If not how do you suggest he uses his time that does seem “right”?
Where do I start ?
For a start perhaps they could get involved in assisting their overworked colleagues with the lifting of human beings who have fallen over.
Now I know that lifting ‘non injured’ Doris off the floor at 3am in the morning may not bring the fire service the front page feature that they so desire, or the complexity/kudos of lifting a horse out of a ditch. But hey someone has to do it…
A large proportion of frontline ambulance work is spent responding to ‘gran down’ calls from external agencies such as careline ( the pull cord sytems). More often than not these calls are attended by single response vehicles who have to wait lengthy time for assistance from additional medical muscle power.
And all the time the radio is blurting ‘six outstanding emergency calls….NO vehicles to assign’.
Meanwhile up the road at the main station there is a fire crew asleep..how do I know this ? I have mates in the fire service and in twenty years, I can honestly state I’ve rarely seen a fire engine bay empty!
To argue against the ‘burning building’ debate is futile.. unless you work in/ alongside emergency services you could be forgiven that this is a common incident…it is not.I have the utmost respect for anyone who does this…but let us not hoodwink the public into thinking its a daily/ weekly occurrence.
Some may say my post is fuelled by jealousy.. you bet it is !!
It is WRONG that one service is stretched to the absolute limits whilst another has it easy..
Simple