ALS Transport Feasability Study

[firemedic1]

I am looking for information about how to go about doing a feasability study for fire based transport. This is just for myself so it is not really critical time wise. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Ledbelly]

Firemedic...not really sure what you mean by fire based transport...? We also run EMS for city so I guess that's fire based? (We have 5 ambulances at certain stations with two reserve.) City of Odessa Texas recently shut down a couple of their ambulances and made all engines ALS...they call ambulance for transport if/when they need it. Haven't seen any of their members on here but you could probably write or call them, I "assume" they did some kind of feasibility study to justify the change in their response. Hope this helps...I can tell you more about our system if ya need it...LW

[Resc10]

Hey firemedic1, There is a volunteer department here in my county that 3 years ago got into the EMS transport business. They went through the entire process of specing EMS transport units to hiring career staff and working out a volunteer schedule for thier EMS providers... The coordinator for that department is Alan Matheny, and I am sure he wouldn't mind helping you out, as he and his department has gone through all of this. Tell him I referred you... His screen name is Para269 @ AOL.com... The department is The Vol. Fire Co. of Halfway MD., and they can be reached at (301) 582-2223. Hope I helped.