06-24-11, Philpott reveals
what Scoggins did NOT tell the
Fire Chief Harold
Scoggins claims that Glendale will significantly reduce the costs to
provide ALS (Advanced Life Support) and BLS (Basic Life Support) services by reassigning paramedics from
existing rescue ambulances to create four‑person paramedic engine
companies at all nine of the City’s fire stations and by using 60 hourly EMT (Emergency Medical Transport)
ambulance operators for transport to hospitals.
But what he fails to
tell the Council is that in order to transport a patient to a hospital, two
paramedics from the engine company must accompany the patient in the
ambulance, and the engine company, now reduced to two-persons, must
follow the ambulance to the hospital!
In this half hour
television interview by Glendale City Councilman Rafi
Manoukian, retired Pasadena Police Chief Bruce Philpott reveals what Fire Chief Harold Scoggins did NOT
tell the Glendale City Council regarding the consequences of the above
emergency event, as well as the fact that 109,
NOT 60, hourly EMT operators are required.