A question for everybody out there. Our police want us to leave dead,trapped, MVA victims in the car until they give us the ok to remove them. This can range from 1 to a couple hours. We are volunteer, and recently we responded at 11PM or so. ALS pronounced the victim and PD told us they would let us know when to get the guy out. We all go home, and have to go back out at 12:30 to do the victim removal. Last weekend the same deal at 3AM. So we wait around for 90 minutes for the fatal investigator to arrive from the next county. Of course we are wasting our time and have 18 guys and 3 rigs sitting around in the middle of the night. I think it is a bunch of BS. I know our state laws state we are in charge at an accident scene, but if the guy is dead, maybe it is a police matter? Another thing I don't like. I don't like to leave a body in a vehicle (even if covered up) any longer than neccessary. I would hate to have the victims family or friends drive by knowing we just left the body there to remove later. I would like to extricate and bag the body, and let the PD stay there all day if that is their thing. Does anybody else have these problems?
By the way this policy only seemed to start a year ago or so. Thanks
By the way this policy only seemed to start a year ago or so. Thanks
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