The Villages Fire Dept or better known as TVPSD has every vehicle staffed with Paramedics and EMTs. They provide advanced life support upon arrival. This generally takes 6 mins or so. The ambulance is also staffed with a Paramedic and an EMT. The ambulances don't have fixed stations and at times have to come from the far side or outside TV. Usually it is TVPSD who arrives first with all the needed equipment and training. Regardless, whoever gets there first starts treatment on the patient. Treatment on scene is the most important time for a victim such as myself or other medical issues and most accidents except level 1 trauma victims. It is rare that ambulances do a " load and go "
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