FDNY Strategic Plan 2025

I do care about both people trapped in fires AND ALSO those requiring EMS. I am a former Paramedic and was an EMT for 27 years in both professional and volunteer organizations. But the proper response for EMS is an Ambulance capable of transporting a patient or patients, not a fire apparatus manned by CFR trained well-meaning firefighters, limited by their ability to package AND transport sick or injured patients. We need more ambulances not having ladder companies or for that matter engine companies responding and then waiting for an ambulance to arrive.
Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired.
 
Cap, you are correct however it's a double-edged sword. Until the public stops using EMS as a taxi service or a "back door" into the ER to get faster service, things won't change. If they don't get what they want then the lawsuits start, and the ball keeps rolling. It's the "all about me" syndrome that really pulls the system down.
 
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