NIMS

I have a question that maybe someone can help me with.

Does NIMS override a fire departments bylaws and sogs.On a medical call.

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Permalink Reply by Oldman on January 26, 2010 at 7:45am

NIMS is nothing more than incident command with a common format.

Does your department have SOG's against using incident command? I am presuming your department doesn't provide EMS services which are provided by a third service. I am also presuming that there was some head butting on a call between fire and medical.

If there is an issue with having a unified command at an EMS call, that would and should be addressed by the administrations of both services. It just takes cooperation between all agencies involved.

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Permalink Reply by Shelly Lovell on January 26, 2010 at 3:53pm

Okay this was the situation we have a guy that is going to school to be a emt but failed the test , We had a call and he always respondes in his personal vehicle so he can be the first one there , The call was a man with chest pains so he ordered the bird to be dispatched then the lz he was sending it to was not a lz anymore due to construction so the asst. chief radioed and told them they needed to devert some where else after the bird had been launched it was 5 min out and the one that had said launch the bird ordered it aborted ( he did both before medical got there ) should he have done this the guy ended up saying he was feeling okay.