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Chocolate boy
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The thing is, were not an emergency service but we do respond to emergencies. In the view of many TO's at my outstation, we need to get to incidents as quickly as possible. I have been to many incidents where i have got there before police have. In some instances for reasons i wont go into someone of authority needed to be there seconds after it happened, an example you could think about is youtube.
Gaining access is slowly getting easier as people begin to realise when orange lights are behind them that we need to get through so they move, blues on the front would just make it easier still. Second, some TO's against proc's use reds only in RRB's because in their experience, amber and red is ignored. Having blues for RRB's only would, many say, improve things but TBH the rules on reds usage is floated already by so many across the country that we couldnt be trusted with blues for "RRB's only" as some would use them for anything and then there would be a thread on "REAR BLUES" that would be 28 pages long.
i strongly feel that sirens should be fitted asap for when we travel the HS, amber or blue lights on the front makes no difference when travelling the HS if the MOP who opens his door isnt looking in his mirror. so far we have been lucky but its only a matter of time before a mops arm is taken off by one of us. Yes yes i know 20 mph max but even at 20, if they open the door at that exact second, its off.
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Nighthawk
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| THE ROAD CLOSER wrote: | | " WE ARE NOT AN EMERGENCY SERVICE BUT WE DO RESPOND TO EMERGENCIES",Is that not a contradiction in terms?.How can we respond to emergencies and not be an emergency service. I thought we went to scenes to implement traffic managment not to deal with emergencies.Surely that is the domain of the BIB,Fire service and Ambo etc. |
Something to think about... A pair of ladders have been reported in lane 3 of a 4 lane stretch of carriageway. It doesn't require traffic management ie: coning off, but it does require a rapid response as debris can kill. I for one would be making way as quickly, as safely, as legally as poss. I agree B&T's would help.
Another... RTC lane 2 & 3.. Persons reported.. Incident on a particular bad stretch of the network where the scene is sheilded by a bend in the road. Ok, I know ETM will be deployed.. Whilst on route, an update comes from the RCC that Police are tied up on another incident.. It's down to you to make the scene safe for the other emergency services that are on route. This is a real incident, one that I had to deal with. So yes, I did get there as quickly as pos. and again, B&T's would have helped my progress.
So, with that in mind, do you still think that we don't respond to emergencies?
We do respond. We do provide emergency traffic management. We do assist ISU's and other contractors in Traffic Management.
I agree that we should never loose sight of what our primary role is, but the hard cold reality is that the very nature of the environment that we work and the incidents that we deal with means that we should be designated as an emergency service.
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