New units for EMS

Quote from JebbyJnr

A suggestion for y'all to consider,

Now, I don't know about America or Europe, but in Australia, our ambulance service have paramedics with training for rescues (eg cliff rescues, sea rescues, etc.).

Thus, the first unit I am recommending is the "Special Operations" unit. We have highly skilled (and trained) paramedics that specialise in high risk and rescue operations including water rescue, cliff rescues, confined space rescues, etc. It would be great if we had missions to do with this (maybe a future update if Sebastian isn't too busy). It would make it more realistic if we had this sort of unit.

The second thing I am suggesting, is to be able to train "HEMS" paramedics to basically be the same as a special operations unit, just be faster (or could be needed in certain missions).

The third unit I am suggesting is a chief unit (or commander). These are used in medium - large scale incidents (in Australia) and could make the game more realistic. This unit could (maybe?) help medical crews finish faster (as they would be being directed by the commander).

I am aware and fully understand that A. It could be very difficult to code and B. Could be very different to everyone else's countries.

Feel free to add feedback/suggestions and thank you for taking the time to read this!

EDIT: If people like this idea, I will be more than happy to come up with some ideas for new missions related to it

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Funnily enough, I actually agree with every single one of those points, each one should fairly easily integrate with everyone's setups. Certainly from a UK point of view here. We can obviously do our usual renaming of units and everything would work well.
I do rather like the idea of 'special operations', I think there was the idea of doing an ambulance/rescue vehicle a while ago, however I prefer this idea. The only issue would be where this overlaps with the requirement for the heavy rescue on the fire side of things, maybe they could perform the same in-game function?
The HEMS paramedics requiring training would definately require a new 'Ambulance School'.
As far as I'm aware, I haven't seen any new in-game mechanic that allows for faster completion of incidents/treating other than just dumping more units on the incident and I believe this is a limitation as every suggestion along this line hasn't been very successful.

So actually on the list of future EMS updates that we are working on at the moment there are a couple of vehicles that would count as a heavy rescue. There won’t be any special training at the moment but it’s highly likely that there will be specialist trainings for rescue in the future such as possibly USAR, this may be possibly to expand into ambulance.

As for the training for HEMS. On the list there is training that will be available for HEMS crews that will speed up the treatment of patients. This would also be available for a new ground unit that would be available at HEMS bases and ambulance stations. This would be a critical care flycar. We have also toyed with the idea of making it required 40% of the time for “E” patients but I’m not sure how widespread these units would be and it would have to work for everywhere.

EMS Chief is something else that is on the list. This vehicle would count as a battalion chief unit and maybe required for mass casualty incidents.

Again, as with the critical care unit. I am unsure on different areas if they would have access to this and it has to work as best as it can for the majority.

I have started this thread to get a overall picture so this can be worked on: http://board.missionchief.com/…6-EMS-Special-operations/

It would be cool if the heavy rescue vehicle could do EMS runs and act as an ambulance until an ambulance gets to the scene if you don't have any EMS units available

Fire Units already begin treatment of patients. My guess is that an EMS Heavy Rescue would do the same.

I know this has been brought up before and probably won't happen because of them being combo units but how about the following,

Engine/Ambulance
Heavy Rescue/Ambulance

Rescue ambulance is on the list, engine ambulance probably won’t happen.

Somehow I knew you'd say that Lol

Quote from TACRfan

Rescue ambulance is on the list, engine ambulance probably won’t happen.

The Rescue ambulance is almost the same as a ALS unit in most citys .... I have seen a photo of engine/ambulance it will make the game to easy ... I have ask units before the game developer won't add combine units

The Rescue Ambulance would work On all sides of the world,The UK Have HART,The US Have Rescue Ambulances,Other countrys have them,EMS Supervisor I Could see working but it could be training required

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The Rescue Ambulance would work On all sides of the world,The UK Have HART,The US Have Rescue Ambulances,Other countrys have them,EMS Supervisor I Could see working but it could be training required

It's not only us in the UK benefit from such services, I suspect looking at other posts on the EMS Special Operations that similar sorts of systems are run worldwide and include the US making this definately a suitable suggestion for the game.