Category: AMBULANCE

Ambulance (General)

J428 MTJ Proteck Ford F350

J428 MTJ
Proteck
Ford F350
This American-style ambulance was seen for sale in County Durham. Note the lack of front registration plate and the rear indicators with arrows build in.

Classic Ambulance

G577 MWD West Midlands Ambulance Service Norton Co..

G577 MWD
West Midlands Ambulance Service
Norton Commander
Paramedic motorbike now in preservation. This 1989 vehicle was when paramedics were new and there weren’t many in each ambulance service. Their specialist skills would see them travel in cars or on motorbikes across the county to the most serious ambulance calls.

Fire In Action / Medics In Action

River Rescue Exercise (2017)

River Rescue Exercise (2017)

A large tree has fallen onto a river cruise boat in this exercise. There are multiple casualties and the only way to access the scene is by river.

First on the scene, around 20 minutes after the 999 call, was a fire service rib. One firefighter boards the cruise boat to triage casualties while his two colleagues search the river for casualties that have fallen overboard.

More emergency services respond to the major incident. Ambulance HART (Hazardous Area Response Team) personnel are joined by more fire and rescue teams as well as dedicated water rescue teams.

Seriously injured members of the public are tended to while uninjured and walking wounded are evacuated using the fleet of small ribs.

A makeshift reception centre is set up a few hundred metres downstream from the incident scene. Casualties are transferred from the boats onto land. It is the nearest road, so all road going emergency vehicles are parked up there.

Fire service vehicles in attendance include rescue pumps, Land Rovers and an incident command unit.

The major exercise attracted media attention, including a film crew who were embedded with the ambulance HART team for a year. Footage was used on the 2018 series ‘999 Rescue Squad’ shown on the W Channel.