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10/04/2009
EBBETTS PASS FIRE DISTRICT
News & Information of
Interest
Press Release
September 1, 2009 marked the ten year anniversary of the Ebbetts Pass Fire District providing Paramedic Level – Emergency Medical Care.
Residents of the Fire District passed the first special tax authorizing the
district to hire additional personnel and begin to provide Advanced Life Support
Care in 1999.
The Fire District assigned one
Firefighter/Paramedic per shift who were assigned to Squad 431 – Shown above are
Squad 431, Medic 434 and the Fire Districts Command Suburban. Medic 434 is the
original Transport Unit owned by the fire district and is a reserve/utility
vehicle today. Squad 431, which was the original paramedic response unit, is
currently the Battalion Chiefs response unit.
Shown above are the five fully stocked Paramedic Rescue Transport Units currently in service with the Ebbetts Pass Fire District – Two of these units are staffed 24/7 by the district with Firefighter/Paramedic personnel. The remaining three units are staffed by call-back personnel as needed. During peak periods it is not uncommon for the district to have three or four of these units committed to patient care or other emergency activities.
In addition to the advanced life support medical equipment carried on these
units – these units also provide structure fire turnouts and Self Contained
Breathing Apparatus for the firefighting personnel who staff them,
as well as, water rescue
equipment, rope rescue equipment and wildland firefighting gear for the
firefighters.
Ebbetts
Pass Fire District’s Medic Units are more than just ambulances . . .
They are a Fire Service Paramedic Rescue Units
Because we provide to our citizens:
advanced life support patient care
emergency medical transportation
structural fire suppression
wildland fire suppression
vehicle extrication
technical rescue
water rescue
over-the-bank rescue
hazardous materials first response
fire and injury prevention education
Three of the Ebbetts Pass Fire Districts six engine companies are also equipped with Paramedic Level – Advanced Life Support Equipment – These Paramedic Engine Companies carry all the same equipment as the paramedic rescues with the exception of the gurney. When in service these engines are staffed with a minimum of one paramedic amongst the crew.
Medic Engine 436 has traveled throughout the State of California
this summer fire season providing
mutual aid on several fires . Medic
Engine 437 is the Career Staffed Paramedic Engine at the Canyon View Drive
Station #3 in Hathaway Pines. Medic Engine 435 is the Career Staffed Paramedic
Engine at the Blagen Road Station #1 in Arnold.
The Ebbetts Pass Fire District Paramedic Program provides Paramedic Level First
Response service to the entire 225 square mile Ebbetts Pass Fire District. The
district boundaries are from Utica Grade to the Alpine county Line on Highway
four, from the Mokelumne River to the Stanislaus River in the high country above
Arnold, from the Stanislaus River to Murphys Sheep Ranch Road along Avery Sheep
Ranch Road in the county below Arnold.
Paramedic transport service from the Ebbetts Pass Fire District includes the Fire District identified above and all areas of the Stanislaus National Forest and Calaveras Big Trees State Park accessed from State Highway Four. Ebbetts Pass Fire also provides transport paramedic services to Western Alpine County – Bear Valley, Alpine Lake, Highland Lakes area.
In 2004, thanks to a second fire/paramedic/emergency service assessment fee voted
in by the local residents, the Ebbetts Pass Fire District opened a second career
staffed fire station in Hathaway Pines. This assessment fee provides local
residents and commercial occupancies to obtain no out of pocket transport
paramedic service, also the additional personnel on duty have resulted in lower
insurance rates.
In June of 2006 personnel from Paramedic Rescue 435 laddered an exterior deck of
a fully involved single family dwelling fire rescuing two residents from the
dwelling. Having the additional personnel on duty that night resulted in a
successful rescue. The residents of the Greater Arnold Area, by imposing the
paramedic assessment fees, placed the additional personnel on duty that effected
the rescue on the early morning hours in June of 2006.
Brian Dickson
EPFD EMS Coordinator
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