"I found an ambulance quite moving" blog discussion

tenmah

ElkyElky wrote: »

I don't get this blog post. Moving out of the way for emergency services.. isn't that what the law says you must do? After all, we don't want someones blood on our hands.

Why is complying with the law "moving"?

I've pulled over hundreds of times for emergency services but it doesn't make me drop to the ground blubbering like a hysterical idiot.

Nobody mentioned dropping to the ground blubbering like a hysterical idiot.

It was just being noted that it is indeed a moving sight when people work together as a team for the good of a stranger.

No need to be rude or judgemental.

mysuni

CAE wrote: »

Please do not refer to anyone driving an ambulance as an ambulance driver. He or she may be driving an ambulance, but they will also be a highly skilled technician or Paramedic.

Yes sorry, you are quite right. I wasn't thinking, I meant the paramdiec that happened to be driving. They do a great job in sometimes very difficult conditions and I will be eternally grateful to them.

luxor4t

solarfusion wrote: »

I wish people would be so considerate when they park their cars opposite each other and don't leave enough space for an emergency vehicle.

We live fairly near a sports ground and a university - the stupid parking is amazing, including across corners. Heaven help us all if an emergency vehicle was needed.

A heart-warming post, Martin!

irrelevant

luxor4t wrote: »

We live fairly near a sports ground and a university - the stupid parking is amazing, including across corners. Heaven help us all if an emergency vehicle was needed.

Access to our road is past a health centre, and often there are cars parked on both sides of the road making access for even normal vehicles awkward.

The only time I've ever actually been forced to stop, get out, and find the owner of a vehicle was one evening when three *police cars* were strewn all over the road, blocking it completely..!!

A heart-warming post, Martin!

Indeed, and seconded. Thank you Martin

coupleuk

Oh Dear, Oh Dear,

MSE Martin is getting soppy.

Pull yourself together man - there's no room for sentiment when MoneySaving.

:rotfl:

Paul

dreamdreamer

I wish people would be so considerate when they park their cars opposite each other and don't leave enough space for an emergency vehicle.

Ah to be a fire truck and have the right to push them out the way! (Yes I've seen it done! No the owner wasn't pleased!)

I work for an ambulance service, and still after 5 years on the job I'm heartened by how many people pull over for the greater good for an ambulance. There's not many things left in this country that cause people to be so unanimously empathetic (even if it is the law) so yes, in a funny way it is moving! Love the post Martin! Although you wouldn't like to hear the inside of an ambulance cab when you get an idiot who WONT move over!

Whatever they get paid isn't nearly enough.

If you could put that in writing to my bosses I'd appreciate it! :rotfl:

vixmix

It's an amazing sight when the cars part like a zipper on a congested dual carriageway!

For moving, well, the snow really brought out the amazing in people. Utterly fab when you go into a house to see a patient and look outside to see a bunch of neighbours digging 4ft of snow to leave a clear run for a wheelchair from the house to the ambulance. We went to a farm to see an elderly man who was a tenant in one of the farm cottages. The farmer and his son had got the tractor out and cleared as much of the snow as possible from the 2 miles of farm track and then waited to make sure we could get in. Once we gotten as far as we could, he then gave us a lift in the tractor to the cottage then fetched his 4x4 to take us and the elderly man to back down the track to the ambulance, before following us to back to the road to make sure we got their safely. This was at 7am. Way above and beyond good neighbours/landlord. God knows how we would have moved him without the help.

tanith

I remember once having to carry a 20+stone man down 6 flights of stairs , we were an all female crew (not that that should count of course) his neighbour came out saw us standing looking down the stairs with this large man in our carry chair and he said hang on went and knocked on another neighbours door, so we ended up with 4 of us, each at a corner of the chair, 2 at the top me and a hairy Irishman and 2 at the bottom my crewmate and a young black Rastafarian and a very large one legged Pole sat in the chair, we laughed so much staggering down those stairs its a miracle we didn't kill the poor man... but we got him down safely and to hospital . I don't know wether they did it for the sake of the patient or for the sake of the crew.. but we were thankful whichever it was.. sorry if this is an off topic ramble..

miaggi

I completely agree, having seen places where this is not the norm I'm glad that it is here. I always wish the emergency services good luck in my mind as they drive past me.

SnowMan

I remember waking up inside an ambulance from an unconscious state following a very serious cycle accident, as the ambulance was speeding me to the local hospital. The medical attention that I got at the roadside and by the paramedic in the ambulance may well have saved my life.

I think there must have been a parting of the cars that day as in my morphine affected state I had no realised how fast the ambulance was going until the ambulance slowed down to exit the motorway to reach the hospital, and there was an aircraft like deceleration as it did so.

Now if I am cycling along and an ambulance speeds by, as well as thinking I hope the person inside is as lucky as me, I also experience a strange life enhancing feeling related to my lucky escape on that day. So I can really identify with the blog.