MCI Drill pictures posted

The pictures that Fred Stipe took during the second day of the MCI drill have been posted. Go to the 53Maxwell space and click through SORS, and EMS or go directly to here.

MCI Drill for the EMT classes

The following article appeared in the DTH about the MCI drills that several members of SORS (Clint Osborn, Jordan Coates, Chris Dye, Cameron Lambert, and many others) put on for the DTCC EMT-B and EMT-I classes.

County gauges response efforts

By: Gray Caldwell, Assistant City Editor

Issue date: 11/15/06 Section: City

 

Media Credit: DTH/Keith Hodson Chapel Hill Fire Department and Orange County Emergency Management officials assess how they reacted to a staged large-scale disaster Tuesday.

Imagine you’re standing on a packed bus riding home from school one day. The driver is about to make a stop, when all of a sudden a school bus runs through the intersection and rams into the side of your bus. Both buses slam into the side of a building.

Everyone at the scene is screaming, several people were thrown from the buses, and there are a dozen life-threatening injuries. How should first responders react?

That was the dilemma EMT students from across Orange County trained for Tuesday night.

1262 Lettered!!

We picked up 1262 from Mincey’s today and boy does it look good. Unfortunately it’s stay at the station this time was only brief enough for a few pictures. It’ll be back home next week.

Here’s one to wet your appetite:

More pictures are online here.

Madison Co (NC) Paramedic shot

The following is an email that was forwarded with details about the paramedic that was shot Sunday night (7/30/2006) in Madison County, NC. As of yesterday (8/1) the victim was listed in serious condition at Mission Hospital.

Additional info is available in the Citizen-Times.

1261 VHF radio

http://sors1201.wordpress.com/2006/08/01/1261-vhf-radio/

1262 lettering – next rev

This revision to the lettering proposal takes into account recent input. Here’s the file: elevations_v11_outlined.pdf

Just so you know how Clint feels about the truck…

Clint and I spent some time earlier today mocking up the checker board based on design rev v10 (previous design). If you’d like to see it, swing by the station.

1262 will be headed to the radio shop tomorrow (Thursday) evening for radio installation so get there quick!

Here’s a very quick and dirty overlay of the v11 design on the driver’s side of the door

Post your comments.

Rescuing emergency services

EMS Division member Daniel Patterson, Ph.D.,(also a post-doctoral research fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Sheps Center for Health Services Research) has a column published in the Jul 22, 2006 News & Observer.

Lettering proposal for 1262

Here’s the proposed lettering for 1262 in PDF format: elevations_v10_outlined.pdf

Here are a couple of images of current vehicles within the fleet that we are trying to stay somewhat similar too.

Gator Trailer 1281

Many thanks to Clint for putting in tons of hours on this and to Reitz, Jordan, and Cancro for staying up way late last night to get to this point.

Comments?

1262 is Here!

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