[Annie01]

Originally Posted by VT2TV

Realizing that all states can be different, but where we are from, the paid and volunteer crews travel with at least 2 crew members, occ. 3. At least 1 is a paramedic and the other 2 would be EMT's. I have never seen a ambulance/EMS unit dispatched from a hospital, they have always been stationed either in the fire station, or in their own free standing EMS building. The only paramedics I have seen working in a hospital were there to assist the nurses in transporting monitored patients during transfer to a critical care area or step-down unit, and working in the telementry area. We also flew a nurse/paramedic team with the helicopter. To answer the question someone asked about what the fire trucks did after the call---as soon as the EMS unit marked enroute to the hospital with the patient, the firemen went back to the station to prepare for the next call.

thanks !!