[Implemented] Med Commands

[[TC]►Luke™◄]

In real life Med and Res have blue lights - isn't that a form of traffic control? Obviously you can't have a lightbar or anything in lfs, so surely caution signs would replace the need for such a thing?

[[TC]►Ras◄]

IRL, ambulance (usually doctor cars, rapid response vehicles, first responders etc) and rescue vehicles are actually often used for blocking off the lane or entire road an accident is situated on, if a police car havent arrived yet, or there arent enough on scene to secure it only with police vehicles, while the personnel from those vehicles are doing their medical and rescue jobs. So it does make sense if MED/RES do traffic control, and just pretending they are out of the car working on scene as medical and rescue personnel.

[Seven]

Ras & Luke, that's what I thought

[Sinoco]

(2012-11-03 11:18)Ras Wrote:  IRL, ambulance (usually doctor cars, rapid response vehicles, first responders etc) and rescue vehicles are actually often used for blocking off the lane or entire road an accident is situated on, if a police car havent arrived yet, or there arent enough on scene to secure it only with police vehicles, while the personnel from those vehicles are doing their medical and rescue jobs. So it does make sense if MED/RES do traffic control, and just pretending they are out of the car working on scene as medical and rescue personnel.

Maybe this is an area of cultural divide, but as I said in another thread atleast, I've never seen an ambulance do any form of traffic control. Ambulances are there to provide vital medical services, so they generally park in the safest way possible (so that they do not put themselves in danger), while police vehicles and firetrucks block the road. Obviously for the purposes of LFS, they cannot perform a medical role, so we have adopted this pseudo-role.

[KaraK [T]]

(2012-11-03 08:43)Chuck Wrote:  Lol in what country? That expensive medical equipment is only decoration then?

I didn't mean in real life, I meant in-game.
Every time this topic got brought up, admins and others were saying 'the only thing a med does is secure the scene and sit there doing nothing'.
Controlling traffic surely is a part of securing a scene.

[[TC]►Ras◄]

(2012-11-03 12:53)Sinoco Wrote:  

(2012-11-03 11:18)Ras Wrote:  IRL, ambulance (usually doctor cars, rapid response vehicles, first responders etc) and rescue vehicles are actually often used for blocking off the lane or entire road an accident is situated on, if a police car havent arrived yet, or there arent enough on scene to secure it only with police vehicles, while the personnel from those vehicles are doing their medical and rescue jobs. So it does make sense if MED/RES do traffic control, and just pretending they are out of the car working on scene as medical and rescue personnel.

Maybe this is an area of cultural divide, but as I said in another thread atleast, I've never seen an ambulance do any form of traffic control. Ambulances are there to provide vital medical services, so they generally park in the safest way possible (so that they do not put themselves in danger), while police vehicles and firetrucks block the road. Obviously for the purposes of LFS, they cannot perform a medical role, so we have adopted this pseudo-role.

Well its not the ambulances (vans) but other ambulance service vehicles, like i mentioned above. Obviously the ambulances has to be near the patient in a safe way so the paramedics can use it to treat the patient. And this actually suits LFS (TC) pretty well since we dont have vans but do have rapid response vehicles/doctor cars/etc.

[[TC]►Luke™◄]

Tow trucks irl have flashing yellow lights, which I assume is what the 'caution' is, so surely if an ambulance has blue lights, that should act as a caution too?

[railker]

In all fairness, in the real world you never see ambulances or tow trucks snowplowing into up-side-down vehicles in an effort to put them right-side-up again, either. This is not going to be a real-world simulation, but we want to keep what we can grounded in reality, at least.

(2012-11-03 12:53)Sinoco Wrote:  Maybe this is an area of cultural divide, but as I said in another thread at least, I've never seen an ambulance do any form of traffic control. Ambulances are there to provide vital medical services, so they generally park in the safest way possible (so that they do not put themselves in danger), while police vehicles and firetrucks block the road. Obviously for the purposes of LFS, they cannot perform a medical role, so we have adopted this pseudo-role.

While true, I've seen an ambulance pull someone over (citizen's arrest, kinda?) for dangerous driving. You do what you can with the units you have, though FD and Police would usually be first on the scene -- if ambulance is on the scene, they're gonna throw on vests and protect the scene until someone else can. But we just have [RES], so unless we want to make [MED] and [RES] separate and start that ball rolling ... =P