Increased demand: what we have done:

• Assessed our current arrangements for responding to water rescue incidents, which we have been consulting with our customers on.
• Continue to respond to life risk medical calls when fire crews can get there quicker than an ambulance. This allows us to get life saving treatment underway as soon as possible. We then handover to an ambulance when one arrives.
• Invested in equipment for lifting casualties from the floor. Helping the ambulance service in this way means they do not have to tie up multiple ambulances at a scene.