UPDATED @ 12:10 AM 9:56 PM Ashford Rescue Responds To A Burn Patient

Rickey Stokes

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Date: Mar 22 2020 10:11 PM

ASHFORD:   9:56 PM    Houston County Sheriff 911 dispatched Ashford Police and Ashford Rescue to the 2100 block of Battles Road in Ashford to a burn patient.

The patient was described from the 911 Center to responding emergency units  as a 20 year old male with burns to the hand, leg, neck and minor burn to the face.

Protocol in burn patients is for Survival Flight to be auto-launched on certain calls. Outside Houston County that is a grand idea but oten times in Houston County ground transport can be faster.

Today was one of those days to do either. Ashford EMS was 1.7 miles. four minutes from the scene. The 7.4 miles, 11 minutes to the hospital. While Houston County Sheriff 911 was asking about the following of the Survival Flight protocol Ashford Rescue was on the scene. The patient was at the roadway, in the ambulance and in less than 2 minutes was rolling to Southeast Health.

The reason for the normal practice of auto launch Survival Flight is due to the type of injury of the patient. Normally in burn cases, if possible, EMS prefers to fly them directly from the scene to the burn units. Dothan and Houston County being so close on ground transport that practice is not always followed because the ground distance is faster.

The patient is reported to have some thd irdegree burns. Unless something changes he is quite possibly going to the remain in a Dothan hospital.

UPDATED @ 12:10 AM    

The burn patient transported from Battles Road to Southeast Health has now been moved.

Earlier this evening the patient was transported by ground ambulance to a burn unit in Mobile.

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