I presume ours are the same. Certainly to use all the kit in the car would imply they were very highly trained. I must as the one I see at our marina next time he stops there - it being as good as anywhere to wait for the next local call out. (Especially as the odd resident has been taken from his boat moored there to hospital.)
--- On Tue, 11/11/08, Brian on Harnser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Brian on Harnser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [canals-list] Re: David Blagrove a bit off - not like John Gagg To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 4:58 PM It happens that Graham Keens formulated : > David Cragg told us about the Community First Responders in his area. > > > In Oxfordshire, we now have the retained Fire service attending to > perform this sort of role. If you call 999 for a medical emergency a > large noisy red fire engine appears out side your house and sits > blocking the road, ready to respond to any other emergency that may > occur, while one of the crew members delivers first aid until an > ambulance can arrive. > It gets someone there fast but I bet it is annoying the employers of > the aforementioned retained firemen as their number of callouts must > have doubled since they started this new process. > Twice the pay :D :D In Suffolk we have the CFRs but they are not first aiders but are trained to a higher level than the ambulance paramedics, they start on the ambulance run and then get promoted. We also have community first aiders who are just that. members of the community who are trained in first aid and I think defribulation. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
