the streets! It's the driveways, sidewalks, steps, and yards. Imagine the lawsuit if a patient is dropped, or worse yet the lost time and medical costs for an inured worker.
March 17, 2014 at 5:02 PM
Send a second ambulance. Problem solved.
Make the patient walk. Ninety percent of the patients don't need an ambulance anyways.
BTW how did the ambulance crews do it for many years before the fire crews started self dispatching for job security. Face it, it is for job security only.
Anonymous said...
You should also remember the Salisbury EMS crews only consist of a crew of 2. The engine crew is there to protect the City from liability. Extra hands always very useful.
March 17, 2014 at 6:05 PM
More damage control!
Send a second ambulance. Problem solved.
Make the patient walk. Ninety percent of the patients don't need an ambulance anyways.
BTW how did the ambulance crews do it for many years before the fire crews started self dispatching for job security. Face it, it is for job security only.
Now what liability would that be? Does the engine crew go on all police calls to protect the city from liability?
Does the engine crew help public works on all their jobs to protect the city from liability?
Does the engine crew go out and help the meter maids to protect the city from liability?
Does the engine crew go out and help the roads crew to protect the city from liability?
Does the engine crew go out and help the garbage men to protect the city from liability?
Does the engine crew go out and help the IT guy supply free internet on the plaza to protect the city from liability?
Does the engine crew go out and help code compliance do their inspections to protect the city from liability?
Does the engine crew go out and help the mail man to protect the city from liability? Does the engine grew go out and help Jim Ireton and Tom Stevenson get to work to protect the city from liability?
After all an extra set of hands are always useful.
Please cite the source for your liability issues that requires a $500,000 fire engine and $250,000 salaried engine crew to respond on all ambulance calls.
Please tell us where that rule is.
No the Salisbury Fire Department is being dispatched to meet an ambulance at the hospital to help unload a patient. WTH PRMC is one of the biggest employers on the Eastern Shore and they can't send a couple of employees out the door to help with their patient. Once that ambulance turns into their property that patient is theirs.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
It's not the streets! It's the driveways, sidewalks, steps, and yards. Imagine the lawsuit if a patient is dropped, or worse yet the lost time and medical costs for an inured worker.
March 17, 2014 at 5:02 PM
Send a second ambulance. Problem solved.
Make the patient walk. Ninety percent of the patients don't need an ambulance anyways.
BTW how did the ambulance crews do it for many years before the fire crews started self dispatching for job security. Face it, it is for job security only.
March 17, 2014 at 6:57 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
You should also remember the Salisbury EMS crews only consist of a crew of 2. The engine crew is there to protect the City from liability. Extra hands always very useful.
March 17, 2014 at 6:05 PM
More damage control!
Send a second ambulance. Problem solved.
Make the patient walk. Ninety percent of the patients don't need an ambulance anyways.
BTW how did the ambulance crews do it for many years before the fire crews started self dispatching for job security. Face it, it is for job security only.
Now what liability would that be? Does the engine crew go on all police calls to protect the city from liability?
Does the engine crew help public works on all their jobs to protect the city from liability?
Does the engine crew go out and help the meter maids to protect the city from liability?
Does the engine crew go out and help the roads crew to protect the city from liability?
Does the engine crew go out and help the garbage men to protect the city from liability?
Does the engine crew go out and help the IT guy supply free internet on the plaza to protect the city from liability?
Does the engine crew go out and help code compliance do their inspections to protect the city from liability?
Does the engine crew go out and help the mail man to protect the city from liability? Does the engine grew go out and help Jim Ireton and Tom Stevenson get to work to protect the city from liability?
After all an extra set of hands are always useful.
Please cite the source for your liability issues that requires a $500,000 fire engine and $250,000 salaried engine crew to respond on all ambulance calls.
Please tell us where that rule is.
March 17, 2014 at 7:06 PM
Crawl back under the rock from which you came please. All it takes is a misstep by one of the crew members allowing the patient to fall off the stretcher to bring the city to it's knee's in this sue happy society. The city would be just as liable as the crew that drops the patient off the stretcher. In answer to your question about sending two ambulances. Think about that for a second. There are more than 30 thousand residents served by Salisbury EMS and only 5 EMS units to cover. Taking a 2nd EMS unit would not be conducive to the citizens when there are roughly 2 dozen pieces of fire apparatus and not very many fire calls within the Salisbury Fire districts.
"All it takes is a misstep by one of the crew members allowing the patient to fall off the stretcher to bring the city to it's knee's in this sue happy society."
So you're saying the City doesn't carry liability insurance like every other municipality?
False, that patient belongs to the ambulance crew until it is physically off their stretcher. Know your facts.
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