A fire alarm went off, the operator asked if we needed an ambulance and we said no but they showed up anyways asking if we needed medical assistance. What’s the point of asking?
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In your particular case, the ambulance wasn’t for you even if the crew asked if you were okay, they likely did that to be courteous/ make sure dispatch didn’t give bad info.
A LOT of fire departments have ambulances dispatched along with them in their way to fire calls for what’s called “medical standby” or “rehab”. Firefighting is *very* physically intense, so if your fire alarm turned into a true house fire, someone has to be there to check the medical status of the firefighters as well as treat them if they get hurt.
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