message board home
Next
1/31/2008 2:36:28 PM
 
Reply
or ReplyNewSubject
Section 5: OPA Board Subject: Community Hall Options Msg# 530528
|
||||||
|
Taking three more minutes to get to an EMS call is the difference between life and death. Really! Ahhh, so let's put a EMS vehicle at every home if three minutes are that important. Also note the EMS service can go under the Route 90 bridge within OP, a problem for larger fire fisghting vehicles. As usual however, OPA debates issues without facts. For example, how many firers were on the northside n the last five years. Of those what percentage of the time did the apparatus from the southside station reach the location before the apparatus from the northside station? OPA doesn't know such fundamental factual information because it won't even ask. |
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: .......another three minutes is not going to mean inadequate service from the existing southside station. Two issues here - fire and EMS. Three minutes would be that much difference for a fire call. EMS is an entirely different issue. Taking three more minutes to get to an EMS call is the difference between life and death. Really! Every dispatched call on the fire/EMS side of public safety is an emergency. No so on the police side. Now suddenly the fire department can operate out of one facility on 589? Is the entire OPVFD going to operate out of a one new building? Is the southside station going to be disbanded? Someone needs to look at what equipment will be dispatched from this location. If it's just engines or trucks the there is no problem. However removing EMS from it's current White Horse Park area could adversely impact the north side of OP as it relates to EMS calls. Although I do find it interesting that they are considering using the OPA property once considered for auction to build a fire station. Is this land going to be given to the OPVFD gratis or will they purchase the land? |
BTW, there is no EMS service on the northside now, and I have not heard that one is contemplated.
| Calendar |
OPA Board Meeting - Golf Clubhouse
11/23/2024 - 9:00 A.M. 3 days or less away! |
|
OPA Board Meeting - Golf Clubhouse
12/21/2024 - 9:00 A.M. |
|
OPA Board Meeting - Golf Clubhouse
1/25/2025 - 9: A.M. |
|
OPA Board Meeting - Golf Clubhouse
2/22/2025 - 9:00 A.M. |
|
OPA Board Meeting - Golf Clubhouse
3/29/2025 - 9:00 A.M. |