Tuesday, May 05, 2009

expensive overlap and duplication

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Paramedics and patients are constantly bombarded with fire services even though we have notified our communications office and asked them to cancel fires assistance. Apparently, according to Mr. Scharf (fire management), our council members implemented this "can't cancel fire services" policy. When paramedics arrive at a scene, fire services are still rushing through traffic with their bells and whistles blaring, to needlessly arrive at the same place as paramedics. Then they are sent back, as we don't need them, although some of them stick around unnecessarily.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Again illustrates how badly mismanaged our system is . The saying where there is smoke there is fire. In this case a useless burning of tax dollars. Sound like it is run by the people who legislated the30km 500 $ per viste ambulance ride for hospital visites. Discusting waste and useless duplication of unnecessary services