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Sedth and Billy are both partially correct. Our Demand Units are still ALS transport units. We used to have 3 staffed six days a week at varying hours of the day. One North, One Central, One South. We currently are only running Demand 1 at 4th and Chicon, and Demand 3 on South Congress. Demand 2 was relocated further north and became M36. M36 is still only staffed at peak hours of the day. Demand 10-13 are Sprinter ambulances used at Special events and for Pub Ed events. Demand 4-9 are fully stocked assets that can be deployed as soon as staff arrives to man them. These units are also staffed if we have unassigned floaters on any given day of the week. one of the large Demand units is at every UT home football game dedicated specifically to the football players. Hope this clarifies
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Yes, that definately helped. Thank you so much. The peak load unit idea is still some what of a newer concept where I am, however its not in some of the bordering counties. However, here... MOST of EMS is FD based. 1 county has peak load units called "medic 100-600" and they are staffed with a Paramedic, and a Firefighter/EMT. To me this seems slightly redundant... if you have a Medic only, why not have an EMT only as well? not like that FF/EMT can do anything in the capacity of a FF on a scene when he's working OT on that unit. Also, why pay a FF/EMT overtime when they could very easily hire EMT only for a lot less. The county I am has 1 peak load unit and in all reality needed more. Its designated Rescue 14 and staffed with overtime FF/EMT and FF/PM. It is run M-F during they day, but any given time, listen to the scanner and you will here Rescues are continuously on move up even into the late night/early morning hours sometimes. I wish the County FD would just hire some EMT's and Paramedics w/o a FF cert, and add more peak load/move up trucks. I think 3 would be a good number at the least. Again, as well it would be cheaper to Pay an EMT or a Medic than an overtime FF/EMT and FF/PM. Here in Florida like every where else EMS and FF jobs are hard to come by, especially in the areas where EMS agencies are FEW and far between.
Sedth and Billy are both partially correct. Our Demand Units are still ALS transport units. We used to have 3 staffed six days a week at varying hours of the day. One North, One Central, One South. We currently are only running Demand 1 at 4th and Chicon, and Demand 3 on South Congress. Demand 2 was relocated further north and became M36. M36 is still only staffed at peak hours of the day. Demand 10-13 are Sprinter ambulances used at Special events and for Pub Ed events. Demand 4-9 are fully stocked assets that can be deployed as soon as staff arrives to man them. These units are also staffed if we have unassigned floaters on any given day of the week. one of the large Demand units is at every UT home football game dedicated specifically to the football players. Hope this clarifies
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Yes, that definately helped. Thank you so much. The peak load unit idea is still some what of a newer concept where I am, however its not in some of the bordering counties. However, here... MOST of EMS is FD based. 1 county has peak load units called "medic 100-600" and they are staffed with a Paramedic, and a Firefighter/EMT. To me this seems slightly redundant... if you have a Medic only, why not have an EMT only as well? not like that FF/EMT can do anything in the capacity of a FF on a scene when he's working OT on that unit. Also, why pay a FF/EMT overtime when they could very easily hire EMT only for a lot less. The county I am has 1 peak load unit and in all reality needed more. Its designated Rescue 14 and staffed with overtime FF/EMT and FF/PM. It is run M-F during they day, but any given time, listen to the scanner and you will here Rescues are continuously on move up even into the late night/early morning hours sometimes. I wish the County FD would just hire some EMT's and Paramedics w/o a FF cert, and add more peak load/move up trucks. I think 3 would be a good number at the least. Again, as well it would be cheaper to Pay an EMT or a Medic than an overtime FF/EMT and FF/PM. Here in Florida like every where else EMS and FF jobs are hard to come by, especially in the areas where EMS agencies are FEW and far between.
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