@@EVSkecthCode incorrect on that one. Yeah they’ll get a bill for the ALS (advanced life support transport) but the “escort” doesn’t cost anything. I’ve been on a job where we transported a child trauma across to towns and had an escort by 12 PD units. Doesn’t cost anything for that.
Seeing one of those convoys has to be one of the most heartstopping things to see. You know that someone's in there fighting for their life, and that as many medics as they can fit in there are also fighting for that person's life.
@@bagel_deficient I really wish more people would. With in an area about 1km square of where I live, we have the local police station, fire department, and hospital. When ever I'm out, and hear the sirens, I'm looking in every mirror looking for the accompanying lights. Friends complain I don't have my music loud enough when I'm driving. They quickly shut up when I pulled over for EMS because I heard the sirens.
Answer to a comment. The pumper no doubt had personnel in the ambulance assisting medics, or even driving the ambulance so both medics could provide life support to the child. They ran code so they could retrieve their personnel and get back in service as soon as possible from the hospital. 35 years as a firefighter, did the exact same thing many many times. Great job to The Police for blocking intersections like that!!!! Saw that done a number of times as well. Traffic accidents are the biggest threat to first responders, especially intersections. This was a very professional job by every agency!
OK... and what are the statistics on amount of time saved by driving with emergency lights and sirens? How long do you think giving report at the hospital is going to take? If that engine is involved in an accident, how much longer is it going to take to retrieve the crew from the hospital?
@@firefighterprodigy So explain to me again how the engine should return code 3 to the hospital when they aren't transporting anyone? If you're denying that driving code 3 is dangerous then you need to get off the couch and get an actual job that requires driving code 3 or take an EVOC course. There are days upon days of videos of accidents with emergency vehicles and the benefit of the engine driving code 3 is what? Risk vs benefits... risk vs benefits. High risk, virtually no benefits.
Not likely as Firefighters do not drive Private ambulances in California. Besides needing an ambulance drivers license, there are insurance issues. What is more likely is the firefighter is driving the squad as both medics are going to be in the back of the ambulance assisting the AMR medic.
@@JPINFV The engine is out of service until it is fully staffed and in California this is legal. But you are right as the engine did not need to go code 3 unless the battalion was on some type of draw-down and the engine was needed back in service right away. However, FirefighterProdigy is right in pointing out that your arguing is lame.
@@northerncountymedia3049 You didn't even read what i said, i stated that they wont be doing anything when they arrive at the hospital. I understand having some police cars to clear the road ahead of the ambulance is valuable but 7+ cop cars is not necessary to do that.
EMT here, I have received precisely 1 PD escort on a call: 3 year old drowning victim. We have it in our county's protocols that we aren't to accept a PD escort, because it is actually insanely dangerous if not done right, but there is no way you're telling a cop who just pulled that 3 year old out of the pool that they aren't escorting you; They wouldn't listen if I tried. And as for doing it right, this is about the safest way: Sending PD units to block roads ahead of the ambulance. A rolling convoy is dangerous in cities.
Driving none code is dangerous in cities. I am sure the parents and family of this child were happy with the resources given their child. We did escorts all the time, hell we even did a code 3 transport of a heart transplant patient who got his call there was a heart for him. We trained for it, we practiced it, never had a crash in my 33 years. Glad I'm not in your county, seems rather close minded to me.
I am a Volunteer first responder in my minute town so I know all the Medics out my way by name. I thank you for what you do I know its a very stressful and hard job. Out where I am there is nothing but a 2 lane interstate and open desert for 20 ish miles between my town and the nearest hospital. The Sheriffs out here run escorts all the time down the interstate.
@@JPF941 I can get through traffic just as fast, if not faster, without an escort. It's like people forget that an ambulance is an emergency vehicle with lights and sirens too. Half the time during that escort, I was having to worry about the cops who were flying by me to the next intersection, as I also avoided traffic. It's dangerous.
@@frederalbacon For AMR policy in that area, the ambulance MUST stop at all intersections, including green lights, because people take their "stupid pill" when they see flashing lights and a siren.
In the Netherlands we have trained police for these kind of situations. These guys escort quite a lot of ambulances, vips and such throughout the Rotterdam-The Hague metropolitan area. (ua-cam.com/users/TeamVerkeerDH).
A couple months ago a nearby town had a student pass away after a medical event during Gym class. When the call went out, 2 ALS ambulances and one local PD officer who works as a paramedic in his off time responded to the scene along with the volunteer fire department, the State Police responded with all of their units in that area, as well as the State Fish & Game Wardens that were close by. They also brought in a mutual aid fire department and another couple of ALS/paramedic unit ambulances and worked the patient at the school for a good 45 minutes before getting a pulse back and transporting with a police escort blocking off all the Interstate Entrance ramps along their route to the hospital and getting vehicles to pull over out of the way the entire trip to the Hospital. The student ultimately ended up passing away at the hospital later on in the day, but the entire county worked together to get them to the hospital as rapidly as possible and to give them the maximum number of people who could provide the life saving care the patient was going to need.
If it was that urgent, why didn't they medivac him out? I grew up in a small town with a hospital but it was basic, anytime they had a serious case, they would usually fly the patient out to a bigger hospital.
@@MarkK395 I don't know for sure but usually it's faster to bring them to the local hospital and the helicopter to fly to the hospital and meet the patient there this also gives some time to try and stableize the patient for transport
@@MarkK395 You can't fly out a CPR. There isn't any room in the back of a civilian medical helicopter for the single care provider (maybe 2 in the back if you're lucky to have a bigger bird) to do CPR, much less all of the other ALS skills and even just the other portions of the ACLS algorithm. Also can't provide as high quality CPR in a moving ambulance, unless you have something like a LUCAS device (which is too large to fit in the back of a helicopter).
@@MarkK395 to try and shed some light on this CPR was mentioned and it's true there isn't much room for it in a medivac, but the main reason medivac likely wasn't used is actually ironically time. Depending on the location of the hospital it may actually cost them more time to call the helicopter, establish a landing zone, package the patient and then fly them out to a hospital to just hauling ass in an ambulance. This is why you typically don't see medivacs done in urban areas. The benefit is only really there when you have very long drive times to the nearest hospital. It was also brought up that they may use a medivac from one hospital to another and that's also very true. Hospitals can always give more intensive care than medics in the field, so you will also see a patient go to a nearby hospital for initial critical care while they wait for the medivac to transfer them to a higher care hospital.
I was part of an interagency response that successfully resuscitated a 4 year old on Christmas Eve. The best results are achieved with departments working together 🙌🏻
During my days as an EMT in the NYC*EMS system, we got sent to a 7-year-old choking. Upon arrival, the patient was six flights up. To this day, I don't know where my partner and I found enough energy to run up all those flights of stairs with our equipment. Somehow, we did it. Kids in trouble always put a little more get-up-and-go in you. H/T to AMR, LA CO FD, and LASD. (PS, the kid coughed up the food just after we hit the front door to the apartment, thank God.)
I've been a paramedic and Tactical paramedic for 27 years. 2 times in my career I worked 1 traumatic arrest and 1 baby not breathing.. both times I had escorts of the same proportion. We never got to thank the police for the escort or blocking traffic.
On my first day as an officer, I was told, "There are two things you drop everything for: another officer or a child in a life or death situation. Everybody else can wait."
Jeffrey, your lucky...in 32 years in Law Enforcement, 3 years as a medic in Los Angeles...I've done it too many times to count. it's rough for sure!! Unfortunately, bad things happen to good people. I wouldn't do anything else...Just sayin'...glad to be retired!!!
@J F I've been lucky for sure. I didnt even mention the trauma I saw in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Corpsman. Civilian side...you drop EVERYTHING for an Officer Down..needs assistance and a child...the world stops
My department had a call like that once. Very similar response. Our paramedic firefighter and station chief jumped into the chiefs truck and raced ahead beating everyone else there. The paramedic ran inside, scooped up the kid ran back out as the ambo rolled up, jumped in the back and took off to the hospital. Roads were closed and blocked the entire way to the hospital. Guessing, total time from the call dropping to the AMBO at the ER was barely 7mins, if that.
@@northerncountymedia3049 I know how that is. Where I live we are out in the middle of the desert and Helo's take nearly 30mins to get out here. We had a gunshot victim and he was bleeding out so they couldn't wait for the helo. Our Fire Chief jumped in the Ambo and drove it nearly 100mph with Sheriff escort the 20ish miles to the nearest hospital. He got a call from the medics chief asking why he did that and when told the medic chief just said "Okay nuf said thanks man" and that was it.
I remember Years ago my Son and our Crew of EMTS and Paramedics responded to a Non -Breathing patient. We started O2 and transported our patient 45 mins to the Nearest Hospital. We had State Police at every junction in Pa to speed US up. Our Ambulance in Front , I was in the Chiefs chase Vehicle our Heavy Rescue behind Us. I could see my Son thru the rear window doing Compressions. He did so for the full 45mins. We lost our patient but I was so proud of my Dripping wet from sweat Son. The effort and teamwork of All the responders is so crucial. Time is such a factor. Good Bless.
I got an escort once while transporting. Not a Peds call, but one that warranted a Police presence. It hits different for sure. 1) I’m willing to bet one or more of those Deputies were first on scene and initiated CPR. Definitely changes the game. 2) The Engine was part of the escorted group, as it had the two patrol cars in the intersection that followed it. Risky yes, but certainly calculated, based on the Engineer’s driving. 3) Props to the AMR Sup for rolling with them. Hes not there to take care of the PT - he’s there to take care of the crew. Respect. 4) Can I just say the guy driving that Ambulance took the perfect racing line through the intersection. Smooth, no loss of speed, no body roll in the box. Well done 👏🏻👏🏻
Glad LA Sheriff's still does this. Worked for Care for a couple years and was the driver in a couple of these escort's. No other county I worked in did this unless it was a firefighter or police officer in the back of the rig.
I second this. Worked la county and orange for 14 years… only la county sheriff will do this…. Other agencies if it’s one of their own. Sad but true. Be safe brother 👊🏾
I live in Santa Clarita. Traffic is terrible and becoming worse as more housing tracts are built. I have seen emergency vehicles getting stuck in traffic and having to shut down their lights and sirens to wait till traffic moves.
Sometimes they will cancel when other units are closer since there’s traffic and such. When they get stuck behind a train its called a soul train because it’s taking up time to get to the medical emergency or to the hospital
Never happy to hear about or see anything bad when dealing with kids especially. But it was awesome to see everyone working together like that to do eveerything they could for that child. Bravo
In my home county where I work Fire/EMS, I have a lot of love for my Sheriff’s deputies since they are more than willing to block intersections and get me to the hospital as fast as possible. Great work by all here.
Goosebumps. I'm retired LEO in California and those calls NEVER get easier. I just, well I was going to tell a story but I can't. Maybe in PTSD counseling. I'm not ready, darn it.
This just reminded me one time on the 22 Freeway I got to see a Flying V of CHP escorting a ambulance to the children hospital in Orange. Scary and amazing at same time
Put out the call that you need an escort for a sick child and you’ll get all hands on deck. Every first responder was hot on this one and looking laser focused. Keep rockin!
Hats off to the paramedics! And hats off to the officers! I own a retired 1994 Ford E350 Ambulance and I am always proud of its heritage of giving loving care and service to its patients. Amazing work here, as a infant’s life is most important, and hopefully the child was able to be brought back to breathing status!
Every time i see a trail of cops following an ambulance it makes me so sad yet so proud, whenever you see that you can safely assume it’s a pediatric emergency.
Reminds me of this Christmas when my at the time 3 month old was having difficulty breathing, ambulance got there in sub 2 minutes and had her at the nearest children’s center in less than ten
We ran one like that one time, baby wasn’t breathing and usually response time for us since we were suburban /rural was 5 minutes. But my lieutenant had just welcomed his baby girl into the world. We got there in less than 3 minutes and the baby was in the ER in less than 15.
I've never heard of a code three before I was watching the documentary on Gabriel Fernandez and it touched my heart seeing everyone going all out for him much love to our emergency services
As Jed Bartlett said in the west wing we must give our kids better than we had it. Glad these first responders pulled all the strings to get this baby resuscitated.
From 34 years of experience, the most terrifying event for a LASO deputy is not the fear of being shot, but a "902R, Baby Not Breathing" call and having to ask yourself "Where the hell is that address?" It's happened to me. This was well before GPS and "Google Maps". Luckily I guessed right.
EMT here and a parent of 2. When a child is evolved, everyone responds police, fire and EMS. The police drove ahead to block/clear intersections for EMS and fire is put out of service because they are headed to the hospital to pick up there boys that are working the code/attending to the child in the ambulance.
But here drive the ambulance *first* and then drive all other emercency vehicle *behind* them. In the country Nederland it is opposite - the motorbikes drives in front and stop traffic.
I am a retired paramedic out of washington stathe Washington State and I will tell you everybody everybody these types of calls concerning children and Being a paramedic for so many years these types of calls are very stressful and very emotional And a lot of people don't realize that now firefighters and police officers are suffering from the same Type of post traumatic stress disorder or P TSD as everybody knows it that our military is the only difference between the 2 the 2 is our P TSD It's caused by in direct trauma Brahma where the military they're PTSD is caused by direct trauma there's a big difference in the 2
I had something similar happen in my small city in Canada. It wasn't a huge escort, but there was definitely a police car and a paramedic supervisor providing escort. We don't have as bad traffic here, but every second counts. Unfortunately, didn't save the poor kid that day, but the response is appreciated.
First off, thank you first responders. I am sure there is a mother and father that is going through the worst time of their lives and those people are doing everything they can to get the best outcome in the situation. Second, where is this at? Those are great gas prices for southern California!!
All that effort to save a baby’s life. Wonderful! Meanwhile in other parts of the country, some lost souls are enRAGED for being denied the right to kill a baby. Go figure.
Holy crap is that like the Sheriff’s Grandson or Granddaughter in that ambulance!! I’m very happy so many people helping to take the baby to the hospital just like wow either LA County is the greatest county ever or this is a VIPs kid or maybe both!!
Welcome to Los Angeles County....birthplace of the first paramedic program in the world. Still running calls just like back in the days of "Emergency" (TV show). They'll roll like that for any child if resources are available.
The cops are needed for the escort as an emergency situation in getting patient to hospital fast. People driving today do not yield the right of way to emergency vehicles like they should. When they get caught, they simply say they didn't see them coming, so their car stereo was out blasting the siren or they were on that important phone call like they shouldn't have been. I have seen people outright block emergency vehicles in response to accidents & get away with it. Anyone who does that should have their driver license revoked. Keep it away from them for at least 30 days forcing them to use a Uber Ride for their transportation needs.
That happened when I worked as a patient rep in an ER many years ago. Toddler had drowned in a pool. Sadly, she died. But I was right at the receiving door when they brought her in; they passed right by me. It looked like every cop and firefighter in the city came with this child. I ended up quitting though because seeing a dead baby was too much for me. I live in a major city where I’ve seen emergency crews get stuck in our insane traffic, so I can see the need for a police escort. I pray that the child in this video made it though.
@@kattmilk oh ok! Yeah I heard it’s the worst. I’ve heard it from Uncle Lou. He makes fun of Georgia Tech for it too. Yeah, the reason why I asked is, because my niece died from drowning. But, she died at the hospital. Had her on tubes, but she wasn’t going to make. So, when I saw the video and stuff, it sounded like hers.
My wife is an ER nurse. One night, they had a toddler come in with big problems that they couldn't handle. They needed to transfer the kid 20 miles to a downtown hospital. It was after midnight on a slow night, and there were a couple of cops standing around the ER waiting for something. My wife explained the situation and asked if they could arrange an escort for the ambulance. They jumped at the chance. By the time the kid was loaded into the ambulance and ready to go, there were a half dozen police cars waiting outside, and the radio was full of calls of other police cars heading for and standing by at appropriate intersections along the route to run interference. She said that it was the wildest ride of her life, lights and sirens galore, with the escort cars blocking intersections, and then racing past the ambulance to block intersections farther down the road. Even a helicopter wouldn't have been faster. The kid made it.
@@tattooedtexasnurse We are north of the border, and I suppose that the rules differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. My daughter-in-law is also a nurse, and went on another less critical transfer a couple of years ago, without the escort.
@@tattooedtexasnurse Up here, all of the ambulances are government owned and run with two person crews. Hospital staff will sometimes go along to help when transferring critical patients.
Thats a big response! Great work on all of them for working quickly! I understand this was for a pediatric call; living in the United States (not everywhere obviously, but at least where I live) if an adult stopped breathing here, the response would be much smaller, limited to one, or no police cars, one bls Ambulance and a FD's squad/service rig, and MAYBE an unmarked FP for traffic. After seeing this, Im so glad they were able to help that baby! I feel warmer knowing responses are bigger elsewhere, at lease for children! 🤍
Just because one place does it like this and somewhere else does it another way doesn’t make either right or wrong. Appreciating the safety is one thing and getting that child to the hospital is another. Do what works in YOUR response district. ------> EMT/FIREFIGHTER with 14 years of service
I work in Riverside County, I had one about a year ago. PD literally told me as I was jumping in my box, "Do not stop for lights we got it." I got a full escort to the hospital. Next couple things, 1. For those out there who don't know 99% of Fire departments in SoCal are ALS (firefighter paramedics) 2. The reason for fire to ride in the ambulance, there is so much to do in the back. (breathing for a pt as they aren't breathing, medication administration, CPR as if the baby's not breathing it's most likely in cardiac arrest, AND CPR IS EXHAUSTING so long transport means people need to switch.) 3. LA county (as well as Orange County) Fire is the prehospital medicine lead and so LA County mainly has BLS (EMTs only no Medic) ambulances. 4. This is actually EXTREMELY common for any Pediatric arrest. 5. The engine was probably ALS, if not EMTs are great for CPR and as mentioned above CPR is exhausting.
I'm from England and this type of call is one that is also going to get a doctor rolling either from the ambulance service trauma car or helimed, our helimed can listen in on incoming emergency calls and either interrupt to ask questions or give advice or self deploy and won't wait for a prepared landing area, they even landed in the centre of the piece hall in Halifax, Yorkshire, while it was open
@@stevenbowers4164 Sadly we do not have a helimed system like in Europe. Helicopter response here does not bring a higher level of care, just a faster transit to a hospital, which is typically only used in trauma/critical cases in rural areas that may be several hours by road to the nearest major medical center. The guys in the back of the helicopter are typically just paramedics with maybe advanced life support personnel.
At that moment, the baby had Dozens of Fathers & Mothers!!! Every EMT/Paramedic, Deputy, and Hospital ER staff now had a baby who wasn't breathing!! (Because that how they were thinking!)
Honestly seeing this brings me back to 2007 when my baby sister past away I remember seconds after the call the whole city lit up I remember two police officers running in the front door snatching her from my mother and turning around running while doing cpr going down a hill where all the lights came around the corner as a kid I always said how did they get here before anyone else just seeing this video tells me the world will stop for a baby at least here in America 🥹🫶🏿
Fair play. The Americans know how to do resources. In the UK you wouldn't even get a police escort. It's just not the done thing. In several years on the ambulances I only ever had one police escort.
I mean absolutely no disrespect at all, but I'm not an EMT or anything, so I'm wondering: why? Is it just cause they feel they need to see the case through, or something like that?
That is amazing and truly special, above and beyond medical care.
and it'll cost the family only 200K! Lets go america!
@@EVSkecthCode ever heard of health insurance? Won’t cost them more than 100-150 bucks most likely.
@@dillydilly7722 ever heard of the cost of insurance itself? get real son
@@EVSkecthCode sad you would worry about the money over your baby’s life
@@EVSkecthCode incorrect on that one. Yeah they’ll get a bill for the ALS (advanced life support transport) but the “escort” doesn’t cost anything. I’ve been on a job where we transported a child trauma across to towns and had an escort by 12 PD units. Doesn’t cost anything for that.
Nice seeing all these departments working together to save this baby's life.
50 years later: Son, do you know i had an entire departments escorting my ambulance when i wasnt breathing?
@@enzoyanson2209 THIS IS THE BEST COMMENT
@@enzoyanson2209 that's what I came here to say. If that baby made it, going to be able to see this when he gets older. Really special.
AMR is a private/profit company.... not a department of anyone.
@@michaelmccarthy4615 they are their own department
Seeing one of those convoys has to be one of the most heartstopping things to see. You know that someone's in there fighting for their life, and that as many medics as they can fit in there are also fighting for that person's life.
@@bagel_deficient I really wish more people would. With in an area about 1km square of where I live, we have the local police station, fire department, and hospital. When ever I'm out, and hear the sirens, I'm looking in every mirror looking for the accompanying lights. Friends complain I don't have my music loud enough when I'm driving. They quickly shut up when I pulled over for EMS because I heard the sirens.
Yeah I feel for the professionals onboard as well. You know damn well that was a call they won't soon be forgetting
Heart pumping 💯❤️✌🏽
They’re not fighting for their lives…..they’re getting saved.
Answer to a comment. The pumper no doubt had personnel in the ambulance assisting medics, or even driving the ambulance so both medics could provide life support to the child. They ran code so they could retrieve their personnel and get back in service as soon as possible from the hospital. 35 years as a firefighter, did the exact same thing many many times. Great job to The Police for blocking intersections like that!!!! Saw that done a number of times as well. Traffic accidents are the biggest threat to first responders, especially intersections. This was a very professional job by every agency!
OK... and what are the statistics on amount of time saved by driving with emergency lights and sirens?
How long do you think giving report at the hospital is going to take?
If that engine is involved in an accident, how much longer is it going to take to retrieve the crew from the hospital?
@@JPINFV Are you serious? You're really trying to argue this? Get off the couch and do something with your life.
@@firefighterprodigy So explain to me again how the engine should return code 3 to the hospital when they aren't transporting anyone?
If you're denying that driving code 3 is dangerous then you need to get off the couch and get an actual job that requires driving code 3 or take an EVOC course. There are days upon days of videos of accidents with emergency vehicles and the benefit of the engine driving code 3 is what?
Risk vs benefits... risk vs benefits. High risk, virtually no benefits.
Not likely as Firefighters do not drive Private ambulances in California. Besides needing an ambulance drivers license, there are insurance issues. What is more likely is the firefighter is driving the squad as both medics are going to be in the back of the ambulance assisting the AMR medic.
@@JPINFV The engine is out of service until it is fully staffed and in California this is legal. But you are right as the engine did not need to go code 3 unless the battalion was on some type of draw-down and the engine was needed back in service right away. However, FirefighterProdigy is right in pointing out that your arguing is lame.
Respect for our first responders . They didn’t have to do all of that but they did anyways to give a better chance at saving a baby’s life
Its a requirement to help that baby! No one wants anyone to hurt especially our new generation babies
@@northerncountymedia3049 it’s a requirement to render aid, not escort an ambulance- is what I believe OP was talking about.
@@northerncountymedia3049 yeah the 10 police cars following the baby will do soooo much when they get to the hospital
@@squigglycups5666 without those police cars it will take the fire dept longer to get to the hospital so yeah they would be doing a lot lol
@@northerncountymedia3049 You didn't even read what i said, i stated that they wont be doing anything when they arrive at the hospital. I understand having some police cars to clear the road ahead of the ambulance is valuable but 7+ cop cars is not necessary to do that.
11 years I spent as a paramedic. Never once did I get that kind of escort for an unresponsive, apnic infant. This warms my heart to see.
Slow day I guess lol
@@RedNuii must be nice! Lol
EMT here, I have received precisely 1 PD escort on a call: 3 year old drowning victim. We have it in our county's protocols that we aren't to accept a PD escort, because it is actually insanely dangerous if not done right, but there is no way you're telling a cop who just pulled that 3 year old out of the pool that they aren't escorting you; They wouldn't listen if I tried.
And as for doing it right, this is about the safest way: Sending PD units to block roads ahead of the ambulance. A rolling convoy is dangerous in cities.
Driving none code is dangerous in cities. I am sure the parents and family of this child were happy with the resources given their child. We did escorts all the time, hell we even did a code 3 transport of a heart transplant patient who got his call there was a heart for him. We trained for it, we practiced it, never had a crash in my 33 years. Glad I'm not in your county, seems rather close minded to me.
I am a Volunteer first responder in my minute town so I know all the Medics out my way by name. I thank you for what you do I know its a very stressful and hard job. Out where I am there is nothing but a 2 lane interstate and open desert for 20 ish miles between my town and the nearest hospital. The Sheriffs out here run escorts all the time down the interstate.
@@JPF941 I can get through traffic just as fast, if not faster, without an escort. It's like people forget that an ambulance is an emergency vehicle with lights and sirens too. Half the time during that escort, I was having to worry about the cops who were flying by me to the next intersection, as I also avoided traffic. It's dangerous.
@@frederalbacon For AMR policy in that area, the ambulance MUST stop at all intersections, including green lights, because people take their "stupid pill" when they see flashing lights and a siren.
In the Netherlands we have trained police for these kind of situations. These guys escort quite a lot of ambulances, vips and such throughout the Rotterdam-The Hague metropolitan area. (ua-cam.com/users/TeamVerkeerDH).
A couple months ago a nearby town had a student pass away after a medical event during Gym class. When the call went out, 2 ALS ambulances and one local PD officer who works as a paramedic in his off time responded to the scene along with the volunteer fire department, the State Police responded with all of their units in that area, as well as the State Fish & Game Wardens that were close by. They also brought in a mutual aid fire department and another couple of ALS/paramedic unit ambulances and worked the patient at the school for a good 45 minutes before getting a pulse back and transporting with a police escort blocking off all the Interstate Entrance ramps along their route to the hospital and getting vehicles to pull over out of the way the entire trip to the Hospital. The student ultimately ended up passing away at the hospital later on in the day, but the entire county worked together to get them to the hospital as rapidly as possible and to give them the maximum number of people who could provide the life saving care the patient was going to need.
If it was that urgent, why didn't they medivac him out? I grew up in a small town with a hospital but it was basic, anytime they had a serious case, they would usually fly the patient out to a bigger hospital.
@@MarkK395 I don't know for sure but usually it's faster to bring them to the local hospital and the helicopter to fly to the hospital and meet the patient there this also gives some time to try and stableize the patient for transport
@@MarkK395 *MedEvac
@@MarkK395 You can't fly out a CPR. There isn't any room in the back of a civilian medical helicopter for the single care provider (maybe 2 in the back if you're lucky to have a bigger bird) to do CPR, much less all of the other ALS skills and even just the other portions of the ACLS algorithm. Also can't provide as high quality CPR in a moving ambulance, unless you have something like a LUCAS device (which is too large to fit in the back of a helicopter).
@@MarkK395 to try and shed some light on this CPR was mentioned and it's true there isn't much room for it in a medivac, but the main reason medivac likely wasn't used is actually ironically time. Depending on the location of the hospital it may actually cost them more time to call the helicopter, establish a landing zone, package the patient and then fly them out to a hospital to just hauling ass in an ambulance. This is why you typically don't see medivacs done in urban areas. The benefit is only really there when you have very long drive times to the nearest hospital. It was also brought up that they may use a medivac from one hospital to another and that's also very true. Hospitals can always give more intensive care than medics in the field, so you will also see a patient go to a nearby hospital for initial critical care while they wait for the medivac to transfer them to a higher care hospital.
I was part of an interagency response that successfully resuscitated a 4 year old on Christmas Eve. The best results are achieved with departments working together 🙌🏻
prayers for the baby, the parents and all those who responded and shown indirect and direct care.
During my days as an EMT in the NYC*EMS system, we got sent to a 7-year-old choking. Upon arrival, the patient was six flights up. To this day, I don't know where my partner and I found enough energy to run up all those flights of stairs with our equipment. Somehow, we did it. Kids in trouble always put a little more get-up-and-go in you. H/T to AMR, LA CO FD, and LASD. (PS, the kid coughed up the food just after we hit the front door to the apartment, thank God.)
😇 angels have wings, that's how.
The adrenaline. Fight or flight baby.
I've been a paramedic and Tactical paramedic for 27 years. 2 times in my career I worked 1 traumatic arrest and 1 baby not breathing.. both times I had escorts of the same proportion. We never got to thank the police for the escort or blocking traffic.
On my first day as an officer, I was told, "There are two things you drop everything for: another officer or a child in a life or death situation. Everybody else can wait."
Jeffrey, your lucky...in 32 years in Law Enforcement, 3 years as a medic in Los Angeles...I've done it too many times to count. it's rough for sure!! Unfortunately, bad things happen to good people. I wouldn't do anything else...Just sayin'...glad to be retired!!!
@J F I've been lucky for sure. I didnt even mention the trauma I saw in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Corpsman. Civilian side...you drop EVERYTHING for an Officer Down..needs assistance and a child...the world stops
My department had a call like that once. Very similar response. Our paramedic firefighter and station chief jumped into the chiefs truck and raced ahead beating everyone else there. The paramedic ran inside, scooped up the kid ran back out as the ambo rolled up, jumped in the back and took off to the hospital. Roads were closed and blocked the entire way to the hospital. Guessing, total time from the call dropping to the AMBO at the ER was barely 7mins, if that.
Call took a little longer because the baby was initially gonna be flown by copter but didn’t have the time to wait
@@northerncountymedia3049 I know how that is. Where I live we are out in the middle of the desert and Helo's take nearly 30mins to get out here. We had a gunshot victim and he was bleeding out so they couldn't wait for the helo. Our Fire Chief jumped in the Ambo and drove it nearly 100mph with Sheriff escort the 20ish miles to the nearest hospital. He got a call from the medics chief asking why he did that and when told the medic chief just said "Okay nuf said thanks man" and that was it.
I remember Years ago my Son and our Crew of EMTS and Paramedics responded to a Non -Breathing patient. We started O2 and transported our patient 45 mins to the Nearest Hospital. We had State Police at every junction in Pa to speed US up. Our Ambulance in Front , I was in the Chiefs chase Vehicle our Heavy Rescue behind Us. I could see my Son thru the rear window doing Compressions. He did so for the full 45mins. We lost our patient but I was so proud of my Dripping wet from sweat Son. The effort and teamwork of All the responders is so crucial. Time is such a factor. Good Bless.
Really hope the poor little child survived and all this help was not in vain… 🤞🏼
Texas state EMT here. 18 yrs on the truck and counting.
Respect to y’all!! Balls to the wall!!! 🚑💨💨💨
I got an escort once while transporting. Not a Peds call, but one that warranted a Police presence. It hits different for sure.
1) I’m willing to bet one or more of those Deputies were first on scene and initiated CPR. Definitely changes the game.
2) The Engine was part of the escorted group, as it had the two patrol cars in the intersection that followed it. Risky yes, but certainly calculated, based on the Engineer’s driving.
3) Props to the AMR Sup for rolling with them. Hes not there to take care of the PT - he’s there to take care of the crew. Respect.
4) Can I just say the guy driving that Ambulance took the perfect racing line through the intersection. Smooth, no loss of speed, no body roll in the box. Well done 👏🏻👏🏻
Glad LA Sheriff's still does this. Worked for Care for a couple years and was the driver in a couple of these escort's. No other county I worked in did this unless it was a firefighter or police officer in the back of the rig.
I second this. Worked la county and orange for 14 years… only la county sheriff will do this…. Other agencies if it’s one of their own. Sad but true. Be safe brother 👊🏾
Doing whatever it takes to get the job done RESPECT
Hope that baby survived and is on the road to recovery.
On a different note, LACoFD has the best looking engines in the business.
I live in Santa Clarita. Traffic is terrible and becoming worse as more housing tracts are built. I have seen emergency vehicles getting stuck in traffic and having to shut down their lights and sirens to wait till traffic moves.
Sometimes they will cancel when other units are closer since there’s traffic and such. When they get stuck behind a train its called a soul train because it’s taking up time to get to the medical emergency or to the hospital
Never happy to hear about or see anything bad when dealing with kids especially. But it was awesome to see everyone working together like that to do eveerything they could for that child. Bravo
In my home county where I work Fire/EMS, I have a lot of love for my Sheriff’s deputies since they are more than willing to block intersections and get me to the hospital as fast as possible. Great work by all here.
Goosebumps. I'm retired LEO in California and those calls NEVER get easier. I just, well I was going to tell a story but I can't. Maybe in PTSD counseling. I'm not ready, darn it.
This just reminded me one time on the 22 Freeway I got to see a Flying V of CHP escorting a ambulance to the children hospital in Orange. Scary and amazing at same time
In New York we call that a thunder run !! It's great when you can get everyone working together great catch
Put out the call that you need an escort for a sick child and you’ll get all hands on deck. Every first responder was hot on this one and looking laser focused. Keep rockin!
Hats off to the paramedics! And hats off to the officers! I own a retired 1994 Ford E350 Ambulance and I am always proud of its heritage of giving loving care and service to its patients. Amazing work here, as a infant’s life is most important, and hopefully the child was able to be brought back to breathing status!
Wow that gave me chills praying for the baby and the family 🙏🙏
Every time i see a trail of cops following an ambulance it makes me so sad yet so proud, whenever you see that you can safely assume it’s a pediatric emergency.
or a cop in the ambulance 🤷♂️
Hell ya, the world NEEDS to stop for a baby. Amazing care and dedication by these First Responders!
Proud of my Brothers and Sisters.
This takes dedication and focus.
Amazing teamwork! What its all about.
I pray for the day when every life is treated with this much respect .
Impressive. Well done, everyone involved.
Awwwwwww look at all the police departments and fire departments responding to a baby not breathing! This is the best video I’ve ever seen.
Reminds me of this Christmas when my at the time 3 month old was having difficulty breathing, ambulance got there in sub 2 minutes and had her at the nearest children’s center in less than ten
We ran one like that one time, baby wasn’t breathing and usually response time for us since we were suburban /rural was 5 minutes. But my lieutenant had just welcomed his baby girl into the world. We got there in less than 3 minutes and the baby was in the ER in less than 15.
Superb turnout. I hope 🤞 it had a happy conclusion. UK 🇬🇧 viewer
As a father I found this video difficult to watch, it actually made me cry.
I've never heard of a code three before I was watching the documentary on Gabriel Fernandez and it touched my heart seeing everyone going all out for him much love to our emergency services
I'm glad we treasure life and everyone pauses to give them a better chance.
Isn't it amazing the lengths we will go to to save a life. Shows that deep down we live in a society that really cares.
As Jed Bartlett said in the west wing we must give our kids better than we had it. Glad these first responders pulled all the strings to get this baby resuscitated.
I PRAY ALL IS WELL WITH THE BABY!!!
GOD BLESS AND PROTECT ALL OF OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN IN BLUE AND FIRST RESPONDERS!!!
From 34 years of experience, the most terrifying event for a LASO deputy is not the fear of being shot, but a "902R, Baby Not Breathing" call and having to ask yourself "Where the hell is that address?" It's happened to me. This was well before GPS and "Google Maps". Luckily I guessed right.
how was the baby? I hope he/she's doing good
Gotta give California one thing. They sure as hell know how to respond to an emergency.
Yessir
I'm not the only one saying a prayer...hope the baby made it.
EMT here and a parent of 2. When a child is evolved, everyone responds police, fire and EMS. The police drove ahead to block/clear intersections for EMS and fire is put out of service because they are headed to the hospital to pick up there boys that are working the code/attending to the child in the ambulance.
The squad always follows behind amr and sometimes the engine if its a medic-engine
this is so awesome
you guys are awesome
Love seeing people do this for people!
Lol the one car alarm at the end
As a medical first responder, I can tell you it's a whole different ballgame when to tones drop for child not breathing or unresponsive!!!
I pray the baby is all right!
Hope the baby pulled through, great job guys
Praying for that little soul🥺
Amazing escort and love the AMR supervisor
I work for AMR in Riverside, ALL pediatric arrests get a sup attached, mainly for us.
There are tons of video of ambulance escorting in Netherlands... police also block intersections in advance to make a safe pass for ambulance
But here drive the ambulance *first* and then drive all other emercency vehicle *behind* them. In the country Nederland it is opposite - the motorbikes drives in front and stop traffic.
aww that is great to see the support from the emergency vehicles, kinda made me tear up a bit
I am a retired paramedic out of washington stathe Washington State and I will tell you everybody everybody these types of calls concerning children and Being a paramedic for so many years these types of calls are very stressful and very emotional And a lot of people don't realize that now firefighters and police officers are suffering from the same Type of post traumatic stress disorder or P TSD as everybody knows it that our military is the only difference between the 2 the 2 is our P TSD It's caused by in direct trauma Brahma where the military they're PTSD is caused by direct trauma there's a big difference in the 2
I had something similar happen in my small city in Canada. It wasn't a huge escort, but there was definitely a police car and a paramedic supervisor providing escort. We don't have as bad traffic here, but every second counts. Unfortunately, didn't save the poor kid that day, but the response is appreciated.
First off, thank you first responders. I am sure there is a mother and father that is going through the worst time of their lives and those people are doing everything they can to get the best outcome in the situation. Second, where is this at? Those are great gas prices for southern California!!
Hope he/she got breathing again. Great teamwork. Very Rare.
All that effort to save a baby’s life. Wonderful! Meanwhile in other parts of the country, some lost souls are enRAGED for being denied the right to kill a baby. Go figure.
Good humanity peoples. Love so much
$6 a gallon no wonder why California is considered the poorest state in America, what a joke
Agree thats why im moving outta here soon 👀
Holy crap is that like the Sheriff’s Grandson or Granddaughter in that ambulance!! I’m very happy so many people helping to take the baby to the hospital just like wow either LA County is the greatest county ever or this is a VIPs kid or maybe both!!
Negative every child call that requires urgent care has an escort like this
Welcome to Los Angeles County....birthplace of the first paramedic program in the world. Still running calls just like back in the days of "Emergency" (TV show). They'll roll like that for any child if resources are available.
The cops are needed for the escort as an emergency situation in getting patient to hospital fast. People driving today do not yield the right of way to emergency vehicles like they should. When they get caught, they simply say they didn't see them coming, so their car stereo was out blasting the siren or they were on that important phone call like they shouldn't have been. I have seen people outright block emergency vehicles in response to accidents & get away with it. Anyone who does that should have their driver license revoked. Keep it away from them for at least 30 days forcing them to use a Uber Ride for their transportation needs.
Agree
Honestly, firetrucks and ambulances should just be reinforced to be able to plow right thru people like that
@@jzero90921 OH trust me we're reinforcing that
Love seeing those old crown vics still in service
did the baby survive.. we don’t give enough praise to our men and women paramedics
Great color/chroma, what camera was used?
Looks like iPhone 11 or newer with 0.5x lens feature. HDR profile looks like newer Apple sensor HDR, too.
It hits different wen it’s a kid
OMG An AMR Supervisor as well!
I love when they actually use their power for good.
Did the baby survive
Bravo gentlemen
God bless you all
amazing catch ! you get so many good code 3 videos
Thank you bro 😎
The fight that’s going on in the back of that box.
respect. thank you everyone!
respect to what they be doing, but why did the firetruck follow along? just asking.
You all are talking about insurance and cost but my question is how is the Baby doing?
That happened when I worked as a patient rep in an ER many years ago. Toddler had drowned in a pool. Sadly, she died. But I was right at the receiving door when they brought her in; they passed right by me. It looked like every cop and firefighter in the city came with this child. I ended up quitting though because seeing a dead baby was too much for me.
I live in a major city where I’ve seen emergency crews get stuck in our insane traffic, so I can see the need for a police escort. I pray that the child in this video made it though.
Where was this at?
@@invizz0ninja Atlanta, one of the top five, worse cities for traffic congestion.
@@kattmilk oh ok! Yeah I heard it’s the worst. I’ve heard it from Uncle Lou. He makes fun of Georgia Tech for it too. Yeah, the reason why I asked is, because my niece died from drowning. But, she died at the hospital. Had her on tubes, but she wasn’t going to make. So, when I saw the video and stuff, it sounded like hers.
My wife is an ER nurse. One night, they had a toddler come in with big problems that they couldn't handle. They needed to transfer the kid 20 miles to a downtown hospital. It was after midnight on a slow night, and there were a couple of cops standing around the ER waiting for something. My wife explained the situation and asked if they could arrange an escort for the ambulance. They jumped at the chance. By the time the kid was loaded into the ambulance and ready to go, there were a half dozen police cars waiting outside, and the radio was full of calls of other police cars heading for and standing by at appropriate intersections along the route to run interference. She said that it was the wildest ride of her life, lights and sirens galore, with the escort cars blocking intersections, and then racing past the ambulance to block intersections farther down the road. Even a helicopter wouldn't have been faster. The kid made it.
Interesting. I’ve never heard of a nurse going wjth EMS on a transfer
Ironically, critical care transport often doesn't use lights and sirens during transport.
@@tattooedtexasnurse We are north of the border, and I suppose that the rules differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. My daughter-in-law is also a nurse, and went on another less critical transfer a couple of years ago, without the escort.
@@tattooedtexasnurse Up here, all of the ambulances are government owned and run with two person crews. Hospital staff will sometimes go along to help when transferring critical patients.
@@rayopeongo oh wow! Okay yeah that’s really cool and probably really helpful. I had no idea
Thats a big response! Great work on all of them for working quickly! I understand this was for a pediatric call; living in the United States (not everywhere obviously, but at least where I live) if an adult stopped breathing here, the response would be much smaller, limited to one, or no police cars, one bls Ambulance and a FD's squad/service rig, and MAYBE an unmarked FP for traffic. After seeing this, Im so glad they were able to help that baby! I feel warmer knowing responses are bigger elsewhere, at lease for children! 🤍
Just because one place does it like this and somewhere else does it another way doesn’t make either right or wrong. Appreciating the safety is one thing and getting that child to the hospital is another. Do what works in YOUR response district. ------> EMT/FIREFIGHTER with 14 years of service
I work in Riverside County, I had one about a year ago. PD literally told me as I was jumping in my box, "Do not stop for lights we got it." I got a full escort to the hospital.
Next couple things,
1. For those out there who don't know 99% of Fire departments in SoCal are ALS (firefighter paramedics)
2. The reason for fire to ride in the ambulance, there is so much to do in the back. (breathing for a pt as they aren't breathing, medication administration, CPR as if the baby's not breathing it's most likely in cardiac arrest, AND CPR IS EXHAUSTING so long transport means people need to switch.)
3. LA county (as well as Orange County) Fire is the prehospital medicine lead and so LA County mainly has BLS (EMTs only no Medic) ambulances.
4. This is actually EXTREMELY common for any Pediatric arrest.
5. The engine was probably ALS, if not EMTs are great for CPR and as mentioned above CPR is exhausting.
I'm from England and this type of call is one that is also going to get a doctor rolling either from the ambulance service trauma car or helimed, our helimed can listen in on incoming emergency calls and either interrupt to ask questions or give advice or self deploy and won't wait for a prepared landing area, they even landed in the centre of the piece hall in Halifax, Yorkshire, while it was open
@@stevenbowers4164 yea, out here they have to be requested.
@PainIsGood80 might be worth asking about arranging for a LUCAS device to be carried in the vehicle that the advanced paramedics or trauma team use
@@stevenbowers4164 were starting to get them and auto pulses in our area but only a handful of stations have them. Usually depends on the cities.
@@stevenbowers4164 Sadly we do not have a helimed system like in Europe. Helicopter response here does not bring a higher level of care, just a faster transit to a hospital, which is typically only used in trauma/critical cases in rural areas that may be several hours by road to the nearest major medical center. The guys in the back of the helicopter are typically just paramedics with maybe advanced life support personnel.
At that moment, the baby had Dozens of Fathers & Mothers!!! Every EMT/Paramedic, Deputy, and Hospital ER staff now had a baby who wasn't breathing!! (Because that how they were thinking!)
Do we know if the baby made it?
I hope they saved the baby life
Well set up for this emergency
Tell that to the retired “fire chiefs” on here that keep saying this set up was horrible 🤣
Anyone else noticed the gas prices at the Speedway station?! 6 dollars a gallon?! Holy F!!!
Honestly seeing this brings me back to 2007 when my baby sister past away I remember seconds after the call the whole city lit up I remember two police officers running in the front door snatching her from my mother and turning around running while doing cpr going down a hill where all the lights came around the corner as a kid I always said how did they get here before anyone else just seeing this video tells me the world will stop for a baby at least here in America 🥹🫶🏿
So sorry for your loss
@@northerncountymedia3049 thank you 💯
HOW IS THE BABY 👶
Fair play. The Americans know how to do resources. In the UK you wouldn't even get a police escort. It's just not the done thing. In several years on the ambulances I only ever had one police escort.
I mean absolutely no disrespect at all, but I'm not an EMT or anything, so I'm wondering: why? Is it just cause they feel they need to see the case through, or something like that?
I like how there’s a fire truck stuck in that traffic at the end
musta been a important baby
I hope the baby made it Having that kind of a response
Awesome catch