congratulations to the emergency services people whose vehicles appear to be no more than 30 - 50 metres from the aircraft when it finally comes to a stop
Yes, so often they seem to hide at the threshold and then struggle to keep up with the landing aircraft, only arriving 'on scene' some considerable time after the aircraft has stopped.
I realise that a 'disabled' aircraft might not make the usual runway length, but, in general they seem to 'go further' than normal, leaving the crash tenders to lag well behind.
Could at least some be positioned a safe distance off to the side so that they could respond accordingly instead of having to chase from the threshold after the casualty has passed-by them?
There might be an SOP (I'm sure that there is) but maybe the pack could be split with some starting from the end where the incident is expected to end (obviously not within a possible diversion area if the casualty veers off the centre line).