Hastings Emergency Services Show on July 26 2025

The show took place between 10-5pm on The Stade Open Space area in Hastings Old Town.

Transcript

00:00So the emergency service show at Hastings is an opportunity for all of the emergency

00:05services to engage with the public, build awareness of what we do, how we do it,

00:11the kit and equipment that's available, the people that are involved in the

00:16everyday responses and also the opportunity for some of the the lesser

00:21known responders that are available in our community. I've been lucky enough to

00:29be the organiser this year bringing all the emergency services together. We've

00:34got the obvious of the police, fire, ambulance, the Coast Guard, the RNLI but

00:42we've also got Dockbike, the National Independent Lifeboat Association, we've

00:49got our local lifeboat volunteers as well as the 4x4 response server coming down as

00:58well. So yeah a big variety of organisations that people may or may not

01:03have any awareness of. Like I say most people will know the 999 emergencies

01:07that the the big ones with the Coast Guard, the ambulance, the fire, the police,

01:12the RNLI. They may not know about St John's and the other and there a lot of

01:19them are voluntary organisations so they rely heavily on donations from members of

01:22the public to raise an awareness of what they do and how they're funded. Obviously

01:27the the big challenge for the voluntary organisations is donations aren't as as

01:34high as they have been in previous years so any events like this are vitally

01:38important. From a personal point of view we have our community first responders who

01:44are volunteers, they give up their own time and they're a charity in their own

01:48right and they respond within their own local community to life-threatening

01:53emergencies to get that defib and start that chain of survival at the earliest

01:57possible time and without donations they wouldn't be able to continue so yeah for

02:02all the voluntary organisations it's really important to get that word out

02:06there to the public so that they can gain those donations. The community first

02:10responders has been an initiative in CCAM since about 2004-2006. We have guys like David,

02:18girls who go out and respond in the communities volunteers who do it in their

02:24own time, who are basically given responder training, kit, AED and a NMA device, phone

02:35device, where they book on in their own time and respond to category one life

02:40threatening calls up to category three calls. They do that to support their

02:44community and I can't think much highly of them, they are brilliant people.

02:51I've been a member now for two years and it's been very rewarding and it's great to

02:56mix with the local community and see the impact that we can actually have. We don't

03:01always manage to get to the jobs before the ambulance crews but what we can do is

03:07actually make the patients comfortable at the very least or give vital care and treatment.

03:37to help with the community.

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