ACT Ambulance given to St John Ambulance

Maybe nanzan is confused because in Western Australia, St John’s Ambulance is contracted to provide an emergency ambulance service.

In the ACT, that responsibility falls to the ACT Ambulance Service… which is a arm of Government. St John’s in the ACT only provide first aid services on a ‘hire fee’ basis to Sporting & other major Events. They do not provide emergency response.

The Rural Fire Service, uses volunteer labour, but its management is Government and hence why it is funded by the Government. Considering it provides an emergency response, I’d say there would be no argument for any alternative arrangements.

I don’t think it was picked up becuase it actually happened on Tuesday, when Stanhope was doing a homeless thing. So yeah, it was overshadowed.

The RFS got eight new tankers – part of a fleet replacement program.

It seems like a pretty simple equation to me, and one suspects that nanzan has some affiliation with St John Ambulance.

St John Ambulance provide a fairly basic service that supports services offered by the regular ambulance service.

The ACT RFS provides a front-line service with no substitute.

Move along, theres nothing to see here.

St John in ACT only provide first aid posts at sporting and community events, so the ‘ambulance’ they’ve been given will just be used for this and not for transporting patients. To date they’ve used pop-out caravan trailers, tents, station wagons, etc. to provide their first aid services from.

If they have someone that needs transporting or has serious health issues, they call ACTAS.