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Ideas to prevent ambulances from going out of service
0:29:05
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Council Member Ariola inquires about additional strategies to keep ambulances in service, referencing a recent incident where a patient died due to nearby ambulances being out of service.
- Ariola highlights a case where a patient died of cardiac arrest from an asthma attack despite nearby ambulances being out of service
- She asks about preventive measures to avoid similar situations in the future
- Commissioner Tucker acknowledges the tragic incident and expresses his commitment to addressing such issues
- Tucker mentions a recent example where units were successfully moved from a fire scene to respond to a medical emergency on a nearby block
- The discussion sets the stage for exploring more innovative solutions to keep ambulances available for emergencies
Joann Ariola
0:29:05
Yeah, I would agree.
0:29:06
Coming from a hospital network that had a very busy ER and a trauma center and is backed up constantly, I could see how and I sort of physically witnessed that your EMT drivers were there just waiting around for their patient to be triaged and then told that they were going be admitted or whatever, and they then left.
0:29:27
So I think that that's very, very positive.
0:29:31
Are there any other out of the box ideas that the fire department can use to keep ambulances in service instead of being, know, taken out of service.
0:29:42
Like we had just at our last hearing, a father testified that his son died of a cardiac arrest from an asthma attack, and there were so many ambulances so close, but they were out of service because they were out of fire.
0:29:56
Yeah.
0:29:56
So how do we prevent that from happening in the future?