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My personel opinion is that people should be educated to call thier utility company or the company that services the appliance. Trained dispatchers should be able to triage calls from residents, reporting a Co detector activation. If there is no one with symtoms. They should simply be instructed to leave the residence, trun of the device if posible, (furnaces usually have a convient to reach emergency switch.) posibly open some windows, leave the door open, and then call a service person. If the person has a service contract then there will most likly be a charge for the call. FD reponse is a waiste of resources and tax payer money. After wall what is the FD going do? All of the above only they might use some fancy fans to ventilate the residence faster. What is the total cost to tax payers? Perhaps several thousand dollars? What is the risk to the public in departments that insist on responding lights and sirens with multiple pieces of equipment. Not to mention in some areas covered by commercial EMS they may attempt to bill the home owner for the response, (Since it may be covered by there home owner insurence). The reasons most FDs don t want to do any thing about these responses is; 1. The usual what if and liabilty excuse. 2 The disire to keep run numbers inflated, (justifies more staffing and more equipment) 3. Then there is the mentality that every second matters at any cost, as long as we get our adrenaline rush. just o clarify if there are reported symptoms or the call is coming in from an Alarm company with no voce contact then that would require some level of response, according to a departments SOPs.

i agree with 50-65. Let them die they are just another leach on society and thier own families. May be if enough of them die kids will get the message, as well as saving Tax payers millions....

here is a statement from an emplyees linkedjn acount: Supervisor/Paramedic EMStar Ambulance July 2013 – Present (3 months) Fishkill, NY I am continuing my position as a paramedic field supervisor responsible to oversee daily operations at EMStar Ambulance in the Hudson Valley and Westchester Regions. EMStar Ambulance aquired Care 1 EMS in July of 2013. This division employs 170 employees including both paramedics and emergency medical technicians. EMStar Ambulance is a private, for profit ambulance service that originated in the Philadelphia, PA area and provides emergency medical care and inter-facility transports including ventilators, IV infusion pumps, and cardiac monitoring. EMStar Ambulance now operates in a large area in New York State including Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Westchester, and Putnum counties as well as Pike County in Pennsylvania. Could find much else to support this. no NY Emstar web site that came up for me, Care 1's still up. Now that I think about it I think I saw an Emstar amb. a few weeks ago.

Perhaps responders should be more concerned about driving and the use of lights sirens.

censorship plain and simple.

One idea here is right for sure is that most tax payers don't not know how Fire depts. paid or volunteer are spending there money. I am sure there is plenty of room to save tax payer dollers in Arlington as well as Fairview. No mention of the savings that would be seen by eliminating a ladder truck, an ambulance, may be even an engine and other miscilainious equipment, that is currantly duplicated. Not to mention residents would no longer receive a bill for EMS from Alamo. Seems for working fires and some other alarms CPFD and Roosevelt already respond on 1st and/ 2nd Alarms. So personally I don't think Arlington Tax payers would see much if any increase.