International Journal of Emergency Services: Volume 9 Issue 1

Service and value co-production and co-creation in emergency services and emergency management

Lucia Velotti, Peter Murphy

For a short time, we were the best version of ourselves: Hurricane Harvey and the ideal of community

Natalie D. Baker, Magdalena Deham

The authors use a co-auto-ethnographic study of Hurricane Harvey where both authors were citizen responders and disaster researchers. In practice, large-scale disaster helps…

Volunteer motivations in the Finnish fire service

Sanna Malinen, Puck Algera, Teija Mankkinen

This paper presents a large sample study of fire service volunteer motivations in Finland. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to explore the differences between initial…

The functioning of rescue workers in life tasks: development of a test

Heilwine Bakker, Marc van Veldhoven, Tony Gaillard, Remy Hertogs, Margot Feenstra

Since policemen have a highly demanding job, they have a high risk of developing mental health problems, which may have a negative influence on their private life. The purpose of…

Time, island and ambulance type characteristics of patient transfers from two Turkish islands: Gökçeada and Bozcaada

Cuneyt Caliskan, K. Hakan Altintas

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the time, place and ambulance types specified on the ambulance patient registry forms for cases transferred through 112 EMS in the…

Antecedents of collaboration and drivers of relational risk in public safety networks

Katarzyna Sienkiewicz-Małyjurek

The purpose of this paper is to identify the inter-related impact of the antecedents of collaboration on the emergence of relational risk and the impact of relational risk on the…

The strategic and operational landscape of emergency services in the UK

Peter Murphy, Paresh Wankhade, Katarzyna Lakoma

The organisational and service delivery landscape of the emergency services in the UK has been rapidly changing and is facing further change in the foreseeable future. The purpose…