Why fire trucks and not ambulances

Scott in the target morning here on with Tom and -- Good morning gentlemen I would. I'm lieutenant and street side apartment around the Boston thought I'd like get your questions out. Player -- Does it cost more to buy a fired a ladder truck than a dozen ambulance. How what what kind of differential isn't. Between probably coastal million dollars for new that a truck air. Probably a couple 100000 -- handled. Okay so five times the cost how many the guys are are usually on. A call going out for on a ladder truck compared to an ambulance. In most cities and towns -- right now and three what. Great firefighters compare that to order three -- So -- only send out three people on the ladder truck goes out. Okay so no personnel difference basically you're saying.

I may be by one. The army or army out to go to back but. First off this article fire department wants those. Definite candidate apparatus placement personnel appointments are based solely on the ironies of this certain locality as well as the station's.

What do you mean though they are you saying on the specific caller of the fire needs of the the town that it there's --

I must always about how long will it serve mostly minimum requirements for certain do different trucks. I am it depends on the individual community and brought to differences are notoriety. Or personality struck New York City you'll see them -- six and but most communities right now based on budget needs. Are at three and someplace to -- one guy on one hand on a lot of truck Obama. --

Is there we are not. That's -- and a lot of the -- of so happy to call Scott Todd -- a lot of the audience don't believe that anybody is ever taken any. Close -- look at this and come up with a efficiencies and people do it all the time only when forced.

Well -- get their contract just torture and took -- a lot of time I realize -- So basically they're into the city of -- aren't. The fire base needs. With the district -- where they need to deploy their assets put the fire service submerged. We come to respond to every type of call somebody run into yes. -- Larry called what cost firewall -- I'm cap stock going to treat you rename it a fire department responds because nobody else knows -- at all to help them and it.

But it that may be good because there's not much for the fire departments to do in terms of fires now that they dropped almost 50%.

And I really true because the statistics show looking at are based on fire responses they're not -- they are based on. The apple but want to hear all I'm Irish squad Estonia. These significant fire itself has diminished. I'm completely in other words with early response notifications. -- and -- put a viral what are -- the dollar losses aren't. But as our as the told a moderate responses was still going on of one of those things that everyone needs to realize it. That EMS and fire department responding to what is one of those insular basically. And as a taxpayer I looked at it we're achieving economies of scale by allowing people that would normally be sitting -- become more efficient. Because they respond to what calls.

Yeah yeah yeah and that makes that makes a lot of sense to me I'd I'd want to see the guys going out and appropriate equipment and and not be used in the the fire truck. And it looking at the staffing of the two things if for example you run off an ambulance department much more efficiently perhaps and a fire department. Then you would want to have more ambulances so they can do more the calls right.

What other couple reasons why it's a good thing but I department posts are small. If you -- it -- multifamily outs. That it trying to take somebody down and you don't see Fiat from the earth or what you have to carry somebody -- to of people and an ambulance certainly not going to be able to -- all by themselves.

He told you -- can you send a fire truck on every ambulance call because there might be one of those situations.

Most people don't want because it's the most rapid deployment of resources because it'll. But all people get the rapid deployment -- we've heard well. But the number one problem it -- service right now is set or used in its completely inefficient because everybody is using be able to their primary yet position. Nobody goes off to their own doctor anymore. Everyone think Seaver -- room as their primary yet Soviet abundance of -- that's all we really aren't emergencies yeah which statute.

That's -- I was asked -- ambulance for transport for which is really different function then then what EMTs are we got a great topic Lauren talk more about the next hour after we. The -- business -- Steve -- coming up or have a little news update and them little -- go after fitter and more for his defense of the power structure at all costs and WRKO.