I've been on calls where I am the only one responding, and I helplessly tried with one other member to help a woman who had a car wreck when there was no ambulance and I still believe that all we needed was a dammed airway to save her. She left two kids, 5 and 8. That call sticks with me because it was a just lousy hunk of plastic that we didn't have, for lack of a crew nearby.
Thats really bad. Our situation is fortunatly a lot better. Somebody has to do some explaining when a engine goes out without the needed 6 man crew, but generally there isn't any problems with crew members during priority calls. But there are occationally are problems with non-priority calls, like free standing trash containers, etc. I really can't imagine such a situation happing in mine country. I'm really suprised such thing can happend without public outcry and politicians acting up.
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