EMS Admin Group Salutes SEMS Providers

The Saratoga County EMS Administrators Council, a group representing the Administrators of the larger ambulance services in the County issued an open letter saluting the EMS professionals working for Saratoga Emergency Medical Services (SEMS). On Friday, February 17th...

Congratulations Dr. Pomeroy!

Dr. Greer Pomeroy, who retired last year after serving over 40 years in various EMS leadership positions including more than 20 years tenure as Saratoga County EMS Medical Director, was honored October 14th at the REMO 2009 EMS Awards Ceremony held at the Hilton...

Older Pagers Not Compatible with New Alerting System

Within the next few months, Saratoga County will go live with a simulcast EMS and Fire paging system on 155.925 MHz. While designed to dramatically boost reception, the new system will operate under new FCC narrow band licensing requirements causing older pagers to no...

Nightly EMS Pager Test Format Change

Effective July 7, 2010, the nightly (18:00) EMS pager test will be abbreviated to only four agencies: Providence, Edinburg, Stillwater, and General Schuyler. This resulted from a survey of EMS Administrators and Chief Officers conducted last month, subsequently...

Automatic Mutual Aid Memo Issued

County EMS Coordinator Mike McEvoy issued a February 23rd memo reminding agencies of their obligation to keep Communications advised of crew status. Many agencies have not complied with County and REMO policies requiring notification to EMS Dispatch when crews are not...