Dallas Fire-Rescue Briefly Ran Out Of Ambulances Thursday
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DALLAS (CBS11) - At one point Thursday afternoon all Dallas Fire-Rescue ambulances were out answering calls or taking patients to hospitals.
According to DFR, they had to go to a contingency plan for about 40 minutes to use AMR and CareFlite ambulances for transport was activated.
Since there are paramedics on fire trucks, the lack of an ambulance would only hamper transport- not care or response time, according to Jason Evans, spokesperson for Dallas Fire-Rescue.
Evans says that the other companies were called to make two runs for Dallas, but before they got to their destinations, they were cleared and DFR ambulances made the calls and the transports.
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