Hello everyone!
I’m spending the day with a real ambulance today.
We’re going to be having a look inside, then going out on the road with the Ambulance
crew, and visiting a special garage JUST for ambulances.
Ambulances are one of the most important vehicles on the road.
They are used to pick up people who are poorly or who have hurt themselves and get them to
hospital as quickly as possible.
An ambulance really is like a mini hospital on wheels.
Everything in the back is here to treat people on the way to hospital.
Let’s meet the Ambulance crew.
This is Terry, the emergency medical technician and he’s just checking the ambulance to
make sure everything is working properly before call out.
And this is Paul – the Paramedic.
Paul decides how to help the poorly person on the way to the hospital, and can give them
special medicine.
Paul lowers this special ramp by pressing a button.
The ramp makes it easier to get patients on board the ambulance.
If a patient needs to lie down, Paul and Terry will use this stretcher.
They can then wheel the patient up the ramp and into the back of the ambulance.
These special seats can fold out so that a member of the patient’s family can stay
with them on the way to hospital.
Paul, the paramedic can use all of this medicine and these amazing tools to make people feel
better!
There is a special hatch so that Paul and Terry can talk to each other.
Over the radio, the crew have received a real call out.
It’s time to go to work.
When a call comes in, it’s time for Paul and Terry to turn the lights on and drive
quickly to their patient.
That means they’re even allowed to go through red lights!
Paul and Terry’s aim is always to get the patient to hospital as quickly and safely
as possible.
The crew and their vehicles work really, really hard with these ambulances doing hundreds
of miles per day.
This also means that sometimes things can break.
but luckily a garage has been built specially for fixing ambulances.
Have you ever seen so many ambulances in one place?
The expert mechanics in this amazing workshop can fix around 25 ambulances per day!
Hey what was that…
Blue mechanical!
How on earth did you get in here?
You better stay out of trouble!
It looks like there’s something wrong with one of this Ambulance’s flashing lights.
So it’s up to Tim the mechanic to fix the problem.
There – that’s better!
Good as new.
We can’t have an ambulance without flashing lights can we!
After travelling hundreds of miles, Ambulances also get very dirty so this is where they
are given a good wash.
Blue Mechanical – you better watch you don’t get wet!
Uh oh, too late!
Thanks very much Paul, Terry and the whole team at the North West Ambulance service for
teaching us about the important service that you provide.
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Byeeeee!