My head hung low after hearing the following radio traffic:
"Control, this is Engine 99, we need a code 3 ambulance at our location."
"Copy that 99, do you have a patient report?"
"Yeah, this guy wants a ride to a shelter, refuses to stand up."
"99, can you confirm you need the ambulance code 3?"
"Yeah, we can't wait here all day, send them code 3."
It hurt. It hurt to hear that. But luckily an ambulance was around the corner and cleared a few minutes later with a final classification of "No medical merit."
"Control, this is Engine 99, we need a code 3 ambulance at our location."
"Copy that 99, do you have a patient report?"
"Yeah, this guy wants a ride to a shelter, refuses to stand up."
"99, can you confirm you need the ambulance code 3?"
"Yeah, we can't wait here all day, send them code 3."
It hurt. It hurt to hear that. But luckily an ambulance was around the corner and cleared a few minutes later with a final classification of "No medical merit."
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I can tell you how I would have treated the request - "Roger, EMS has been dispatched," and I would have probably sent EMS with an ALPHA response.
I would have gotten the police to attend too. Urban Campers don't always need to go with EMS.