Why would a firebrigrade carry a person in this instance

You've still not said in what 'instance' this occurred. Until you do, this is pointless.

Then stop drip feeding. If you want proper answers given proper information. You appear to want to catch someone out. On the limited information here I’d say fire service personal can also be trained paramedics, so it may be something to do with that. If it was medically related, then you need to explain the circumstances in which the fire service were involved.

You wouldn’t put someone down who had just woken from a faint- what if they went again?

When my son had a fall and was badly winded skiing he said he felt perfectly fine to get up and walk/ski once he had recovered from being winded. The ski patrol said they could not allow him to that they had to stretcher him down the mountain so that he could be checked over properly. Sometimes it’s policy that they have to carry them.

How on earth can anyone answer your question without any explanation of what actually happened? 🙄

what is this nonsense as a dragon would say..I'm out

In what instance?? What are you talking about?

Award for the most pointless thread of the day goes to the OP 🙄

When I had an accident that was in a remote area, I was rescued by the fire service (no mountain rescue at that time where I was). They stretchered me down the mountain side.

Apparently I was chatting away to them about all sorts of stuff but I have NO memory of the entire event.

Just because someone is awake doesn't mean they are fully with it!

Poor fireman having his motives questioned like this after helping someone 🙄

Maybe it's a training exercise: once a year they all get together at a venue selected for its abundance of staircases and carry the heaviest person they can find from the top floor to the bottom. Or it could be a ceremonial thing like Trooping the Colour, purely to showcase their skills.

I've recently been awake in hospital and looked at people, after a general anaesthetic. I certainly wouldn't have been able to walk anywhere. The,same applies on the occasions I have fainted. @Youwerewrong , you're making yourself look daft.

I would imagine the OP is feeling the same way with a rather large hangover to boot.

You want a person that has just fainted/been unconscious to stand up and walk? Actually you think someone trained in first aid should 'wake up' this person and then make them walk?
I mean clearly you ve never done even a basic first aid course but even just with simple logic or common sense you'd see that theres a big risk of injury even with a simple faint eg head injury, falling down steps, falling on something that causes punctures wounds or cuts, broken bones. And having lost consciousness once there's the strong possibility of it happening again until you ve fully recovered from what ever caused it, the worst thing to do after a faint is to stand straight up again. The officers have to err on side of caution to keep her safe, aside from anything else it makes their job more difficult if she falls and hits her head

Because she was unconscious when they found her having a suspected medical emergency, and if they’d made her walk and she fell because she wasn’t fully conscious, it would be a liability for the fire brigade.

So you're on Mumsnet, trying to catch your "friend" out? Lovely.

Why on earth don't you give the circumstances then, nooone here is a mind reader, your OP is short of information

So, what the heck is your problem? Are you trying to call her a liar? Are you jealous? Are you sorry that your overweight friend didn't break the fireman's back? I mean, all I am seeing here is you being very nasty, and would love to know why you feel the need to be that way?

Seven pages of posts and I still have no clue what actually happened

I was just going to post this is only true in more rural areas of the UK. As a general rule firefighters are not trained paramedics in the UK but do have very extensive first aid and emergency response training.

Yes, absolutely in the UK.

I live in a remote part of Scotland and our firefighters are trained as paramedics too.

I've got a dual-trained friend who is a volunteer firefighter in Dorset, too.

Is that in the uk? Never heard of it.

I recall a poster earlier in the year, who was very focused on disproving that a friend had had a life threatening event.

The poster had had, they felt, a much more terrible medical event themselves and was trying to prove the friend wasn't as Ill as they had claimed to be.

Anyway, it was all very odd, never really made sense and read an awful lot like this.

This is a cracker of a thread to wake up to

Wonder if the op has sobered up this morning

Not strictly true. Where I live every firefighter is also a qualified paramedic so they are perfectly capable of making medical decisions, beginning treatment and deciding on whether someone can be moved themselves. If you call 999 they will dispatch whichever is closest of the fire or ambulance services to make sure you get the fastest possible treatment.