Can EMS go in immediately??
depends on the protocol. In most (all) cases currently EMS cannot enter until secure. Following an airport shooting, protocol modifications allowing an EMS team to follow immediately behind a LE team clearing the area is being looked at.
Not without cover. A favorite muzzie trick is to set off bombs so the first responders entering the scene are blown up as they arrive to treat victims from earlier devices. Or ambush them as they arrive. Some department’s have SWAT team members cross-trained as medics to deal with these situations, but not many.
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N. Hubby is a retired firefighter and they always had to wait on the police to release/clear the scene for them.
Some states they are allowed to carry and will..... albeit 99% of the time cops arrive at same time or before EMS / FD. As well there are different EMS . They can be part of the local emergency services, fire department, commercial companies, or provided by local hospitals. Each one has different standard operating procedures. The non-local government EMS will wait out of the line of fire till cleared to approach . The local city payroll EMS will have a different set of rules ..... our local EMS is volunteer like our fire department and the local sheriff and city chief of PD know they carry for self defense . Small Texas town policy of course may differ from polidiot policies in big city Kalipornia.
My daughter is a paramedic. This person is crazy. You do not run into a live fire situation, just as they don’t run into a burning building. The last thing you need is a wounded paramedic.
We Fire/EMS are told to “stage” if we are dispatched into a dangerous situation. Whether we choose to do so is up to the LT’s (right seat of the truck) discretion.
Our training for the last several years have been based on the lessons learned at Sandy Hook and other incidents that indicate that these shooters give up or kill themselves when confronted.
The general consensus in our department is we go in. Some of our guys are FD/PD and legally carrying. Others might have forgotten to remove their concealed carry when they changed clothes this morning.