Mark your calendars now!
Come join us at the annual South Orange Rescue Squad Open House.
Enjoy ice cream from Maple View Farms. See the inside of an ambulance without the emergency. Technical Rescue demos. Gator rides! And everyone’s favorite Andy the Ambulance.
Article in the September 14th Chapel Hill Herald
Text online at EMS1.com
The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5.
Prevention of exposure is the goal:
This flu is the same as any other flu and is transmitted via respiratory droplets and close personal contacts.
There are 5 key messages to controlling transmission:
Additional information is available at the following sites:
I would like to invite all fire/EMS members to the first of these monthly trainings on Sunday, May 3rd at 18:00. Dr Jose Cabanas from the UNC Emergency Department will be speaking about “New Advances in the Management of Cardiac Arrest”.
Title says it all. The latest version of the new member application was posted on the sorescue.org website earlier today.
SORS’s very own Brittany Honeycutt was on the front page of the Chapel Hill Herald this past Thursday, November 18, 2008.
The complete article is available from the Chapel Hill Herald’s website at the link above. Click on the “Read The Print Edition Online” link on the lower right side of the webpage.
South Orange sponsored and participated in the Eve Carson Memorial 5k (http://educationforeve.com/) this past weekend. Below are a couple of pictures from the event.
Who got the luck 9-1-1 number? SORS did that’s who. More specifically Brittnie did.
The following items were included in the recent SARNews (June 2007). Both are useful ICS related links.
NIMS Emergency Responder Field Operations Guide Draft Available Online
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Incident Management Systems Division is developing an Incident Command System (ICS) Emergency Responder Field Operating Guide (ERFOG). The purpose of the ERFOG is to assist emergency response personnel in the use and application of NIMS ICS during incident operations. It is currently in draft form, but nevertheless interesting to take a look at. SARNews will inform you when the final version is available. For now, you can see the draft via the link below.
http://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nims/erfog.pdf
National Incident Management System Incident Resource Inventory System(NIMS-IRIS) Release
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Incident Management Systems Division has released the build one – beta version of the NIMS Incident Resource Inventory System (NIMS-IRIS) tool to the emergency response community. It allows emergency responders to enter a community’s 120 typed resources into a common database. The capability to share and aggregate data between jurisdictions will be available in a NIMS-IRIS update scheduled for summer 2007.
The tool will assist communities with inventorying and typing resources in accordance with NIMS protocols and will facilitate quick identification of resources to support emergency response operations.
Feedback regarding the tool is welcomed and can be submitted to NIMSSC@eku.edu. Version 1NIMS-IRIS is scheduled for release September 14, 2007. The September release will incorporate user feedback to enhance existing functionality.
NIMS-IRIS is available for download at the Web site below; for a CD email IRIS@NIMSSC.net.
http://www.fema.gov/emergency/nims/rm/iris.shtm
To all the South Orange Rescue,
The Cardinal Track Club would like to thank you all for helping us cover the “Four on the Fourth” fun run this past Wednesday. There was a great turn-out and everything went off without a hitch. Thanks so much for being a part of the process, we look forward to working with you on future events.
Have a great summer.
~Nealie
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