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WHEN SOMEONE CALLS 9-1-1 DISPATCHERS WILL ASK YOU WHAT'S
GOING ON AND WHAT YOUR ADDRESS IS AND THEN THEY WILL DETERMINE IF IT'S CATEGORIZED AS A
MEDICAL EMERGENCY ONE OR A MEDICAL EMERGENCY TWO AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO IS KIND OF THE
SEVERITY THEN THEY WILL SEND EITHER AN AMBULANCE BY ITSELF OR THEY'LL SEND AN AMBULANCE WITH ONE
OR TWO ADDITIONAL FIRE TRUCKS TO GET MORE PEOPLE ON THE SCENE WHEN WE SEND A FIRE TRUCK TO FOLLOW
AN AMBULANCE TO THE SCENE OF A MEDICAL EMERGENCY IT'S NOT SO MUCH ABOUT THE EQUIPMENT THAT
THE FIRE TRUCK IS TAKING WITH THEM IT'S ABOUT SENDING MORE PEOPLE TO HELP WITH THE TREATMENTS
SO OUR AMBULANCES CARRY ALL THE EQUIPMENT THAT IS NEEDED TO RUN ANY KIND OF MEDICAL EMERGENCY
WE ENCOUNTER WHEN THE EMERGENCY IS OVER AND THE AMBULANCE IS ON THE WAY THE HOSPITAL THE FIRE TRUCK IS
BACK IN SERVICE READY TO MAKE ANOTHER CALL WHETHER IT'S A FIRE OR ANOTHER MEDICAL EMERGENCY
OR MAYBE A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.