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We need a 4th emergency service for people in crisis to just evac them from bad situations, almost like the witness protection. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by FizzlePopBerryTwist@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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I don't want to get too political in shower thoughts, but this would solve a lot of the hot button issues if more people just had safer and supportive environments to escape to and volunteers / paid professionals to help them on the other end.

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[โ€“] FizzlePopBerryTwist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In East Grand Rapids, there is a single service for emergency responders who are trained as police / fire fighters, and paramedics so only one vehicle shows up. Consolidating them instead of defunding them actually improved things.