Requests for service report - September 2015

TFD Incidents by Initial Dispatch Type

TFD - Incidents	September	2015 (YTD)	2014 (YTD)
Fire	85	1,518	1,175
Emergency Medical	2,964	27,355	25,753
All Other (e.g. hazardous conditions, search and rescue, automatic fire alarms)	552	4,902	4,160
Total	3,601	33,775	31,088

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Technical Rescue team responds for a patient aboard a large cargo ship

At 10:13 am Sunday October 18, TFD responded to a report of a person needing medical care aboard a large cargo ship anchored in Commencement Bay. Operationally, incident command determined that the safest method to move the patient was to lower them in a stokes stretcher to the fireboat Destiny waiting below. 

Firefighters used an on-board crane as fixed directional point and set a two rope system with a tag line to safely lower the stretcher approximately 60 feet. The patient was then transported via boat and ambulance to a local area hospital.