Boston EMS

[edburke]

[quote name='MiltonBradley' post='28706' date='Aug 31 2006, 22:46 ']Mr. Burke, I know your a very busy man, but in the little time you have can you post the info on where BEMS stations are and what units respond out of those stations and when. I have been getting confused about the placements of spares/reserves and where they are stored. Im also confused about the placement of Ambulance 8.

Thank you in advance if you can.



-John[/quote]



A1/P1 109 Purchase St Downtown

A2/P2 364 Warren Av Roxbury

A3 1165 Blue Hill Av Mattapan (BPD District 3)

P3 2100 Dorchester Av Dorchester (Carney Hospital)

A5/P5 1153 Center Street Jamcia Plain (covers Roslindale/West Roxbury)

A6 101 West Broadway South Boston (BPD District 6)

A7/A32 200 Prescott St. East Boston (next to North Gate at Logan Airport)

A8/A10/Div 1/Shift Commander 69 Glynn Way South End

A11 50 Gibson St Dorchester

A12/A31/P40/Div 2. 249 River St Mattapan (former grounds of Mattapan Chronic Disease Hospital)

A13/A17 3347 Washington St Jamacia Plain (BPD District 13)

A14/A34 33 MacDonald Av Allston

A15 512 Main St Charlestown

A16/P16 330 Brookline Av. (Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital East Campus)

A18 58 Dana Av Hyde Park

Fleet Services 61 Shirley St Roxbury



A8 shifts from Glynn Way, and is assigned to Dock Sq. Downtown as an impact truck for overflow calls in Districts 1, 7 and 15



A10 shifts from Glynn Wy and is assigned to Edward Everett Sq. Dorchester as an impact truck for overflow calls in Districts 2, 6 and 11



A12 shifts from River St and is assigned to Franklin Park Dorchester as an impact truck for overflow calls in Districts 2, 3 and 11



A16 shifts and is posted at the BI/Deaconess Hospital as an impct truck for overflow calls in Districts 1, 2 and 14



A17, when in service(additional truck when non-OT staffing permits), shifts from BPD District 13, and is poted in Roslindale Square as an impact truck for overflow calls in Districts 5, 13 and 18.



All of the impact trucks are staffed from 0600-0200 daily in 2 10 hour shifts. A15 is in service from 0700-2300 in 2 8 hour shifts. P16 Runs from 0800-0000 in 2 8 hour shifts, and P3 runs from 0630-2230 in 2 8 hour shifts.



Any truck with a number above 20, is a spare vehicle, and the number is for fleet use only. Any of these vehicles can be used at any time, and usually get a designation in the CAD as a 30 series truck if it is extra, or as the district vehicle that it is covering for. So it is not unusual to see A31, but it is actually A2, or A29 running as A11. If the spares are being used as extra trucks, they will get a 30 series designation in the CAD and a 40 series designation if they are a Paramedic truck. Confused yet?

[Guest]

Thank you Mr Burke for the info, seems like i always have a question for you, how many spare/reserve Ambulances/Paramedics does BEMS have?

[Guest]

Ambulance 6, A 2006 GMC/Braun.

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Ambulance 7, A 2006 GMC/Braun.

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Spare Ambulance 22, A 2003 GMC/Braun.

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Spare Ambulance 25, A 2003 GMC/Braun.

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Paramedic 16, A 2006 GMC/Braun.

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Materials Unit, A 2006 Chevy Box Van.

[Guest]

Good find on that meterials unit.

[Guest]

[quote name='Lime Guy' post='39063' date='Oct 1 2006, 23:17 ']Good find on that meterials unit.[/quote]



I was shocked it came out that good, i took that picture while stuck in traffic on Mass Ave. I zoomed in over 6 lanes of traffic and threw the parking lot to get the pic.

[Guest]

[quote name='MiltonBradley' post='39043' date='Oct 1 2006, 22:46 ']Ambulance 7, A 2006 GMC/Braun.[/quote]



I try for months to get a shot of this unit and you get lucky and catch it on Summer Street <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/banghead.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/doh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



Nice find!

[Guest]

[quote name='edburke' post='28818' date='Sep 1 2006, 03:40 ']A1/P1 109 Purchase St Downtown

A2/P2 364 Warren Av Roxbury

A3 1165 Blue Hill Av Mattapan (BPD District 3)

P3 2100 Dorchester Av Dorchester (Carney Hospital)

A5/P5 1153 Center Street Jamcia Plain (covers Roslindale/West Roxbury)

A6 101 West Broadway South Boston (BPD District 6)

A7/A32 200 Prescott St. East Boston (next to North Gate at Logan Airport)

A8/A10/Div 1/Shift Commander 69 Glynn Way South End

A11 50 Gibson St Dorchester

A12/A31/P40/Div 2. 249 River St Mattapan (former grounds of Mattapan Chronic Disease Hospital)

A13/A17 3347 Washington St Jamacia Plain (BPD District 13)

A14/A34 33 MacDonald Av Allston

A15 512 Main St Charlestown

A16/P16 330 Brookline Av. (Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital East Campus)

A18 58 Dana Av Hyde Park

Fleet Services 61 Shirley St Roxbury



A8 shifts from Glynn Way, and is assigned to Dock Sq. Downtown as an impact truck for overflow calls in Districts 1, 7 and 15



A10 shifts from Glynn Wy and is assigned to Edward Everett Sq. Dorchester as an impact truck for overflow calls in Districts 2, 6 and 11



A12 shifts from River St and is assigned to Franklin Park Dorchester as an impact truck for overflow calls in Districts 2, 3 and 11



A16 shifts and is posted at the BI/Deaconess Hospital as an impct truck for overflow calls in Districts 1, 2 and 14



A17, when in service(additional truck when non-OT staffing permits), shifts from BPD District 13, and is poted in Roslindale Square as an impact truck for overflow calls in Districts 5, 13 and 18.



All of the impact trucks are staffed from 0600-0200 daily in 2 10 hour shifts. A15 is in service from 0700-2300 in 2 8 hour shifts. P16 Runs from 0800-0000 in 2 8 hour shifts, and P3 runs from 0630-2230 in 2 8 hour shifts.



Any truck with a number above 20, is a spare vehicle, and the number is for fleet use only. Any of these vehicles can be used at any time, and usually get a designation in the CAD as a 30 series truck if it is extra, or as the district vehicle that it is covering for. So it is not unusual to see A31, but it is actually A2, or A29 running as A11. If the spares are being used as extra trucks, they will get a 30 series designation in the CAD and a 40 series designation if they are a Paramedic truck. Confused yet?[/quote]



Am I reading this right. You only have 5 ALS trucks?

[edburke]

[quote name='oneilljb' post='39955' date='Oct 4 2006, 14:43 ']Am I reading this right. You only have 5 ALS trucks?[/quote]



Yup, the BLS has to go through 12 weeks of academy training and 12 weeks of field internship prior to getting a badge(the state certification only gets you in the door if you pass the entrance process). The additional training has a lot of pathophysiology and assessment in it, which "allows our BLS to assess at an ALS level" (academy statement, not mine) and make a determination of which is more beneficial to the patient-wait for ALS, intercept with ALS or cancel the ALS and go to the hospital. With transport times generally between 2-10 minutes, the last option tends to be the most common.



I have been sent on calls where a private service has requested ALS from us, and BLS is sent as well, since they can't drive our vehicles, only to find them in the back of their truck with a fully packaged patient, just sitting and waiting for the ALS to arrive-They are horrified when we tell them that the hospital is 1/2 mile away, and the ALS is coming from downtown, and if they hadn't just sat there with their thumbs up there arses, they could already have been at the hospital.



It's quality, not quantity. Our ALS providers have to go through a similarly brutal process to get promoted. We have many, many state certified paramedics working as basics, just waiting for the opportunity to advance. I would rather have a great basic over a poor or mediocre medic any day of the week, and 99% of our BLS falls into the very good to great category.

[apb2148]

I am a medic in Charlotte,NC. We have the 4500 chevy buses( 4 door). How do your buses ride? Thanks

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Probably a repost of a spare but I think it's interesting.



Spare ambulance driving through Chelsea on return trip to Boston.

[SOlsonBFDL14]

[quote name='oneilljb' post='39955' date='Oct 4 2006, 14:43 ']Am I reading this right. You only have 5 ALS trucks?[/quote]





I can second what Ed has stated, the sheer number of hospitals in the city make having many more ALS trucks impractical. There are at least 8 hospitals with full Emergency Rooms within city limits (Beth Israel, Boston Medical Center, Brigham & Women's, Carney, Faulkner, Massachusetts General, New England Medical & Saint Elizabeth's). The city itself is just over 40 square mils in area which means you average a hospital for about every 5 square miles of area. They are also fairly well spread out so by the time ALS arrives, more often then not the patient can already be at a hospital.

[edburke]

[quote name='Skip Olson BFD L14' post='40224' date='Oct 5 2006, 12:25 ']I can second what Ed has stated, the sheer number of hospitals in the city make having many more ALS trucks impractical. There are at least 8 hospitals with full Emergency Rooms within city limits (Beth Israel, Boston Medical Center, Brigham & Women's, Carney, Faulkner, Massachusetts General, New England Medical & Saint Elizabeth's). The city itself is just over 40 square mils in area which means you average a hospital for about every 5 square miles of area. They are also fairly well spread out so by the time ALS arrives, more often then not the patient can already be at a hospital.[/quote]



WOW! I guess the demise of the Code 3 board had some positive effect. Welcome to Firepics Sean!

[Guest]

Is bems and BFD connected like fdny and fdny ems?

[edburke]

[quote name='ScottyK107' post='40820' date='Oct 6 2006, 22:48 ']Is bems and BFD connected like fdny and fdny ems?[/quote]



Nope, third municipal service, like the old NYC*EMS.

[SOlsonBFDL14]

[quote name='edburke' post='40249' date='Oct 5 2006, 14:34 ']WOW! I guess the demise of the Code 3 board had some positive effect. Welcome to Firepics Sean![/quote]





Yeah, it got me to start posting as opposed to lurking in the shadows just reading. :-)