Joint Medical Emergency Notifications For NY Fire Department and Roosevelt Island Public Safety Department Requested By RI Elected Officials - No More 20 Minute Emergency Response Time
Image Of FDNY Ambulance on Roosevelt Island
A Roosevelt Island resident reported on this incident in a post last January:
... A friend of mine, who lives at the Octagon, has a one year old daughter who had a seizure ... around midnight (she is ok now but she was blue, not breathing, unconscious). It took an ambulance 20 minutes to get there. Before that the firemen came but I guess they are not sufficiently trained to deal with such things and were basically useless. It turns out the ambulance that eventually transported them to NY Presbyterian came all the way from Long Island (not Long Island City!) and it took the driver some time to figure out how to get to NY Presbyterian hospital...The Roosevelt Island Public Safety Department was not notified of this emergency at the Octagon. In order to prevent a similar situation from occurring during a future Roosevelt island emergency, Assembly Member Micah Kellner together with other Roosevelt Island elected officials Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, State Senator Jose Serrano, City Council Member Jessica Lappin and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer sent the following letter to NY Fire Department Commissioner Salvatore Cassano the following letter:
We are writing to request that the Emergency Medical Service Division of New York City’s Fire Department establish a joint notification system with Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation’s Public Safety Department (Public Safety).Below is the full text of the letter.
Roosevelt Island is a unique community located between Manhattan and Queens. The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC) was created in 1984 to manage infrastructure, services and development on the Island. Among its many functions, RIOC provides an on-site, neighborhood patrol force, known as Public Safety, which is responsible for the safety of Island residents. Public Safety is comprised of 38 officers, each of whom has been granted New York State Peace Officer Status, in accordance with Section 2 of New York State’s Criminal Procedure Law, as well as New York City Special Patrolman Status in accordance with Title 14 Chapter 1 Section 106 of the New York City Administrative Code. Each officer is certified in CPR, Automated External Deliberator (AED) use, and First Aid with the American Heart Association. Public Safety also has a single officer who is a certified Emergency Medical Technician.
Although Roosevelt Island is part of the Borough of Manhattan, its only ground access point is the Roosevelt Island Bridge that connects the Island with Astoria, Queens. This creates unique challenges, particularly with respect to Emergency Services. Response times to Roosevelt Island have been a persistent concern for Island residents.
Since Public Safety is located on the Island and is thoroughly familiar with each building and location, we believe it would be beneficial for them to be notified when there is a medical incident on the Island. Currently, when Public Safety is called directly about a medical emergency on the island they inform 911. However the reverse does not apply; Public Safety is not informed when there is a call to 911 for medical assistance. Notifying Public Safety would allow them to quickly respond to the scene, evaluate the situation, and possibly perform life saving CPR before an ambulance arrives on the scene. To this end, we propose that the FDNY evaluate the following options:
We believe whatever system the FDNY chooses to implement to notify Public Safety of emergency medical calls will ultimately better serve the residents of Roosevelt Island. Public Safety is ready and willing to help, and we hope that the FDNY will take advantage of their resources and expertise....
- Public Safety could be included in the Mutual Aid Response System (MARS).
- All addresses on Roosevelt Island could be given Premise History Indicators that include a note about the availability of Public Safety for assistance
- The dispatch system could be programmed in order to prompt communication specialists to notify Public Safety directly.
RI Ambluances Dual Response Letter
8 comments :
Bravo! Public Safety needed a mutual communication system like this! They saved a handful of people by doing CPR on them.
It is already in place. I know police dispatchers have on their screens to call public safety for any emergency jobs on most roosevelt island addresses, but it is rarely done. I am not sure if ems dispatchers have the same message. If you have an emergency, call 911 first, then call public safety.
I would like to address all of the island's safe well being as well in this forum at this moment.
I hope that with the number of people living here on RI increasing per the new Census numbers and the fact that new stores will be opening as well and shops, that the number of PSD increases as well, also a NYPD office should be located here in the near future. Thousands of people will be flocking here to the new Parks and with Summer here, it is already starting with the Trams being packed with people on the weekends!
I would like to see a NYPD office here in the future as well...we have to show NYC and all the world that we are the safest place to visit in NY and also send a message to those that come here to take advantage of our island and bring their bad and destructive influences. When the Sun falls, down at Southpoint and up at the Lighthouse, there are shady people doing shady things, and it has to stop. It is public knowledge there is no Police presence here...PSD to a great job, but they cannot protect us on their own.
Thank you~
Why do we need NYPD if we already have law enforcement officers that are stationed and work here, which is PUBLIC SAFETY. Is it that they are unarmed and perhaps that raises concern that they cannot adequately protect us? or is it misinformation that the theory is that because they are unarmed law enforcers, they are more labeled as security guards?
you people are fools . p.s.d. are freinds with the real cons . p.s.d. knows not to mess with the big boys and thats a fact .there are some real bad people living on this island and this one kid who is really harmless;had to move off the island so his mom and dad would not lose their apartment . mean while the real cons still are living here . what a joke
So what do you suggest they do? They are well, outgunned.
This is nausiating. Always plenty of negativity towards problems without any realistic solutions.
p.s.d. only goes after people they know are harmless this is a fact.
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