BC Medic Boss
Hong Kong Fire Service Ambulance Command
Rapid Responder Unit
Circa 2007
This was the Ambulance Command's first endeavour, and as is typical, they made due with what they had, ergo the somewhat 'plain Jane' car. Not surprisingly, this was an initiative from the frontline Officers and Paramedics, fraught with a great deal of political nonsense and pushback from their parent agency and political masters.
The programme proved a success and subsequent units were considerably better kitted up.
Interestingly (and humbling) was that despite the fact that Hong Kong was modelling their Ambulance Service after British Columbia's, they had had medics on motorcycles for many years, and had the unit above easily six or seven years before BCAS got to it.
Hong Kong Fire Service Ambulance Command
Rapid Responder Unit
Circa 2007
This was the Ambulance Command's first endeavour, and as is typical, they made due with what they had, ergo the somewhat 'plain Jane' car. Not surprisingly, this was an initiative from the frontline Officers and Paramedics, fraught with a great deal of political nonsense and pushback from their parent agency and political masters.
The programme proved a success and subsequent units were considerably better kitted up.
Interestingly (and humbling) was that despite the fact that Hong Kong was modelling their Ambulance Service after British Columbia's, they had had medics on motorcycles for many years, and had the unit above easily six or seven years before BCAS got to it.