We provide both Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Life Support (ALS) services through a tiered response system within our Fire Authority service area.  The provision of our emergency medical services is overseen by a Medical Program Director who is a physician at Providence Hospital.  Our current Medical Program Director is Dr. Josh Corsa.  He reviews our responses, training, and gives feed back through bi-monthly run reviews to ensure that we are providing high quality care to our residents.

Basic Life Support

• Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT’s)
• They receive 120 plus hours of supervised training to include National Registry of EMT testing and skills evaluations.
• EMT’s are able to assess patients and administer oxygen, glucose, asthma inhalers, nitroglycerin, and epinephrine check and inject.
• Provide medical assessments, trauma assessments, High Performance CPR, perform extrication to include backboarding, c-spine stabilization and other forms of splinting.

 Advanced Life Support

• Paramedics
• Attend 1 year of intense training which consists of didactical, clinical and field ride time followed by Nation Registry testing and skills evaluations.
• Establish IV access
• Administer a wide variety of medications
•  Perform endotracheal intubation
• Surgical cricothyrotomy
• Needle decompression of the chest
• Trained in Advanced Cardiac Life Support
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support
• Neo-natal Resuscitation
• Pre-hospital Life Support

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