Yeah, the squad I was with is celebrating its 70th anniversary this coming April, so it kinda predates the issues we’re having now. It has remained a valuable community service, except it’s become an unfortunate necessity, or at least a way to help people avoid the massive costs associated with receiving medical care. Or at least in part.
And I volunteered because I liked to do it. We were fortunate enough to have a lot of folks locally who had the extra time to do it on a volunteer basis, and we ran in excess of 1,000 calls a year, which is a massive cost savings for each of those individuals who needed it. We would staff community events, so they wouldn’t need to pay to have an ambulance on-site.
Personally, I found it very rewarding. I backed out during COVID when my wife was pregnant with kid number two, shit was a bit uncertain, and I gotta look out for my family first. I would never want to work the job of an EMT. One 12-hour shift a week, and one 48-hour weekend shift every few months (on top of being treasurer which was a thankless and awful job) was plenty for me.
EMTs have volunteers?
I unfortunately know someone who owns a metro company and that twat is rolling in cash, dude took 700k in ppp money and it was forgiven
EMTs having volunteers?!? that makes me beyond pissed
Yeah, the squad I was with is celebrating its 70th anniversary this coming April, so it kinda predates the issues we’re having now. It has remained a valuable community service, except it’s become an unfortunate necessity, or at least a way to help people avoid the massive costs associated with receiving medical care. Or at least in part.
And I volunteered because I liked to do it. We were fortunate enough to have a lot of folks locally who had the extra time to do it on a volunteer basis, and we ran in excess of 1,000 calls a year, which is a massive cost savings for each of those individuals who needed it. We would staff community events, so they wouldn’t need to pay to have an ambulance on-site.
Personally, I found it very rewarding. I backed out during COVID when my wife was pregnant with kid number two, shit was a bit uncertain, and I gotta look out for my family first. I would never want to work the job of an EMT. One 12-hour shift a week, and one 48-hour weekend shift every few months (on top of being treasurer which was a thankless and awful job) was plenty for me.