Baltimore City Fire Department

[edburke]

[quote name='Fireman5230' post='120889' date='Jun 20 2007, 09:08 ']Ed and all... I think BCFD and Philly where two of the first Cities to take EMS and run with it back in the late 60's or 70's. SINCE it has been around for 30 + years I think just removing it will be hard. Weather you divide and make a SEPERATE agency or realine it under FD Better will be hard.



Here in my town we have a Police Dispatcher and a County 9-1-1 service that can handle FD-PD-EMS BUT some town Chief's of Police would loose budget money if they "give up" the Communications part and just let the County handle it... As it is, We get dispatched by County then do all Communications with the Local PD... NOT ALL FD's Do this but some still do.



Just another spin on how things are messed up around the county's Fire Service. <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />[/quote]



I'm not supporting taking EMS out of the FD in Baltimore. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, but I think the recognition of the increasing significance of EMS is both important and long overdue. Putting it on the ladder board is NOT a travesty in my opinion, as others seem to believe it is.