Police response to my house has varied from 25-45 minutes. That is a heck of a long time to be entertaining unwanted guests.
I have to wonder why a response time of 45 min is needed? I live in a small township up nort, and am an EMT 1st responder, and our time to someone's call be it accident site or home, is about 12 minutes, and the ambulance from a nearby town is averaging 15 to 25 minutes. WTF? Heck, even with no police in our township, the county Sheriff is only a few minutes away.
How screwed up is that? Heck before the first pot of Tea was whistling I'd be knockin down the door to get in. Oh, and yes, I OC on site. I've had some interesting comments on it too. A medic tending to a patient with a sidearm.
I for a party of one 1st Responder will not let our local wolf packs take patients from me on my watch. We have a few very large numbered packs around here, and they're always on the prowl for easy takings and they refuse to learn the difference between a deer on the side of the road, and a bleeding human on the side of the road.
Conversations abound in our groups as to the validity of carrying. Until the scene is secured, there's always a possibility of scavenging predators. Even after a Sheriff arrives, traffic control or personnel control is more the norm for their duties, and many a time our patients are in the woods and out of reach by local law enforcement by at least 3 minutes even on site.
Ponder this you gun haters!
When you come to the nort-woods on vacation, get drunk, and crash your family van into a ditch or woods, who do you want by the side of your child, or even your family pet . . . a bear, a wolf, a coyote, or a volunteer OC 1st responder with a med kit?
The interesting thing about this, is that I volunteer as a 1st responder, and the rules of volunteers is just that . . . we don't have to take the calls.
