Phenomenal as always excellent outstanding brilliant they deserve alot of credit tons of it let's honor and appreciate the paramedics and firemen who proudly serve us your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated even by Seattle fd responding great job great team work and great and sweet catches as usual still going strong great team efforts are deeply appreciated stay safe and warm out there stay strong and healthy as well much love and respect and appreciation job well done you should be proud really enjoyed and appreciate the vidoes please keep them safe out there and coming appreciate you guys thanks beautiful and great looking tiller trucks and fire engines very impressed way to go appreciate you guys thanks !!!! Joe
Great footage - you really went on a few treks! Was there some kind of open house happening at Station 10? Looked like more people than usual standing in the driveway 😀
In Seattle (and most cities in Washington, for that matter), Aid Units are operated by fire departments and ambulances are operated by private companies. Aid units are only supposed to transport patients if the case is too urgent to wait for an ambulance. In less urgent cases, the patient will be transported by the ambulance, freeing the Aid unit to respond to other 9-1-1 calls. This multifaceted plan is what keeps average response times down to four minutes or less, and is part of the reason Seattle has been called "the best place to have a heart attack."
Aid units are staffed by 2 Firefighter/EMTs providing basic care whereas Medic units are staffed by 2 Firefighter/Paramedics who can provide advanced life support care.
