New PA EMS Law?

[cddavis]

I have been hearing rumors of this new law and I am curious if any could provide any insight/info on it. Starting in 2012, if your volunteer EMS organization doesn't make it out to a call, that your station will be taken OOS until furthur notice and will not be placed back into service until an officer calls your local dispatch and advises that a crew is available. I was told that this is a State Law (through PADOH) and not just a county by county thing. I am just trying to read up on it and gather some information.

 

[paff2]

I have been hearing rumors of this new law and I am curious if any could provide any insight/info on it. Starting in 2012, if your volunteer EMS organization doesn't make it out to a call, that your station will be taken OOS until furthur notice and will not be placed back into service until an officer calls your local dispatch and advises that a crew is available. I was told that this is a State Law (through PADOH) and not just a county by county thing. I am just trying to read up on it and gather some information.

Not sure if this is just our county or not, but we currently do something similiar. If a unit fails to respond they are place on a no response status. When the next call is received they will be toned along with the next due at the same time. This will stay untill they call in and change back to normal response.

 

[C420sailor]

Not sure if this is just our county or not, but we currently do something similiar. If a unit fails to respond they are place on a no response status. When the next call is received they will be toned along with the next due at the same time. This will stay untill they call in and change back to normal response.

That I agree with, but putting the station out of service? That can't be true.

 

[TCO]

not really a new law just being enforced now and Padoh is keeping track of units scratching on calls,basically after dispatch if the unit does not go responding or respond to being hailed on radio after so long the call will be re-dispatched with next due as well as the scratched companies tones. the unit is then logged off for all calls and can only be logged up again buy a station officer.

 

[ark_firefighter]

Well maybe my wife and I won't be moving out that way anyways.

 

[iCrash]

It makes sense to me. I'm not on any first aid squad / EMS but I hear day in and day out my town's first aid squad get toned out 3 times before a mutual aid department is dispatched. First tone goes out, 2 minutes later a second tone, 2 minutes later a third tone and mutual aid is put out at the same time. My town's squad is extremely busy and by all rights should be a paid squad, but its ridiculous that one call goes unanswered by the squad and then minutes later another call comes in for them and it gets dispatched three times again. Its a lot of wasted time.