Are you CPR trained? Consider it.

The attached article appeared in the March 4th, 2007 edition of the Chapel Hill Herald.

cpr-editorial-ch-herald-3-4-07.pdf

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.

Orange County Commissioners Recognition

http://firenews.net/

FEATURED SHOT
MON OCT 23
SUBMITTED BY DAVID HUNT, NEW HOPE FIRE DEPARTMENT
ORANGE COUNTY – Each Orange County volunteer fire and rescue department received recognition by the Orange County Commissioners at a board meeting last week.

Accepting the plaque for the respective departments (left to right): Chief Tommy Holmes – Orange Grove, Chief David O’Dell – Eno, Deputy Chief Brian Parker – New Hope, Chief Matthew Mauzy – South Orange Rescue, Chief Andy Gates – Caldwell, Chief Jeff Cabe – Orange Rural, Chief Frank Berry – Cedar Grove, Deputy Chief Nathan Huey – Orange County Rescue, Chief Mark Riggsbee – North Chatham.

Trainees hang around to save the day

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/501950.html

Trainees hang around to save the day
Inventive scenario sets stage for class

Suspended from the side of the Mary Ellen Jones Building at UNC-Chapel Hill, Danny Willner, left, takes a turn playing the recalcitrant ‘victim’ for the drill, and Josh Neal ‘rescues’ him. Both belong to the South Orange Rescue Squad. Staff Photos by John Rottet

Jessica Rocha, Staff Writer

CHAPEL HILL – Say you’re a window washer who gets out on the side of an 11-story building only to find there are no windows to wash. And it’s raining. And cold. And a Sunday.While dangling from the side of the building, you might just think you’ve had enough — that the boss doesn’t pay enough for you to hang from buildings. You might just decide you weren’t budging from the side of that building.

That’s the scenario North Chatham Fire and Rescue Capt. Eddie Freeman came up with before rappelling off a building at UNC-Chapel Hill in a mock-rescue operation.

The practice rescue was part of a three-day high-angle rope training class, refreshing and teaching some of the technical rescue team of the South Orange Rescue Squad as well as two people from other departments. They practiced how to create a secure rope-and-pulley system from the top of a building. Such a system comes in handy to rescue people such as window washers or construction workers who might find themselves stuck in midair.

Newspaper articles about recent SRTA class

Thanks to Board of Director Fred Stipe for spearheading the press release we had media turnout on Sunday from three papers.
The following two links are to stories in the Chapel Hill Herald and the Chapel Hill News.
http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/10-760918.html

(Note: The original story above mistakenly credits us for the Kenan Stadium recovery. The actual recovery was performed by NCVFD Capt Skip Storey and CHFD Engineer Charlie Powell.)

http://www.chapelhillnews.com/front/story/2992339p-9419211c.html

Pictures from the weekend’s class 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.