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Originally Posted by Lakesrider
I read this as kind of a nasty post. It would be interesting to see if the rest of the crew was out on other calls being it is a holiday weekend with about a gazillion other non-residents and Summer folk up here. If it was such a debacle why didn't someone get in a boat and take her to shore for a more rapid transfer? When you live on an island you should be a whole lot more prepared for emergencies than mainland people need to be. Maybe she wasn't the only other emergency happening at that time. You might want to give Moultonborough Fire Department some respect and the benefit of the doubt until someone goes to a meeting and asks what happened as I am sure someone will. I hope. Maybe?
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Not meant as a nasty post...just a heads up to Moultonboro island residents about some obvious limitations in the service they may expect. It was 11pm at night. The patient was in extreme pain. It was felt it would be more expedient to have her professionally transported. The people had NO idea it woul take over an hour for help to arrive, and that the assistance would be so unprepared.
It is true, as islanders we need to be somewhat more prepared...but taxes are supposed to provide us with some basic services. This isn't in disrespect to the Moultonboro Fire Department...but somewhere the ball was dropped. As a Tuftonboro resident I see our department almost every other day out training on their boat. Is this an access problem, or a training issue?