do the private ambulance companies in southern california upstaff during red flags?
private ambulance companies provide all of the ambulances for los angeles county fd and most of southern california iirc (the following info is from fire fandom - it might not be 100% accurate) the only major FDs that operate their own ambulances are Los Angeles City - approx 100 fire ambulances Long Beach FD - (10 ALS ambs + 5 BLS ambs) Pasadena FD - 8 E + 2 L - all are ALS - plus 5 als ambs Burbank FD - 3 ALS ambs Glendale FD (9 engines with 1 FF/PM each (or all eng with 2 ff/pm each) + 6 BLS ambs) Anaheim FD (2 PM squads + 9 BLS ambs) Costa Mesa FD (has 3 BLS ambs staffed by private amb company EMTs) Huntington Beach FD - 8 als engines + 6 BLS ambs Orange County FD runs 61 paramedic engines + 5 PMA engines + 9 als ladders + 2 pm squads Riverside County FD operates 82 engines and 11 aerials - unknown if any are als - they also run 2 medic patrols + 10 medic ambulances Riverside City FD operates zero ambulances - they are provided by AMR - FD has 70 people on duty 24/7 with a minimum of 17 trained as medics San Diego City FD operates 52 engines and 13 ladders 24/7 - each has at least 1 ff/pm on board - Falck provides the ambulances San Diego County FD owns approx 25 ambs - 7 are staffed by AMR (6 are als) - the rest are staffed by County FD staff Ventura County FD operates 13 als engines and 2 als ambulances - apparently they get alot of support from private ambulance companies San Bernardino County FD operates 93 engines and 13 ladders + 15 medic squads + 37 medic ambs + 2 leased medevac helos - ( approx 25 of the engines are ALS ) we can see that the FDs in southern California are deeply involved in providing EMS / ambulance service - so it stands to reason - if the private ambulance companies can upstaff during red flag events - they can take a large load off the FDs - in theory - maybe ems calls drop like a rock during red flags - not sure about that bottom line - if an ems call during a red flag gets handled by 1 or 2 private ambulances versus 1 fire truck and 1 private ambulance - then obviously you will have many more fire units available for handling fires -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKazgY5LQ3KyTHFDTyKmn0LZuxMW63DRt2ki3FyDPqa47A%40mail.gmail.com.
