11-22-2018, 09:30 PM
(11-22-2018, 04:09 PM)jamincan Wrote: Specifically comparing fire services, EMS, and policing, I believe fire fighters are the only ones who have 24-hour shifts. All other emergency services typically do 12-hour shifts as far as I know. While fire response is important, fire-related calls are probably the least frequent of all three services. The fact that fire services are so often idle means we are often falling back on them to respond to medical calls because EMS is so over-worked. The whole situation seems backward to me; we should be spending more to improve EMS and finding ways to reduce cost for fire services.
THIS.
Part of the problem is that fire fighters can only do a fraction of what medics can when it comes to medical calls. So they arrive and just hold down the fort. I mean it's better than nothing, but definitely not ideal.