Was I the only person saddened and astonished at the reaction to West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance service
mobilising a fire appliance to a collapsed man? We have spent years and years trying to extend the training on and
availability of defibrillators, and when someone thinks very fast and mobilises a fire appliance with defibrillator and
people trained to use to a patient in cardiac arrest they have to issue an apology?
How many of the Service's ambulances at that moment were on genuine calls that really needed an ambulance? How
many were dealing with drunks littering streets, hoax calls, people who needed to be put back to bed and so on?
If anyone here has contacts at the WYMS please can they pass on my thanks for some fast thinking and completely
appropriate salvage action.
Best wishes,
Rowley Cottingham
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