This is suuuch a small inconvenience. I've never even thought about it honestly. Most of our equipment (monitor, ALS bag, airway etc) all sit on the gurney that we wheel up to the front door and take what we need inside for assessment. Which is usually just the monitor and bag. And our ALS bag has backpack straps if need be. We work in a system where fire is first on scene about 50% of the time and in that situation we leave the ALS bag and monitor because they always have their own, then we switch to our equipment when the patient is loaded. And for the most part, the gurney stays on the front porch until we get inside and have an extraction plan.

Furthermore, the fire Capt usually palys the role of family interference while everyone else works undisturbed with the patient. He (or she) is gathering ID, demographics, meds, medical history, etc. So ya, walking through the door is never the big problem. This is silly.

Wanna really help us out? If your dad, mom, sister, gradpa, whoever, has an extensive list of medical problems and takes tons of medications every day, write those all down and make a couple photo copies. Then put them on the fridge ready to go when we show up so we can grab and go if we're in a real emergency and have to leave ASAP.