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...

Radio Project Information Meeting Scheduled

The Office of Emergency Services will hold an informational meeting on Thursday, February 4th, 2010 starting at 7:00 pm at the Hyatt located at Exit 12 and Rte 67 in Malta. Representatives from each EMS agency are encouraged to attend to learn more about the final...

Flu Vaccine PODs are a GO

Saratoga County is offering both seasonal and H1N1 influenza vaccinations to EMS, Fire, and Law Enforcement members through our POD (Point Of Distribution) system. Members (and high risk family members aged 19 or older) who registered to attend one of the PODs...

EMS Dispatch Migration Complete

The planned cut of EMS communications with Dispatch from the current 155.925 MHz to the EMS Ops 154.355 frequency has been completed. We have contacted as many mutual aid agencies as possible to advise them of the need to modify their radios. Click here for a copy of...

Council Rescinds Countywide ALS Intercept Agreement

Participants in the Countywide ALS Intercept Agreement initially effected in 2004 have been notified that the Saratoga County EMS Council will rescind the agreement effective June 1, 2009. Originally effected to facilitate ALS Intercepts and payment between services...