- Reaction score
- 2,664
- Points
- 1,260
The incident is under investigation.
Worth remembering municipal firefighters and paramedics provide non-law enforcement emergency services .
The public is now used to seeing fire trucks on EDP calls . It wasn't always that way.
For example, The City of Dearborn , Michigan handled approximately 3,500 fire department calls in 1968, compared with more than 18,000 annually today, despite having roughly the same population.
Hard to believe there has been that much of an increase in fires.
That is the trend , now , across Canada and the U.S.
We would never have displayed a forcicible entry tool , such as the long pry bars we were equipped with , on an EDP call. At least , I never did.
Unless a police officer or member of the public needed help , forcible entry tools stayed in the ambulance.
If a tire iron , wrapped in a pillowcase , happened to be discretely stashed at hand under the stretcher mattress , on a high rise gig , just in case , was another matter.
And , no , that is - NOT - to say I would , or would not , condone such a thing.
As much as possible, we tried to stay in the background, but in visual contact with the police . They were in charge. We were ready to immediately move in the moment they gave us a hand signal to participate in a possible take down and stretcher restraint.
Tasers and chemical restraint were after my time.
