georgetown mass - baby rescued from drowning

[Peteri Szerlagi]

https://www.wcvb.com/article/3-year-old-taken-to-boston-hospital-after-being-rescued-from-swimming-pool/61526943

saved by first arriving off-duty firefighters from Georgetown and Newbury

let me try to explain how lucky this child is - both georgetown and
newbury are small FDs - both operate ambulances - both have approx 10
fulltime staff and 20 parttime staff - its possible that no one was in
the fire stations when this call happened - its possible that both FD
were alerted to the call - maybe with georgetown providing a bls
ambulance and newbury providing an als ambulance - in any case -
georgetown uses 154.325 and Newbury uses 153.815 - both with separate
dispatch centers - both FDs use radio paging systems on those radio
channels - its possible that both georgeton fd and newbury fd had a
off duty member who was very close to the scene and immediately
responded directly to the scene when the pagers activated - with the
rest of the firefighters heading to the stations to get the ambulances

response time could have been 1 to 2 minutes - which is huge

the caller scenario would be - dial 911 - georgetown dispatcher
answers in under 10 seconds - info obtained and pagers activated
within 30 to 60 seconds - then offduty staff runs to their cars and
drives to scene in 1 minute - georgeton dispatcher calls newbury
dispatcher and requests that their FD also respond

and thats how babys get saved

its possible that a newbury firefighter was visiting a georgetown
firefighter and they both responded together

maybe guilfoil will have more details on this case

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