1st Responder Wireless News New York Sullivan County Reforms the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services. By ROB CARNELL Correspondent 1st Responder Network Story Number 071613101 Disclaimer: This article is a direct street report from our correspondent and has not been edited by the 1st Responder newsroom. In 1997, the County Government established by County Charter the formation of the office EMS Coordinator, which will be under the Office of Emergency Management. Through the years we have seen many Deputy Coordinators come and go and as of April of 2013, there were no deputies. The EMS Coordinator approached the County Legislature with the problem at hand and by majority approval. Three deputy coordinators have been approved to assist the County EMS Coordinator with any work that may need to be done. At the end of April, the EMS Coordinator asked for three interested parties. The Legislature approved the three persons to take over effective immediately. It is part of our desires to establish more education opportunities at the County Training Center. We also want to start doing an annual or bi-annual mass casualty event. The last time that EMS worked with the Bureau of Fire was over 10 years ago. We have been told that we have over 100% support from the Bureau of Fire, and the Departments that fall under that bureau. It is our eventual desire that the Ambulance Services (Paid or Volunteer) see that the Bureau of EMS is for real and that we mean business. The bureau is very excited to get to work on an array of different projects. Now is the perfect time to introduce the EMS Coordinator and his deputies: EMS-1 Greg Tavormina: Greg has been involved in EMS for many years and for the last 10 years he has been named the EMS Coordinator. To reach Greg his email is [email protected] EMS-2 Ann Steimle: Anne has been involved in EMS for over 17 years. She is the current president of the Lumberland FD and has been former captain of that department and has been an EMT for close to 20 years. To reach Ann, her email is: [email protected] EMS-3 Rob Carnell: Rob Has always had an affinity to emergency services since he was a child. At the age of 16, he became certified as a CFR in 1995 and moved to EMT in 1998. He then moved on to Paramedic in 2000. Rob is also currently studying Emergency Management. Rob has been a line officer for Rock Hill EMS for the last 2 years. To reach Rob contact him at [email protected] EMS-4 Joel Sherwood: Joel has been involved in EMS for quite some time and currently serves as the Captain of Livingston Manor EMS. He also works outside of Sullivan County for a commercial agency. To reach Joel contact him at [email protected] We hope to hear from you and perhaps help you out if need be, or take your advice as needed. Since we are establishing the Bureau as a new agency, there is still a lot of work that needs to be done. We are working on en massing all sorts of documents to see what can be used and what needs to be destroyed. We are hoping that we can go through these documents quickly and start on get out number one goals in the works. For example we are working on getting the bureaus county website up and running. Further, we want to host am independent website that will be chock full of interesting items and a calendar of events. So keep your eyes open to when we will be hosting classes or sponsoring community and county wide events. We hope that we can show the EMS agencies in Sullivan County that we are truly there for them, and that we will not be there to take over their scene but to be there to help coordinate the use of resources that an officer of a corps ,may not have access to.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 05:48:19 +0000
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