Medical Emergency Dock Response

Last week the CVRD Parks and Recreation Department installed steel bollards on the Community Dock to block vehicular traffic on the trestle due to their safety concerns.  The TIVFD Rescue vehicle must now block both lanes of Foster Point Road at the trestle-head in order to keep the vehicle flat when off-loading a patient.

Please understand that for the safety of our responders, our patients and our community drivers we will be stopping traffic in both lanes until offloading is completed.  This may take some time, as the responding paramedics will reassess the patient in the back of the Rescue and not on the trestle before loading into the water taxi.  

Our local TIPC Directors (Patrick Mooney and Andy Lamb) are representing our many concerns to the CVRD and we are hoping this is a temporary issue. In the meantime the TIVFD asks for your patience and understanding if you are unfortunately delayed by our new medical response procedure.   

Fire Chief J. Caldbeck