Squad-6 said:
What is a "fly car" & why can anyone just take it for a day?
fly cars are 1st response vehicles that r usually tahoes, suburbans, expeditions. it essentially has everything an ambulance has minus the stretcher. Some fire dept.s only do 1st response BLS (and a paid
ALS service will transport the pt.), thus the fly-car SUV is EMT staffed and responds to assess & stabilize the pt. (if needed) until
ALS arrives, and you'll also often see a lot of fly cars that are
ALS (i.e. if a BLS ambulance gets 10-23 on scene 1st and it's a scoop-and-run pt., an
ALS flycar can "
ALS intercept" them and hop on their BLS rig w/ his lifepack and drug box).
some departments allow qualified members to use sign out their fly cars so that the EMT can respond immediately (as opposed to delayed responses/taking time to respond
POV to the station) when the tones drop. (i.e. since i was a crew chief in my
EMS squad, i could take one of our tahoes/suburbans out and keep it with me in my free time for however long i signed it out, as long as i stayed within district; i'd serve as 2nd due if the duty crew was out on a call or i'd respond if they needed manpower). it's also nice for the officers to have an idea when there's already coverage and when they need to look 4 someone avail.
looks good kirk!