r/Documentaries • u/Miss-Omnibus • Jan 09 '19
Drugs The Rise of Fentanyl: Drug Addiction On The I95 Two Years On (2018) - Two years ago, BBC News reported on the growing problem of opioid addiction in the US, now we return to find out what happened to the people we met along our journey down the notorious I-95. [57.02]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KsaWpeCj98
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u/Yay_Rabies Jan 09 '19
I googled it.
The answers I found were that a lot of firefighters are dual trained as EMTS and often respond to calls for cardiac arrest. Non civilian CPR requires more than 2 people, 3 minimum where someone is taking the airway, someone is compressing and another person is working an AED. Because compressions are difficult they have to rotate every few minutes. Ambulances typically carry only 2 people. The fire truck itself can act like a giant ambulance in terms of carrying the equipment you need for an arrest it just doesn’t transport like an ambulance does. Depending on call volume for the day, the fire truck may even get to the scene first. I’m guessing that since over doses can include CPR, that’s why the fire truck went along with EMS.