Your average respionse to a medical call?

[Engine 101]

In the City of Monrovia, a 911 call for medical aid will dispatch a Paramedic Squad and a fire engine. This provides six firefighters to the scene of a medical emergency, this meets the minimum requirements of an emergency medical response

What would be your department's avergae response for an EMS Call?

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Engine101
Tim Macias
TimMacias101@Firehousemail.com
I will fight fire for Electricity

[Lewiston2Capt]

My Dept will send a BLS ambulance with 3-5 people. If ALS is needed you will get another ambulance with as many people as they can fit. If enough manpower is still at the station we man a rescue crew until our ambulance is back in service.

[Adler]

We are a volunteer squad that responds with an BLS rig on every call, unless it is a cardiac or medical unknown, then the medic goes along to run ALS. We have one medic that is on-call day and night for nothing but ALS. But they also can go on BLS calls. They are not limited to only ALS calls.

[DCFyrMdc]

It depends on the call, but basically the rule of thumbs is:

ALS call - 1 medic, AND
1 ambulance OR 1 engine depending
on who is closer, OR

You might also see 1 engine if its in there own first due, 1 ambulance if closer than the ALS unit and 1 medic.

BLS call - 1 ambulance, OR
1 medic if it is closer and
1 ambulance if within the first 5
dues

CPR call - 1 medic, AND
2 BLS units, either 1 ambulance
and 1 engine OR 2 engines

Hope this helps.


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Christopher Suprun, FF/NREMT-P
Dale City VFD/Batt 4-13

[benson911]

Our Shift Commanders determine the level of response based on the information we get from dispatch. Usually, One EMS unit with a minimum of one Emt and one Paramedic. If it comes in as a CP, Diff Breathing or Unresponsive they will usually include an engine with the Medic unit.

So, it all comes down to a Shift Commander (they're all EMT's, not Medics) deciding who goes. It's far from ideal, but it's how we've always done it. Anyone heard that one before?

[RFDEMT107]

I work in Southern New Hampshire for two Squads.
For the town we respon to all medical call with a Rescue, no less than 2 EMT's. Our Chief, or OIC, will respond right to scene. Once the Rescue rolls, all other EMT's go to scene, so we can have any number of EMT's then. We also automatically start an ambulance (BLS or ALS depending upon shift), usually 3 EMT's.
For the school we have night shift for one or two EMT's. Then we call for mutual aid as needed.

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B. Stark, EMT/FF
Rindge Fire/Rescue

***These are my personal opinions and not that of my Dept.***

[EMT832]

In Teaneck for regular calls we respond with one BLS ambulance which can have minimum of two maximum of four EMTs. The ALS in New Jersey is hospital based, so for ALS calls we have two paramedics respond in an SUV and at least one will transport with the ambulance if they are needed.
In the event that all three of our in service ambulances are busy, the Teaneck Fire Dept. responds with an engine(3 first responders or EMTs) and the rescue(2 or 3 first responders or EMTs).

[emtwannabe]

I am not a paid member of our county's ambulance service yet so I am not positive, but I am thinking that our rural area gets a minimum of one paramedic and one other,whether it be an intermediate or basic, whoever is working with the paramedic at the time, of course, the ambulance, and as many of our volunteer EMT's who can respond. When the officer in charge gets on scene, he decides based on the number of personnel and the seriousness of the call whether to cut any further back to routine or to cancel them. The ambulance and staff still come, no matter what. That is not to say we always transport. One day the ambulance that "lives" at our vol fire dept had four calls and four refusals. I do believe that was a record, at least for that crew. Hope this helps.

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GOD is my Medical Director and JESUS is my EMS crew chief.

[BFD847]

For my full time department we send
ALS amb with two medics
Engine with three medics

My part time job for a hospital based ALS service one ambulance two medics.

[18f17]

We send one engine with 2 emts and 1 paramedic.

The private company sends one ambulance with either 2 medics (most common) or 1 medic and 1 emt.

Only in unusally busy times does an ambulance with 2 emts get used for an emergency call.

[tlfd600]

Well I work for the hospital based EMS service in my area. In city limits every call gets a Mobile Intensive Care Unit and a Paramedic engine Company. In the County we get Volunteer first responders that are primarly BLS with a few being ALS. If it is toned out as a major MVA on a major road then the shift supervisor will respond, also the operations manager is good about responding on major calls to asume IC even if it is after business hours.

[rchildress]

On all calls, cardiac arrest or fall, two medics on one ambulance. An engine can be called for backup with three emts.

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[APG1]

We respond with a single rescue squad, with a paramedic and whoever else makes it to the station. The ambulance comes from big townabout 12 minutes away. The only downside to this whole setup is, our town now cannot open a home based ambulance service because of the paramedic on every call. All transports have to be done ALS.

[AlexB892]

For any medical call, the dispatcher will designate it as ALS or BLS (usually ALS unless they're sure it's minor). For an ALS call we will send an Engine (1 EMT-P or CCT, 3 EMT-Bs) and a Medic Unit (2 EMT-Ps). If a BLS Ambulance is close then they may be sent also, depending on the situation. A BLS call usually gets one Ambulance, but if any other unit is closer then they will be sent as a first responder as well.

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My opinions are not necessarily those of my department. I speak only for myself.