Fire and Ambulances Services respond to more than 7000 calls in 2018

Wayne Letang, Station Officer, Fire and Ambulance Services

Station Officer responsible for the Roseau, Castle Bruce and La Plaine districts, Wayne Letang, has revealed that in excess of 7000 ambulance calls were responded to across the island last year.

He presented the data on the activities of the Fire and Ambulance Services for 2018 during a press conference held last week.

According to Letang, although the year was a challenging one, fire officers were still able to continue their hard work in rescue, fire prevention, fire safety and other activities.

“During the year we had in excess of 7000 ambulance calls responded to across the island and an approximate amount is 7284 and that would have represented a slight increase over that of 2017,” Letang stated. 

He continued, “We also had 187 fire calls responded to and those calls were statistics from all over the island which included the various stations.”

The Station Officer added that a number of activities were carried out by the Fire Prevention Unit, “and in 2018 whereas we had a slight decrease in the number of activities that we conducted in the fire prevention unit, but we saw that quite a bit of work in terms of the persons who were affected by training, that increased.”

Letang said approximately 2335 persons were trained in fire safety and first aid during 2018.

“In first aid, we had 417 persons trained and in fire safety and evacuation management, we had 1594 persons trained,” he noted.

As it relates to accident calls, Letang said that the Fire and Ambulance Services responded to 70 accident calls during the year and the Roseau Fire Station responded to 44 of those accidents.

The Fire and Ambulances Services has also started a first-aid certification which trains 4th formers in the areas of first-aid and CPR response.

“We have so far done the North East Comprehensive School, Portsmouth Secondary School, ITSS [Isaiah Thomas Secondary School] , Seventh Day Adventist Secondary and St John’s Academy,” Letang explained. 

He said this year the programme will be introduced to various schools in Roseau and also the Castle Bruce and Grandbay secondary schools.

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6 Comments

  1. Julia
    January 8, 2019

    That sums up to 1 call for every ten persons, whoa! The country is sick or what? There appears to be some type of abuse or the ambulance guys enjoy riding up and down.

  2. A Red Fool
    January 8, 2019

    Boarding an ambulance in Dominica is nothing more than a free taxi ride to the hospital. They have no first aid equipment or training so to me the ambulance service in Dominica is like a bigger version of the taxi service, just that the ambulance is free and in some cases, if the traffic is tight you will more likely get trough the traffic a little easier with their sirens though people pay no regards to the sirens since the police use it when they have prisoners on board or when they late or want to get out of the traffic. So that’s why they may be got 7000 calls. It’s more for the free ride.

  3. Dr. Sam Christian
    January 8, 2019

    Great work Fire & Ambulance Services!

    If it wasn’t for your prompt response, who knows if I would be in the land of living today?
    Thank you Mr. Letang for your excellent report, Sir. I am excited to hear of your 4th Form First Aid and CPR certification.

    Red Cross, Community Disaster Relief Teams, Cadets, civil society, Dominicans & friends of Dominica at home & abroad – such as Patti & Steve Rendell from Salisbury… Let’s fire up that VISION OF MAKING DOMINICA THE TOP LIFESAVING COUNTRY ON THE WORLD!

  4. Sam Christian
    January 8, 2019

    Great work Fire & Ambulance Services!

    If it wasn’t for your prompt response, who knows if I would be in the land of living today?
    Thank you Mr. Letang for your excellent report, Sir. I am excited to hear of your 4th Form First Aid and CPR certification.

    Red Cross, Community Disaster Relief Teams, Cadets, civil society, Dominicans & friends of Dominica at home & abroad – such as Patti & Steve Rendell from Salisbury… Let’s fire up that VISION OF MAKING DOMINICA THE TOP LIFESAVING COUNTRY ON THE WORLD!

  5. Iamanidiot
    January 8, 2019

    Hopfully fire and ambulance staff get training in the future so that when you board an ambulance you can receive a bit of first aid, not just a ride to town. 85% of the times I pass in town those fellas there working on a transport, should they be practicing CPR or something of the sort?

  6. playboy
    January 8, 2019

    Of all the almost 20 calls per day for the year, it seems that the vast majority were free transportation to PMH and back by the ambulances. FREE,FREE, FREE,FREE!!!!! Smh.

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