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"Proper" response to the Scene / Station

A few months ago, I was responding to the station to man our station per protocol for an EMS run. Our county has no set protocol for responding in P.O. V.'s. I was responding with lights & sirens per dept. protocol. A Co. Sherriff's Deputy was at the intersection when I was pulling into the station. He turned around (non-emergency) to follow me into the station parking lot. In his process, he almost hit a FF & EMT both responding non-emergency. The Deputy is also an EMT for another dept. in the county. He basicly chewed me out in front of the other 2 people there & tried to enforce his dept's policy on me. We run 2 squads out of our station & I was responding to man the 2nd squad. The deputy said that since the squad was on scene, the "Emergency" was over & I should have responded non-emergency. Our protocol is to respond lights & siren "with due regard to the safety of the public" to the scene or station. Is it right for him to do what he did, or was I in the right? I just want to hear others opinions on this.

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Permalink Reply by John on August 28, 2008 at 7:41am: Per your Depts protocol you were in the right, and the deputy being an EMT elsewhere should know that, how would that deputy feel if he was responding and got chewed out by PD responding to a call?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jay Ronau on September 7, 2008 at 4:42pm: I later found out that the deputy was told by his sergeant to disregard the call. I think he was a little miffed off & was looking to take his frustration out on someone from the responding dept. I just happened to be the one he took it out on. My chief tried contacting the deputy 3 times about this incident, but with no avail. Thanks for your support.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Theresa on September 9, 2008 at 11:10pm: I agree with you as long as you where going by your protocal and running lights and sirens with due regard then you where in the right. On our dept. You run lights and sirens with due regard inless other ways paged out or radio out. There has been time that are squed lift with one person and the second EMT that came in just went straight to the scene. So I am totally for you.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Douglas Crowell, Jr. on July 10, 2009 at 7:42pm: I don't think Ohio law specifies what constitutes an emergency. As long as you drive with due reguard, and are dispatched, you are within the law. I woukd have to side with you on this one.; ▶ Reply to This

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