Fire Station Special! - Dalkeith Station - Ep.84 - Emergency Services in Scotland

[@CobraEmergency]

Informative video, thank you. It's an interesting discussion that; fire and ambulance working together. Like you said, many countries have fire and rescue services that *run* emergency medical services. Whereas in the UK the public sector emergency medical service (referred to as the Ambulance service) is a very separate organisation to the public sector fire and rescue service. Yet Leicestershire runs a co-responder scheme where the fire and rescue service works closely with East Midlands Ambulance Service; by sending a pumping appliance to medical as well as an ambulance. How-ever not long after the scheme they've already introduced Fire And Rescue Ambulances, which are quite literally Ambulances ran by Leicestershire Fire And Rescue Service in co-ordination with East Midlands Ambulance Service. The Fire Department Of New York City, the Paris Fire Department and many other fire and rescue organisations around the world, both public sector and private, run their own ambulances with their own medical teams who work closely with firefighters. For example the Fire Department Of New York City (FDNY) will often send the nearest available apparatus to a medical emergency, and a lot of the time it will arrive before the ambulance; and the ambulances are often ran by the FDNY itself. But due to the USA's health care system, each hospital actually runs their own emergency medical service as well which will respond to a patient if they are insured/registered with that medical service with the exception of if it's an emergency, when the nearest ambulance (regardless of organisation) is usually dispatched. I suppose in a city like New York City, it makes sense. As there's lots of fire stations spread over small areas of the city, meaning it's only ever a few minutes from one area to the next, and often fire apparatus are the quickest emergency vehicle to get somewhere in a city where the road is often grid locked with traffic. (Plus a fire engine bearing down on traffic is more likely to move that traffic quicker). And then I suppose the same logic applies to a city like London. But what about a large rural area such as west Lothian? All in all, I actually think it's a good idea to send the nearest/available emergency vehicle, whether that be fire, ambulance or even police, to an urgent medical emergency - because who ever can get there the quickest, but also *importantly* is trained in advanced life support, will increase the chances of survival dramatically. But it needs to be a carefully planned scheme, you can't rush it out without the proper training, equipment, staff, vehicles and other factors. EDIT: All information is knowledge I've learnt over time, don't shoot me if I've got something wrong!

[@TheCrimsonZ_Hunter]

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[@hibblejaybob]

What did I just say about spam...... General stuff like this is for my social media accounts, not a completely different KZbin series!

[@AberdeenAviation]

Nice Video

[@hibblejaybob]

thanks! :)

[@Ben-db5re]

Epic vid mate;)

[@hibblejaybob]

Cheers!

[@joshbarnes6816]

How can i get into the Fire Cadet's Program?

[@hibblejaybob]

You would need to ask your local Fire Cadets branch

[@joshbarnes6816]

@@hibblejaybob I tried looking online but Nothing Had came up Also i loved this Vid as was really interesting on the fact That there is USAR Trained firefighters in such a Small fire station And what the Red cross Van's use is. And when would u do another 'Fire Station special!'

[@adamvin2185]

so when the fire fighters are doing there full time jobs and they have a call to respond to a fire do they have blue lights on there cars so they can get to the fire sation quick ?

[@hibblejaybob]

Nope, they must be capable of getting back to the station without the help of any blue lights

[@CobraEmergency]

In Germany and the Netherlands they often have emergency warning systems on their cars, and I've even seen it on Volunteer Fire Departments in the USA. But as far as I'm aware, most can't run red lights, speed, use siren...etc; much like an emergency doctor in the UK who use green lights but can't drive erratically, but people can react appropriately if they choose to. And I do believe some have siren as well.

[@southeastandsouthcentralem0743]

What is the station number

[@hibblejaybob]

+Oliver todds 999 responses J01 now. Back then it was still using it's old number 33

[@southeastandsouthcentralem0743]

is it retained

[@hibblejaybob]

+Oliver todds 999 responses nope. It's the only wholetime station in Midlothian

[@madjock7784]

Hibblejaybob what's the film for the Red Cross unit

[@madjock7784]

What's the film for the Red Cross unit

[@hibblejaybob]

Not sure what you mean by the film, but the BRC Welfare unit is photographed in this video.

[@madjock7784]

Hibblejaybob hiya yeah I know you made reference to and said you seen around or something in a video before

[@madjock7784]

Around 2 mins in said you showed it off just wondering how it was showed off lol I crew it sometimes lol

[@hibblejaybob]

I was mistaken, it was in a photo album, not a video. Specifically this one: old.hibblejaybob.co.uk/album--mcdonald-road-open-day--6.8.16.html

[@scotsfire]

those ex central volvos get about don they

[@hibblejaybob]

Yeah they do!

[@scotsfire]

few parked up behind dunfermline on eor 2 up at st andrews few parked at ex Ffie hq

[@TheCrimsonZ_Hunter]

Nice try I can be faster.

[@hibblejaybob]

Not really, you're still on my spam list for the month! I've said dozens of times already that the comments should be about the video, or take it social media for general chat or questions.