Our Services All Volunteer Service BLS and ALS Emergency Medical Services Special Events (With Bike Team) Vehicle Rescue (Heavy & Light) Technical Rescue High & Low Angle Rope Rescue Trench Collapse Rescue Building Collapse Rescue (Heavy & Light) Confined Space Rescue Swift Water and Dive Rescue Mass Casualty Response Fire Support
Overview Our Agency Our Members Our Service Area Our Apparatus Our Services Local EMS Training
Our Agency Training
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Our History Then Founded: November 15th, 1960 Membership: 42 members 40 men and 2 women Apparatus: 2 ambulances 3 station wagons Calls Answered: 260
Our History Milestones 1969 - CARS was the first squad in the state to offer ALS service One of our very first patients was President Lyndon Johnson while visiting the University Dr. Richard Crampton, a UVA Cardiologist instrumental in setting up our Mobile Coronary Care program Pantridge model Calls screened in C.C.U. Medical Resident and ED Nurse to scene
Our History Milestones 1973 - CARS started "stand alone" ALS coverage by utilizing a telemetry radio to call the UVA CCU for ALS orders and advice In 1976, CARS becomes the first squad in the state to require all its members to be certified as E.M.T. s In 1993, CARS formed all-volunteer technical rescue team
Our History Now Calls Answered: 12,000+ 16,000+ responses A fleet of 23 155 active members (all volunteer) 55% UVA Students 54% ALS Providers 19 Shock Traumas 36 Cardiac Technicians 24 Paramedics» 15 Critical Care Paramedics
Our Members
Our Agency The Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad (CARS) provides primary rescue and emergency medical services to: The City of Charlottesville The University of Virginia Most of Albemarle County The Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad provides ALS & technical rescue mutual aid to: UVA Medical Center - ALS Transport Unit Scottsville Rescue Squad Western-Albemarle Rescue Squad 5 Surrounding Counties
Our Station 8 Bays Sleeping Quarters For 15
Substation Serves Urban Corridor Northern End Of County Four Live-In Run In Exchange For Free Housing
Service TrainingArea
Service Area CARS First-Due
Service Area Service Population: County of Albemarle: 84,000 City Of Charlottesville: 40,000 UVA Students: 22,000
Service Area Interstate 64 Interstate & Intrastate Commerce Commuter Traffic 38,000 Vehicles Daily 4,200 Tractor Trailers
Service Area U.S. Route 250 Interstate & Intrastate Commerce Commuter Traffic 33,000 Vehicles Daily
Service Area U.S. Route 29 Commuter & Commerce Route 59,000 Vehicles Daily 1,770 Tractor Trailers
Service Area Thomas Jefferson Parkway
Service Area The University of Virginia 22,000 Students 4,100 Employees
Service Area Rural Farmland Farms Of All Sizes (<100 acres to 10,000+) Long Travel Times Poor Access Farm Accidents
Service Area Agricultural Commerce Farms Horse Industry Cattle
Service Area High Density Urban
Service Area Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Airport
Service Area Rapid Growth On-Going Construction Technical Rescues
Total EMS Incidents 12000 10000 8000 6000 4000 CARS WARS SRS Other 2000 0 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994
Incident Jurisdiction 5500 5000 4500 4000 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 Charlottesville Albemarle Albemarle - North WARS Area SRS Area Out-of-County U.Va.
Calls for Service December 2002 Rescue Squads - 1,049 City Fire - 333 County Fire - 540 Police Charlottesville - 4,297 Albemarle - 4,545 UVA - 1,330
Our Apparatus Training
Our Apparatus The CARS Fleet Consists Of: Eight (8) Advanced Life Support Ambulances Seven (7) Type I Ambulances All 4-wheel drive One (1) Type III Ambulance
Our Apparatus Four Advanced Life Support Zone Cars One (1) Supervisor s Vehicle Three (3) 4WD Zone Cars One (1) 2WD Zone Car
Our Apparatus Three Heavy Squads 2WD Heavy Rescue AWD Heavy Rescue Technical Rescue Squad
Our Apparatus Support Vehicles One (1) Quad-Cab Pickup Truck One (1) Special Events Trailer One (1) Collapse Trailer One (1) Mass Casualty Response Trailer Road Safety System
Our Apparatus Trench & Building Collapse Trailer
Our Apparatus Mass Casualty Response Trailer
Our Services Training
Special Events Large Venues UVA Football Games (60,000+) UVA Graduation (30,000+) Richmond NASCAR (100,000+)
Special Events ALS and BLS Teams Bike Team Command/Logistics Staff Support Equipment
Special Events Apparatus: Unmarked Ford F-350 Quad Cab 18 Modular Special Events Trailer
Special Events Operate On Separate Radio System Mobile Repeater For Greater Coverage Local Talk-Around Channels Custom CADLite Dispatch Software System
Special Events Bike Team Subset Of The Special Events Team 25 Active Members High Performance Mountain Bikes Equipped With: AED s Bandages BLS & ALS Airways IV Supplies Medications
Special Events UVA Stadium Events Football Games Concerts
Vehicle Rescue Light & Heavy Rescue Capabilities Operate 2 Heavy Squads 2WD & 4WD Team of 34 Active Members
Vehicle Rescue
Vehicle Rescue
Water Rescue Primary Water Rescue Team For County One Of Three In Region Capabilities: Swift Water Rescue Dive Rescue Ice Rescue
Technical Rescue Low-Angle Rope Rescue High-Angle Rope Rescue Trench Collapse Rescue Confined Space Rescue Wood Building Collapse Concrete Building Collapse
Technical Rescue High-Angle Rope Rescue
Technical Rescue Trench Collapse Rescue
Technical Rescue Confined Space Rescue
Technical Rescue Wood Frame Building Collapse
Technical Rescue Concrete Building Collapse
Fire Suppression
VA Task Force II Readily Available Team Comprised Of: a Basic Life Support Ambulance with crew an Advanced Life Support Ambulance with crew a Rescue (Squad) Truck with crew a Zone Car a Disaster Truck or Trailer a Specialty Units technical rescue, water rescue a Task Force Commander
Automatic Mutual Aid Medic V
Mutual Aid
Local Training EMS
Local EMS Police/Rescue PSAP Medical Dispatch Protocols and Prearrival Instrucions
Local EMS Volunteer Scottsville Day ACFR staff Fire Department First-Responder Rescue Squad Transport
Local EMS UVA Aeromedical Service (Pegasus)
Local EMS The University Of Virginia Medical Center Level 1 Trauma and Specialty Center
Local EMS The University Of Virginia Medical Center Treated 29,000 In-Patients Last Year 585 Bed Facility ED Treats 60,000 Annually
Local EMS Martha Jefferson Hospital Private Community Hospital
Training
Training Vehicle Rescue Developed In-House Taught Annually Premiere Vehicle Extrication Class In The State Brings In Instructors From Across The Eastern Seaboard
Training
Training Wood Frame Building Collapse Class
Training Over 60 technical rescue specialists from as far away as Sarasota County Florida 30-hour intense, challenging and difficult training course. Taught: Heavy concrete lifting operations Breaching and breaking walls Emergency building shoring.
Training
Training Super EMT Class Taught Annually In-House Each Summer In addition to EMT-B, students are taught: VDFP Hazardous Materials Awareness CARS Technical Rescue Awareness UVA Pegasus Landing Zone class VDFP Swift Water Awareness VDFP Vehicle Rescue VDFP Rope Rescue I VDFP Trench Rescue VAVRS Emergency Vehicle Operator Class VAVRS Basic & Light Rescue VDFP Confined Space Rescue
Training Super EMT Class
Training
Thanks!! www.carsrescue.org Training Dayton Haugh, Chief