most Hollywood types are so out of touch with reality they could not tell you the difference.
Coroners vehicles
- Thread starter Pat Post
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Sad. I know what you mean after all you wouldn't want to actually acknowledge the fact that your loved one died! I get a kick out of hospice in how they close all the doors and get people out of the hallways when doing a removal. For some reason they think people in hospice shouldn't realize THEY ARE THERE TO DIE! and how many people that went into hospice still do not have final disposition (notice how I said disposition since no one likes the verbiage FUNERAL) set up when they do die. The excuse, "We didn't want to upset them and talk about it".
Geezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...:thumbsdown:
Back on the subject...
Highly unlikely; however, there's always the slightest possibility that an agency of this type had an ambulance or hearse that was purchased used. Anything is possible, I guess...
The vast majority of coroner's or ME's offices contract out their transportation. The ones that don't usually use (or used) wagons, carryalls, minivans, or vans.
Regarding the other posts, Hollywood has a skewed vision of coroner (as well as funeral and ambulance service) reality.
Highly unlikely; however, there's always the slightest possibility that an agency of this type had an ambulance or hearse that was purchased used. Anything is possible, I guess...
The vast majority of coroner's or ME's offices contract out their transportation. The ones that don't usually use (or used) wagons, carryalls, minivans, or vans.
Regarding the other posts, Hollywood has a skewed vision of coroner (as well as funeral and ambulance service) reality.
Russell Dalziel
President MotorCity Chapter
71 Lifeliner
Our 71 Lifeliner was used by the Coroner.s office after it's duty with the Western Springs F.D. I have the Letter that Approves of the Vehicle having Lights etc
Russ
Our 71 Lifeliner was used by the Coroner.s office after it's duty with the Western Springs F.D. I have the Letter that Approves of the Vehicle having Lights etc
Russ
You have lights on that thing and do they all work? Are you sure it can handle the electrical load Russ.
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Russell Dalziel
President MotorCity Chapter
Cute Richard. when are you bringing your Lifeliner up so I can Remount your speakers under your seat LOL
Russ
Mike McDonald
PCS Member
Seems like kind of a waste of a very large expensive "ambulance shell" obviously ordered and bought that way for a Coroner's Wagon. Here in San Diego County the M-E's Office I believe has always hired a private service with small vans for removals
Wayne Krakowski
PCS Member
Russ is bound and bent someone is gonna get speakers under their seat,and he can do it.as for removal cars several services our way had station wagons retrofitted for removals,ours was,and most local small funeral homes used us exclusively,and by default so did the coroners office,also Len Langlois in Chatham retroed a few wagons for people,and will tell you most of his back problems can be traced to doing 1 man removals,,,,FYI
Bingo! I knew they were out there.
don't get big city confused with real life. out side the metropolitan area you did what you had to. as a ambulance service when we were on sean we would haul for the locale funeral home. they would rather give us our load fee then gather up and come out. the sheriff was usually elected as coroner also and the deputies were deputy coroners. they had no coroners wagon. the locale funeral home would transport or if we were on sean we would. the key to the funeral home back door was on the ring with the ignition key.
if family was present we would just load them as any other pt. if not depending on condition weather we used a bag or not. you have to remember being a small town you knew them and one of you on the crew was close friends or worked with them. been more then once some one stayed behind to help out while the rest transported. for us it wasn't a job it was a service. one you volunteered to do not got paid to just show up.
if family was present we would just load them as any other pt. if not depending on condition weather we used a bag or not. you have to remember being a small town you knew them and one of you on the crew was close friends or worked with them. been more then once some one stayed behind to help out while the rest transported. for us it wasn't a job it was a service. one you volunteered to do not got paid to just show up.
Terry Lange
PCS Member
I believe Carl Woerner owned this unusual Criterion for a period of time, after it was removed from service. My understanding is that it was used by the hospital for inter-facility patient transfers.
One of the counties here in MD used a retired Suburban ambulance for the medical examiner's unit in the late '70's. And if I can find the pictures, I'll post them.
Dan Skivlocke's funeral home has a van ambulance. He told me they don't run ambulance service anymore, they use it for removals. Apparently, it's considered more acceptable for an ambulance to be parked in front of someone's house than a hearse.
Dan Skivlocke's funeral home has a van ambulance. He told me they don't run ambulance service anymore, they use it for removals. Apparently, it's considered more acceptable for an ambulance to be parked in front of someone's house than a hearse.
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How odd.
My pharmacist said that he'd just filled a prescription for my ex-wife. We divorced in 1981.
Just sayin'.
i just spit out my coffee!