I serve on a two pump retained station and i can safely say that what we was told we would have to deal with, and trained to deal with, has somewhat been expanded ( with no refresher training).
Just to take a sample of the incident range, Bleeding following fisty cuffs,rectal bleeds,child births (mid-wife in attendance and ambulance requested for transportation)........
From what i gather from speaking to many ff's both WT & RT the feeling towards this scheme is mixed, my personnal opinion is that it is a great idea, but the fundamental problems ( as with most things in frs ) is funding & training.
Only last night on our drill night we had the great privallage of our dcfo out for his annual chat, and when this scheme was originally mentioned the local authourity ambulance service was going to be funding co responding at 3 stations but from what we was told last night and from the way i understood it, it is now funded by our frs.
As i said before, i think it is a good idea but it needs to be properly funded, ff's need to be properly trained, and maybe it could be introduced into role maps?
But hey hoe we strive on to protect the local community from the perils of fire.................oh and anything else that needs doing!!!
