Comments on: Escambia County Offering Tips On When To Call, Or Not Call, 9-1-1

By: sam

sam — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:42:39 +0000

A lot of the problem is folks that don’t have insurance or money to see a doctor use 911 to get by and put the bill on the tax payers.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:05:53 +0000

As a Firefighter for Escambia County Fire Rescue. Ive heard stories from EMS that receive so many calls on a daily, that they have 10 back to back calls before they can even take a break. Many of the people who call 911 are usually people who call often or who don’t live in this area. The EMS system is so poor because of this, that it makes them quite the job. Remember 911 is used for REAL emergencies and not band aid situations.

By: Wondering

Wondering — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:26:37 +0000

In the past I have had to call for a lift assist when my Mother-in law fell and I was unable to get her out of the floor. I did use 911, is this a proper call or is there another number to call for help from the fire department or EMS?

By: Don cooper a concerned citizen.

Don cooper a concerned citizen. — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:14:09 +0000

216,000 911 calls and 126,000 households in Escambia county.
Who is making all these unnecessary non-emergency calls. If they woul stop the system would work fanfantastic lyle.
A big thumbs up to all in our EMS system.

By: George

George — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:36:11 +0000

People need to use 911 properly.

By: Willis

Willis — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 23:55:03 +0000

Well it’s obvious one of Mr.Twocells (Turcell) problems has raised it’s opinion here.
It must be tough to FIRE the problems when it’s difficult to find any type replacements.

By: Me

Me — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 23:32:10 +0000

So you’re saying “What was discovered was several of these calls were low acuity or non-emergent, resulting in an ambulance being diverted away from a potential or active emergency call.

An ambulance was diverted off of a higher priority call for a lower priority call?

By: Hmmmm...not hardly

Hmmmm...not hardly — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 15:32:32 +0000

I hope your sentiment is sarcastic. Because if not, it’s definitely NOT the reason, nor one of the prolific reasons for the egregious delays in EMS response. You notice the article said, “several of these calls were low acuity, blah, blah…” Several, out of over 200k calls? This program will take years to have an effect, if any, on yhe amount of 911 calls. It’s another, “but but but” moment from a poorly managed ems system to try and deflect attention from the lack of manpower to handle the actual call load.

I have a theory that Twocell is actually a plant so the county can privatize ems after he runs it in the ground.

By: Hmm

Hmm — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 12:18:52 +0000

Perhaps this is part of the reason for the ambulence issues we have had in Escambia as of late…