Posts by leutmatho

Quote from Ericssons147

I can almost say it’s not, no plane rather it’s US military including the USCG, private, commercial, another pilots fly over water all the time for many different reasons, non need a second aircraft, same with helicopters. Someone can like always correct me if I am wrong.

I had a feeling I heard this when watching tv

If you watch the first few minutes he mentions that the c-130 is there to provide comms support and SAR for the h-60 in the event of a ditching.

When other aircraft fly over the water there is someone to come rescue them but if the rescuer then crashes how rescues them. It’s like having a RIT/FAST team in the fire service

Here we send ambulance rescue or just more ambulances

In regards to the appliances not making to the scene there are multiple reasons why a truck has to cancel response here's some examples

A truck got a flat tyre when responding to a bush fire in remote nsw after striking a fallen tree on a blind corner had to wait 45 minutes for a mechanic to allow the vehicle to finish responding(fire already had 20 trucks on scene and the two otger trucks in convoy cleared the road and continued)

A fire truck on the way to a structure fire had to stop after 3 kids throw rocks at it when it drove past the fire fighters caught the 3 hiss and had to wait for police(was replaced by another truck for the fire)

A ARRF fire truck when responding to a call struck a car in an intersection(will link story)
Here

And from my local town
In the space of a week two paddy wagons and a highway patrol car were involved in 3 separate incidents were they collided with vehicles in intersections
Could only find the first one

In Aus it's normally a pilot, copilot, aircrew(paramedic rescue trained) and 1-2 paramedic rescue(medics trained in extreme life support and rescue(car crashes and extracting patients))
Aircrew also depends on size and use
We also have surf lifesaving helicopters that are the same but the aircrew man is water trained like the us coast guard

Still looking for a confident graphics designer

Like I have said in a similar thread nose bleeds and things like that a very common ex specially in older people on blood thinners( can be deadly if they lose to much blood due to the thinners)
This call is quite common in the town I live in due to the large amount of elderly people

it depends on how far it has to go and how many units you have on your screen at once i believe

Hi I'm glen

I'm head of emergency services for the NSW/ACT Emergency Response.

I am looking for a graphics designer to make some good looking graphics if interested pm or post blow.

Examples of vehicles
http://www.ozemergencyservices.com.au/index.php?/category/4

yes

I have 4-5at my stations till I finish building all the stations then I will fill them out to full here in Aus we are similar to U.K. Ambulances stay at a depot when not in use or they patrol in set areas coverage areas can be huge in Aus so some ambulances have to drive like 40 minutes just to get near their coverage areas

It depends on how your Department does it
I build fire stations with ambulance expansion and move the type 1or 2 to another station because the ambulance services where I am run rescue units as well so I buy both a ambulance (however many at station)and rescue plus maybe a utility and flycar(depending if the station has them. So it's up to you
Fire station with the expansion gives more flexibility

I use it as state emergency services what America would classify as national guard for things like floods heavy rain ect

This has been brought up before in the post THW if you look further down

I figured out how to make my own but I can't make it public due to the fact I don't own the photos if you join the nsw/act emergency response and then pm me I can get it to you

That's basically what a fly car is a doctor car

I know paramedics go to routine calls like that all the time
It is very common for elderly people to get them due to blood thinners

It was just a suggestion and how I got round the problem with the my ambulance stations that are fire stations

Just checking some people are pretty thick

It think making call zones would fix the problem as a rural zone wouldn't have call boxes and high rises

Actually in the us the prime mover doesn't actually change trailers as fair to my knowledge they keep the trailer on
In Australia we have a USAR tractor trailer and that's all it's used for plus two fleet maintenance trucks used for fire truck transport they don't swap the trailers

the point is still valid it would be nice here in Australia stations can cover huge areas so having a large station in the middle of nowhere is pointles