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Hats off for the firefighters, and the linemen(ESB) and engineers, and the cooks and hotel workers and the Gardai, the nurses, doctors, funeral directors, water treatment operators, and even those at Centra on the Gort Rd in Ennis who are still at work today.
I feel a kinship, having worked at professions that often required working holidays? Where? Data centers, hotels, hospitals, television production….all 24/7, 365 day operations. Couldn’t live without ‘em.
Cheers, boys and girls. Enjoy.

It’s all just a ploy by the Dublin fire brigade. There trying to make out their great as some day soon they will lose the ambulance service and will be just firemen doing the job like the rest of them in the country. But they love having the public think that their dublins Heros, out save life’s on the ambulance cos there’s no one else to do it. The fact is 80% of them hate working on the ambulance.
One day the two tier ambulance service in Dublin will end. Ambulance will be sent for sick people and fire engines send to fires and life will go one and no one will think twice about the fire service or the ambulance service.

Lawrence i am going to say you have an axe to grind with the DFB. I Have seen some of your posts before and its quite obvious your not a fan, which would lead me to believe you have failed the aptitude test for the Brigade several times, or you are involved with another private ambulance service that is vying for the ambulance service in the city. It’s not a fact that 80% hate the ambulance, explain two tier service. The Fact is the Emergency services nation wide are stretched to breaking point. Fact is DFB have twelve ambulance to serve the greater Dublin area. Fact there is not always one available, a motor is sent with qualified staff on board. Please keep you hate filled comments to yourself, i would bet your probably listening to the DFB on a scanner radio saying it should of been me i could do that job..

Trolling Clown. Get back under your rock

Lawrence, the HSE is taking over all ambulance 999 calls including Dublin when the EOC in Tallaght opens next year. The actual ambulances are being transferred to the National Ambulance Service on a phased basis over a 2-year period. New ambulance officers have been appointed to the Dublin area in-line with coming changes. The tetra and computer dispatch system is almost fully nationalised meaning the closest ambulance will always be sent. 120 trainee paramedics to go through the ambulance college over the next year. The new chief fire officer for Dublin is seeking to fully implement the Keeping Communities Safe policy without delay. Positive news for the public. A dedicated fire service and a dedicated ambulance service. It’s a no-brainer. As usual the proven system in the UK is copied here decades later. Hopefully the Gardai will start catching up with the Brits too.

Bullshit

I assure you it’s not, and this is primarily as a result of concerns raised by the HSE & HIQA combined with the €10m per annum cost for the fire brigade ambulances as opposed to €7m per annum to provide it directly via the National Ambulance Service and Dublin City Council’s decision to implement Keeping Communities Safe, which was put in place to create a national standard for fire and rescue services.

Fact is that during the day there are 12 additional Emergency Ambulances up to 7pm at night between swords, james.st and tallaghts NAS stations as well as a motorbike RRV and an AP car fully equipped and four or five ambulances at night.
I have no issue in requesting the NACC to send us a motor or an AP from DFB to support us, I hope DFB crews realise that they too, can request the same help from us. When we start working together hopefully this them and us bullshit will end.
The national ambulance command and control centre is happening and DFB will have there EMS control integrated into the system at large. That means the closest ambulance to any incident will be sent be it DFB or NAS including support units.
We are a new generation of DFB and NAS. So let’s start cooperating with each other.

Their,they’re,there.
Please learn the difference.

You have a lot to concern yourself with Dublin Sheriff

Of course stuff like this goes on Tom but it goes both ways. As you know until recently with the introduction of Intermediate Care Vehicles, HSE emergency ambulances were regularly tied up with AS2 (GP) calls or inter-hospital transfers, which of course is unavoidable at times and mundane would be an accurate word to describe it but this is an essential part of the country’s health service. Dublin Fire Brigade currently refuse to do these calls. However all this dysfunction will come to an abrupt end when the National EOC opens in Tallaght. No need to call across the room anymore as there will only be one system covering all ambulances, so the closest ambulance will be dispatched to emergencies but conversely Fire Brigade ambulances will be tasked to AS2 calls and inter-hospital transfers as and when required for the remainder of their tenure.

Tom I strongly disagree there on some big points.
1, firstly the EHB ambulance service you speak of was dissolved into the ERAS in 1999, it was further incorporated into the National Ambulance Service in 2005 which over the past few years has begun to modernise it’s deployment model, has in cooperation with the Irish Air Corp has developed Ireland’s first dedicated HEMS service. For you to call it an outdated name shows the lack of respect you have for the service.
2. Both NAS and DFB use the ProQA AMPDs automated triage system in the control rooms. For members of the publics benefit emergency calls are prioritised to a calls urgency, so echo delta Charlie and bravo calls are considered the most serious. Alpha and Omega calls are triaged as low priority cases where life is not in danger and so have a non blue light response( driving normal conditions like every member of the public)
Internationally Alpha and Omega calls tend to be considered a huge issue in ems provision because these calls usually don’t require an ambulance response and could be treated by gps etc. they make up more then 25% of an normal ems systems calls.
According to DFB 2012 clinical audit Alpha and Omega calls make up less then 10% of there responses, where do they go? Well interesting in the Dfb service area NAS answer higher amounts of calls of A/O categories then they do in parts of Dublin where Dfb ems is not prevalent.

This could be construe that DFB are passing on lower priority calls that as they have a slower response means ambulances tied up in calls longer.

In the case where a serious incident such as a traffic accident comes in, ambulances that may be mobile to lower priority calls but are not in attendance yet, will be redirected to the more urgent calls.
This circumstance is becoming rarer as NAS introduce ICS into the region. A nonemergency service that handles A/O calls and transfers leaving NAS emergency ambulances to respond where there colleagues in DFB may require the ambulance. Also NAS covers a larger area then DFB in the Dublin/ Leinster area hence there can be times where we may not have an ambulance available.last year NAS had
Nearly 1million patient interactions .

Tom

Tom who thinks calls are news worthy? Most NAS/DFB personnel respond to aid there fellow citizens not based on a calls news worthiness, in fact Dfb have a press office, NAS does not. Think that comment shows you up more then any service