Community Emergency - "A Day In The Life Of A Metro Ambulance Crew"

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Community Emergency - "A Day In The Life Of A Metro Ambulance Crew"

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Original Air Date: February 27, 1988 on Scarboro Cable 10
Respond with Metro Toronto Ambulance paramedics in Scaborough on a busy Thursday, July 30, 1987 day shift and experience their life saving work and compassion for their patients.
The Metropolitan Toronto Department of Ambulance Services was created in 1975, and absorbed the five remaining private ambulance companies and single provincial service, providing a single, unified ambulance service in Metro Toronto. Known colloquially as Metro Toronto Ambulance or simply Metro Ambulance (although never its official name) the service provided ambulance services from 1975 to 1998.
Metropolitan Toronto was restructured during 1998, transforming it from a regional government overseeing six member municipalities into a single, unified city, and many municipal and regional services were restructured as a result. Metro Ambulance became Toronto Ambulance then Toronto Emergency Medical Services in order to reflect its evolving role from primarily a provider of medical transportation to an actual provider of medical care.
The service introduced its first paramedics in 1984 (although experiments in pre-hospital advanced life support actually began in 1969). Toronto EMS introduced many other innovations, including the concept of dedicated ground-based critical care transport ambulances, as well as many specialty support units described in this article, many of which were originally conceived and pioneered by the service.
Produced by Jeff Long and Greg Grimes
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@musicmanfelipe Жыл бұрын

I’ve been a paramedic since 2010, and I’m fascinated by the “old days” of the profession.

@theogrant528 7 ай бұрын

My back hurts just watching these guys, imagine 20 years.

@butters1273 3 жыл бұрын

Bob Haggarty, senior paramedic with glasses, tragically passed away two years after the filming I read. RIP sir.

@greggrimes4252 3 жыл бұрын

Yes it was sad to hear of Bob's passing so soon after retiring from his dedicated career. I remember the Toronto Sun wrote a wonderful tribute to Bob and his distinguished years of service as a caring medical professional. RIP Bob

@greggrimes4252 3 жыл бұрын

@@Saucy-ws6jc Yes coincidentally Bob and Tim were the ambulance crew in the police episode.

@greggrimes4252 3 жыл бұрын

@@Saucy-ws6jc yes I was the Producer and pitched the idea to do the ride alongs. At the time it was unheard of and took a lot of work to get the approvals and buy in from our station and the different services.

@butters1273 3 жыл бұрын

@@greggrimes4252 this was done well before COPS! Great job Greg! The quality is awesome!

@marioiacolucci 2 жыл бұрын

@@greggrimes4252 he was a good guy

@markkernen322 3 жыл бұрын

Did this for 36 years in Toronto and used that Number 30 stretcher for 20 of them. My back still hurts.

@amgkid3105 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service

@JPOC226 3 жыл бұрын

I see some videos taken in the last 5 years of FDNY and LAFD Paramedics using old-school ones like those still... If it aint broke dont fix it?

@deansmith8471 3 жыл бұрын

I love my modern power gurney at work... watching them using them old "cots" is giving me nightmares lol

@lindathrall5133 3 жыл бұрын

OH HOW I LONG TO CARRY MY DAD'S O2 KIT WHEN HE WAS ALIVE I WANT TO CARRY THE O2 KIT ONE LAST TIME AND SAY DAD I CARRY THIS FOR YOU

@animal79thecat 2 жыл бұрын

@@JPOC226 Major Back Injury reporting for duty...sah!

@chrisorr4087 3 жыл бұрын

I can't get over that old scarboro fire truck! Looks so different from the trucks they have today

@bmi73 3 жыл бұрын

The old Lady in her 90‘s was born in the 19th century.

@terrydruste9056 3 жыл бұрын

This was in the late 1980s, but I remember the two-tone siren on ambulances all through much of Ontario from about 1973/4 and into about the early 1980s. Those ambulance units with the blue stripe down the side middle of the van. You could always tell apart an ambulance from other emergency vehicles because of that sound. If I could express it in words it kind of went "doo dult, doo dult" over and over. They were kind of cool looking and sounding. Soon after it went back to the usual wail/yelp siren sound that has been around for so many decades. Most likely these guys were in those types some years earlier.

@BlackieFoxxless 2 жыл бұрын

Which siren model was it?

@terrydruste9056 2 жыл бұрын

Hello, I don't know the model type, but I can give you a couple youtube videos that would somewhat demonstrate what I mean. The first one is a look at this type of ambulance and the siren sounds right at the beginning of the video, but its inside the station, so it doesn't have a great sound, or the device recording it was bad. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrWAmNl1prbFgps.html The other video is from a first aid film in the mid-70s. It's part 4 of 4, but you don't have to watch the whole thing, skip over to about time 7:40 and you will hear the ambulance siren in the background coming to the scene - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sL2aiMelqpuVmXk.html It's very hard to find this type of siren on videos, even though it was around for a number of years. Please let me know if you have any info on this model type.

@shnorth888 3 жыл бұрын

Love the old Dodge Ram van ambulances.

@ronstrulic4388 3 жыл бұрын

The company I worked for eons ago, we called our Dodge Ambulance the Whale. They were awful to work in.

@eat_a_dick_trudeau 3 жыл бұрын

Those type 2s were brutal, especially the low roof ones.

@markkernen322 3 жыл бұрын

They were fun to drive but with the federal siren on the roof they were really loud and I have the hearing aids now to prove it.

@Barista125 3 жыл бұрын

@@ronstrulic4388 Those Ambulances don't 🚑have the safety as the newer ones today. Those Dodge Ram Ambulances are not safe to drive because if you get an accident you probably will be seriously injured or dead because they don't have the features they have today.

@ronstrulic4388 3 жыл бұрын

@@Barista125 it's not that they were unsafe and of course anything newer is going to have better safety features. They we just a very cramped space to work in and the cab was weird with the tiny step and a huge wheel well you had to get over to get in.

@jasonrodger3942 4 жыл бұрын

Crazy that not much has changed. Everything is literally the same for us in EMS. Shitty equipment, run code 3’s then an IFT.

@carterlife0625 3 жыл бұрын

I know it’s like weird how much we rely on technology

@br4v0s1x7 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta love that 80's music

@marioiacolucci 3 жыл бұрын

What happened to ray and the paramedics help

@derrickw3021 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing professionalism !

@marioiacolucci 5 жыл бұрын

Like how the the van was washed

@jasonrodger3942 4 жыл бұрын

Mario Iacolucci shit up

@dianarendon5845 21 күн бұрын

This was also the “heyday” of the AIDS and crack epidemic. Bob sure took his job seriously, yet while still maintained some bit of sense of humor for his patients…. @4:21 when he said, “you still have a good sense of humor eh? Rest happily Bob and the good ol’ 80s era.

@susanlorraine2267 Жыл бұрын

Thankyou emergency squad for all the great work you do for us everyday most appreciated.Take care.

@bmasters1981 4 ай бұрын

From what I've seen so far, that hit NBC medical/action series of the 70s, Emergency!, is very close to what I'm seeing here from Toronto in 1987.

@drf8879 Жыл бұрын

Love the massive woodgrain center console... i miss that stuff

@shermanhatch2716 3 жыл бұрын

The classic FDNY siren! 🚨🚑🚒

@lindathrall5133 4 жыл бұрын

THE CANADIAN PARAMEDIC GUARDS ARE NEAT TO WATCH THEY PRACTICE GOOD GUARD DUTY

@coltonjohnson5797 6 жыл бұрын

This is awesome

@debianlinux8661 5 жыл бұрын

Colton Johnson th

@Goober10584 5 ай бұрын

I wonder if CNAs and "nurses" back then at nursing homes also told them the lines, "not my patient, I just got here" or "Idk, they were fine 20 minutes ago".

@mgaeeeee9150 4 ай бұрын

"His nurse is on break"

@climbthatmountain 6 жыл бұрын

Very nice program.

@marioiacolucci 3 жыл бұрын

I used to like the Dodge Ram ambulances

@phillipstevens8672 3 жыл бұрын

I remember when Scarborough Cablevision brought this out

@joffryvangrondelle 3 жыл бұрын

You wonder why the don't use the roll -in-and-out ambulance gurneys/stretchers who were widely available also back then in the 80-ies... would have saved some backs..

@razrramonel4077 3 жыл бұрын

Besides the Emergency Medical Technicians, there are also Paramedics that drive Flight Cars because Paramedics are allowed to administer the drugs used to keep patients alive long enough to get to the hospital.

@Matthewsmacku 3 жыл бұрын

Real heroes

@lindanwfirefighter4973 3 жыл бұрын

So little equipment. No monitor. Lol the good old days when you could get 3 months training an work on the ambulance.

@lovemetal2 4 жыл бұрын

We can't disclose names. Paramedic- you ok Mary? Anything else I can do for you Mary? Does it hurt here Mary? Kills me he talks about St.John Ambulance,I'm a Advanced Medical First Responder with them. I wish I was around in the days when they ran city wide ems calls and trained paramedics. I would have loved to have been adult age during those times lol born alittle to late lmao also them fuerno 30 stretchers are a bitch,we use them at st.johns to this day. And I respect anyone who used these on everyday ems calls,we use area quite abit but nothing close to full time ems. Props to anyone who busted their backs using these everyday lol my hat is off to you.

@rileycoyote4924 3 жыл бұрын

You can't disclose full names, first names are not enough of a giveaway to disclose someone's identity.

@sterlingodeaghaidh5086 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone who can deadlift a stretcher with a full-blown adult in it, even with a partner deserves a coffee and a well-earned day off. I used a self-loader in my stent at a funeral home and that was a bitch with an average person in it. Imagine someone over 300 lbs (136 kilos).

@Anonymous551656 3 жыл бұрын

Hold up, St John Canada still has lift-in stretchers in use?! That's a manual handling nightmare. Here in St John Australia I thought our busted-ass Ferno 26T self-loading stretchers were antiquated lol

@eat_a_dick_trudeau 6 ай бұрын

What's Mary's last name? I'll wait.

@jbeaverhausen3809 2 жыл бұрын

Rumour has it, they're still using the VERY same orange sheets and blankets today.

@marioiacolucci Жыл бұрын

Love the old dodge ram ambulance from back then red and white

@SIGINT007 3 жыл бұрын

See, they are just ambulance drivers! 😂

@marioiacolucci Жыл бұрын

The good old days

@bernardshearing3202 3 жыл бұрын

If that guy is not a Newfie somethings wrong.

@kmann6431 Жыл бұрын

Why ?

@pizzasubs 3 жыл бұрын

apologfize if I missed the meaning for this, but inside the ambulance what dis he actually use those CD's For and if correct that Ambulance they were using, wasnt that the same kind of ambulance that they used in the move The Cannonball run, the one were they installed if correct SIX gas filler holes in it and they actually raced it first clear across the country with speeds well over 120 miles per hour, then after that they used the same ambulance in the movie......

@robrivait8545 3 жыл бұрын

Very primitive care for being paramedics, here in the United States in the same era 1980s our paramedics were way more advanced than the Canadian paramedics. The US paramedics had heart monitors, defibrillators, intubation equipment, allowed to start IVs and give medications amongst many other tasks

@realmofstratford 3 жыл бұрын

They had ALS in Toronto, it just want everyone.

@markkernen322 3 жыл бұрын

That was just prior to paramedicine and these guys were primary care only.

@markkernen322 3 жыл бұрын

Just to add, medics worked downtown and never came out to the suburbs. Working at 12 stn. we never saw them.

@m.taylor 5 ай бұрын

Why don't they have pull out foldable ramps at the back of the ambulance to easily push a stretcher into it rather than having to lift the stretcher each time?

@juliogonzo2718 Жыл бұрын

Poor ol' wheezy dodge lol

@joshuabulger3156 6 жыл бұрын

I never seen this be for I like it

@mobrien160 6 жыл бұрын

Yes

@marioiacolucci 4 жыл бұрын

What happened to these guys

@greggrimes4252 3 жыл бұрын

@@marioiacolucci Bob retired shortly after the show was edited and died of cancer not long after. I am not sure of Tim and whether he finished his career with Metro Toronto.

@marioiacolucci 3 жыл бұрын

@@greggrimes4252 okay thanks

@ebfarfell 3 жыл бұрын

I worked with Tim a few times in the 90s, he retired

@bmedic2082 3 жыл бұрын

Can someone please tell me what is going on with the disc looking thing at 1:51?

@greggrimes4252 3 жыл бұрын

The disc was recording vehicle speed and whether their lights and siren were activated while they were in motion. The paper disc turned slowly with a needle/pen recording the activity on a time line. A new one was put in at the start of shift and filed afterwards.

@bmedic2082 3 жыл бұрын

@@greggrimes4252 Very interesting! I'm guessing it was used to make sure they weren't speeding or even running hot too fast? And thanks for answering btw. I always love these old school 70's/80's/90's fire and EMS videos.

@ebfarfell 3 жыл бұрын

Paper tachographs. Always went "missing" if you drove too fast.

@grantpurdy4137 3 жыл бұрын

@@ebfarfell yep. Those pesky tach cards also had a way of “spinning” a lot didn’t they ! Lol. Oh the good old days....

@Lonewolfpack Жыл бұрын

I have been permedic sense 2011

@lindathrall5133 3 жыл бұрын

LOOK AT THESE PARTICULAR GUARDS THEY ARE GOING INTO ANOTHER AREA TO HELP ANOTHER PAIR OF PARAMEDIC GUARDS FOR GUARD DUTY

@theogrant528 7 ай бұрын

Their backs... not missing the old stretchers.

@commanderb-tron931 7 күн бұрын

That's a BLS Unit!? Just asking because they have no ALS equipment and don't seem run emergency calls... 🤷

@stevenbarron4737 3 жыл бұрын

The driver guy looks burned out lol

@aldouglas975 3 жыл бұрын

Dont judge unless you no someone He is a hell of a human being

@ebfarfell 3 жыл бұрын

Tim was a very nice guy.

@grantpurdy4137 3 жыл бұрын

@@ebfarfell are they both still alive ? They seem like nice guys. I work in Lambton County and am in my 27th year. I miss those days.

@marioiacolucci Жыл бұрын

@@ebfarfell where is tim now

@mgaeeeee9150 4 ай бұрын

@aldouglas975 well he does. It doesnt mean he's not "a hell of a human being". I've worked with medics who were absolutely awesome people, but they were burnt. To this day even. Actually for some reason, a lot of the new kids coming out college burn out A LOT quicker, like four or five years into it they're already looking for something else to do.

@ohmosso 3 жыл бұрын

Who’s the guy driving all day? Coyle?

@aldouglas975 3 жыл бұрын

In Toronto it was up to how partners did the driving/pt care some did day for day other call for call.

@ebfarfell 3 жыл бұрын

I preferred 6 and 6

@realmofstratford 3 жыл бұрын

If you’re downtown, HBD for HBD

@markkernen322 3 жыл бұрын

My partner and I worked day for day. Some people did six and six or call for call.

@Truck12300 7 ай бұрын

My god..😮 stretcher’s used to be jokes..😂

@marioiacolucci 3 жыл бұрын

What happened to these guys

@davidstruble9108 Жыл бұрын

The guy with glasses passed away two years after this video.

@marioiacolucci Жыл бұрын

@@davidstruble9108 I'm sorry to hear that what about the other guy

@anthonyholmes195 3 жыл бұрын

Why do they run the siren momentarily rather than constantly?

@MoparGuy1625 3 жыл бұрын

If there’s no traffic around why keep the siren on? And also this is like the 80s shit was different then.

@anthonyholmes195 3 жыл бұрын

@@MoparGuy1625 It doesn't take but an unseen vehicle or pedestrian to have an accident,In AR,sirens constantly on

@MoparGuy1625 3 жыл бұрын

@@anthonyholmes195 not in NJ.

@ebfarfell 3 жыл бұрын

We used to blip it on and off, some guys got really creative with the old sirens

@MarcInCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Preserved your hearing

@wiggerj0nes104 3 жыл бұрын

SIR IFT CALL'S R N0T C0DE 3 🚨🔊

@ronaldjoffreveravargas4122 4 жыл бұрын

Mejor que me avisava gusta mucho

@cheech41 3 жыл бұрын

Great job but I prefer the bigger ambulance and that orange gurney needs to go

@wiggerj0nes104 3 жыл бұрын

HEY IN L0S ANGELES CITY & C0UNTY AMBIANCE UNIT'S R 1 EMT & 1 PARAMEDIC 0r 2 EMT's & FIRE DEPARTMENT AMBULANCE IS 2 FIREFIGHTER, EMT's 0r 2 FIREFIGHTER, PARAMEDICS

@edball4906 8 ай бұрын

HEY IN