Vehicle Gallery - Discussion Thread

Isn't that kind of the point of a major incident plan,
As soon as you know you have a major incident you go with the plan,
No point in finding out the kids should have been in hospital an hour ago but are still at the pool cos it's chaos...

foreign wrote: »

How effective would a tent be in dealing with possible chemical burns or breathing difficulties? And the fact we have no responding doctors other than ecrr and wcrr.

The having no responding doctors is an issue alright - but on the wider point - is there merit in what hes saying in having a doctor on scene assessing patients.

Getting back to the having no responding doctors aside from the Cork ones - i think this is something which definitely merits been addressed.

I understand that London has it set up with the air ambulance that the doctors are NHS funded (which would be like the HSE funding doctors over here).

This is possibly something that could be looked into here more.

Would be handy too - if the likes of GPs and local Nurses could be trained as pre hospital emergency responders - i always find the idea that an Ambulance crew could have to dash 40 mins to a scene - but theres a doctor in a surgery dealing with less urgent things* 10 mins down the road.

Obviously of course the best solutions is to resource the Ambulance service properly - but that's the sort of thing that might be considered as a back up to a PROPERLY RESOURCED Ambulance service

*i mean non life treatning stuff - like colds/sore troats etc

foreign wrote: »

Think the ecrr and wcrr won a prize last year which will allow expansion.

Actually just watching An Hour to Save Your Life. The doctor response needs the right teams at hospitals to take over. Interesting stuff.

fair point on the expansion.

however - while the likes of Jason Van de Velde and Dr Hugh Doran - do amazing work.

I happen to personally think that's whats expected of them - is too much for a volunteer.

So i happen to think that this pre hospital doctor thing - is too good an idea to be simply voluntary - and that there should be funding for it.

I wonder if say you take the primary care centre idea - if a pre hospital doctor was a member of the team - would that work????

Goes without saying they need the training for pre hospital care - in fact part of the reason i think whats expected of pre hospital doctors as volunteers - is the colossal amount of training and skills they need simply for the pre hospital role - which is voluntary.

In Uk - i understand that pre hospital emergency medicine is getting to the point its a subspeciality in its own right.

The thinking behind that is pretty sound imo - but you can't have something that's almost a speciality in its own right - and expect it to be

Anyway - that's all for now - and apologies for the off topic

ratracer wrote: »

Yesterday on local radio /media in Galway the politicians were looking or votes by highlighting the lack of patrol cars and paddy wagons in the Salthill district. Hey presto last night the tooth fairy from Garda HQ, or whoever, delivers a new marked Hyundai in the middle of the night to the station. According to local radio, the car had been earmarked for Dundrum but it has now ended up in Galway. Went by the station this morning to see if I could get a pic, but alas the much needed car was out on patrol. I'll keep an eye out in the next few days and see if I can get pics of it up here.

There good few ready to go depot they will be a lot out for paddys day parades show the public they look nice marked in regular markings the ones I saw

can't believe it's taken so long to capture one...

Rawhead wrote: »

I suppose it's a real sign of the times that people are getting excited about a new patrol car that if you were handed the keys of at a rental desk you would beg to change and sulk for the rest of your holiday if you couldn't.It's a bottom of the range, budget ****e heap that is stark proof that accountants now run the public service and cost now trumps every other consideration.

Its an interesting point Rawhead - i don't think id be turning down the keys of a Hyundai or other such car at the rental desk.

BUT.

The interesting point is that if you were to pick your ideal patrol car with the following criteria in mind

1) Very good performance/roadholding - remembering that the car will be for emergency services use and thus will be driven quickly at times, driving to emergencies on all sorts of road conditions in varying weather conditions

2) It would be expected to do 180,000 miles potentially before been changed

3) Should be very user friendly in terms of been a good machine to work with when your responding to 999 calls - at the end off a long 12 hour shift

4) Be capable of the specific task its been asked to do - so no 1.6 diesel on a job like RSU and traffic (remember criteria one)

Would you pick a Hyundai 1.7 diesel with above criteria in mind or something else.

To put it all in perspective though - there is a shortage of cars - so for many just the fact that theres something with 4 wheels been given out is handy.

A Hyundai 1.7 diesel as unsuited as it would seem to emergency services use - is a lot better then been a car down which otherwise would have been the case.

Fully understand where your coming from and actually agree

source wrote: »

Is that the i30 hatchback or tourer?

Tourer

where is the pic gone?

POGAN wrote: »

sorry given the member create its back

Looks great doesn't it.. I'm actually surprised how well it looks:cool:

I see they have a top blue light on the windscreen instead of having it at the bottom..

Lads what's with the AA stickers on them? :P

POGAN wrote: »

I wish it had front light blues were build in as the unmarks do

under the grill like?

carzony wrote: »

Doesnt sound very safe if on a motorway or a busy main road does it lol..

i seen a new focus hatchback and that was well lit up. rear blues in the indicators, huge blues in the grille and a dash light..

Didn't realise they had the hatch focus on the run - I thought it was all estates for the Focus