News & Announcements

Kevin Leonard, a popular speaker on emergency driving will present, “Highway Street Survival” on Thursday, May 6th, 2004 at the Fire Training Center in Ballston Spa from 6:30 to 9:30 PM. This 3 hour classroom session is designed to reduce injuries and prevent fatalities among emergency responders who operate at roadway scenes. Topics include vehicle placement, use of cones, flares, lighting, protective clothing, as well as the newest information on responder safety. REMO credit for 2 hours preparatory and 1 hour operations will be awarded to attendees. A light dinner will be served. Preregistration is requested by calling County EMS Coordinator Mike McEvoy at 383-8608. Click here for a course flyer.

The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau announced it will begin sending e-mail license expiration notifications to public safety entities effective April 16th, 2004. The e-mails will be sent at intervals of 90, 60, 30 and 10 days prior to the license expiration date. Once a renewal application has been received, the e-mails will stop being sent. The FCC will continue to send a written renewal letter 90 days before expiration, and–if you’re completely in a trance–the FCC staff will make a telephone notification between one and 9 days before expiration. You should make sure that your e-mail and telephone number are correct in the FCC’s Universal Licensing System– that’s the information they’ll use to make contact with you. Surf to http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls and click on “Online Filing,” then login and select the “Update Licenses” link from the left hand navigation menu.

The EMS Council formally initiated an open comment period on a proposed Standard ALS Intercept Agreement, beginning April 12th, 2004. Several copies of an information package are being mailed to all ambulance agencies in the County and can be downloaded by clicking here. Comments are due back to the Council by Friday, July 16th and can be made by email (info@saratogaems.org), snail mail, or fax to (518) 383-4915.

Southwestern Vermont Medical Center announced plans to install a DTMF decoder on their HEAR (Hospital Emergency Administrative Radio) receiver during Spring 2004. The exact implementation date has not been set but Corps can begin programming their radios to open SVMC on frequency 155.340 using DTMF tones “017”. Medical Control physicians will continue to be available via the dedicated Med-Control landline at 802-447-5305 as in the past. Questions can be addressed to SVMC EMS Coordinator Chris Phelps at 802-447-5637.

Effective at 8:00 AM on March 31, a revised MAP will take effect for Wilton Emergency Squad. You can download the revised page #21 for your MAP Manual by clicking on the Downloads button at the top of this page.