Why would a firebrigrade carry a person in this instance

[Youwerewrong]

The person obviously wasn’t fully unconscious as they remember the fire officer a bit. No pyscially injuries and no disabilities

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 🙄

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

In what instance?? What are you talking about?

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

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

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.

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

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

To remove them from danger.

Well thats five minutes out my life I won’t get back and am still none the wiser as to what the hell the question is about…….

I can understand a qualified paramedic also being a volunteer firefighter but to be a qualified paramedic it’s a three year degree. Which seems extreme for a firefighter to do. Some advanced first aid, etc I could understand but a whole three year degree seems wild.

I think the OP has cut and run.

Presumably because they, qualified professionals, deemed it necessary??

Weird post.