Community Responder Vehicle.
Community First Responders are fully trained volunteers who attend 999 emergency calls in their own community. In the East Midlands, Community First Responders are dispatched by the EMAS (East Midlands Ambulance Service) Emergency Operations Centre in the same way as ambulances.
Because Community First Responders live in the local community, they can often arrive at the scene of the emergency much faster than an ambulance. If they arrive first on scene, Community First Responders can provide assessment and treatment for the patient before the arrival of the ambulance.
They don’t operate with Blue Lights and have to obey all the usual traffic regulations!
Community Responder Vehicle.
Community First Responders are fully trained volunteers who attend 999 emergency calls in their own community. In the East Midlands, Community First Responders are dispatched by the EMAS (East Midlands Ambulance Service) Emergency Operations Centre in the same way as ambulances.
Because Community First Responders live in the local community, they can often arrive at the scene of the emergency much faster than an ambulance. If they arrive first on scene, Community First Responders can provide assessment and treatment for the patient before the arrival of the ambulance.
They don’t operate with Blue Lights and have to obey all the usual traffic regulations!