Staff from the six Fire and Rescue services across the East Midlands will be joining East Midlands Ambulance (EMAS) to commence training to support the response to COVID-19.
Members of the fire service will be working alongside EMAS Urgent Care teams, and could carry out support tasks such as driving Urgent Care vehicles and the safe moving and handling of patients.
The six fire services in the East Midlands region are: Humberside, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire.
Credit: East Midlands Ambulance Service
Around a dozen of fire service colleagues have been requested from each fire service, as well as control room staff and members of logistics teams .
All those joining will have volunteered to support EMAS.
Fire Service Personnel are already supporting the Yorkshire Ambulance Service and London Ambulance Service.
