February 18th, 2008 by R.J.

Read an interesting article today from Florida about paramedics using decommissioned CHP motorcycles to respond to injury calls.

Ken DeSantis, 42, of Wellington Flordia is firefighter/paramedic veteran of 22 years and is part of a 2-man motorcycle team stationed in Fort Lauderdale. His team uses donated CHP motorcycles to respond to accidents in the heavily trafficked seaport, Port Everglades.

The program was modeled after a similar one in Miami-Dade county. “We cut response times to life-threatening calls by more than 58 percent,” said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Capt. Roman Bas, who started his agency’s team in 2002.

Both members of the Ford Lauderdale team had to complete the same 80-hour motorcyclist course required of police.

On average, the motorcyclist paramedics have a three minute response time. Awesome, right? Now lets go ahead and get this implemented all over the country.