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Victim &
Family Assistance Program
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Provides
information and support services to victims and/or family members after or
during emergency medical care. |
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Includes
care of victim and family through a serious emergency event. Includes
resource booklet to assist citizens. |
After the Fire
Assistance Program
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Provides
information and support services to victims of serious fires. |
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Includes
information on next steps with dealing with the aftermath of a serious fire. |
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Includes
resource booklet to assist citizens |
Neighborhood Fire
Station Open Houses
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Periodic Open
Houses at fire stations during the year. |
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Provides
citizens opportunities to meet their fire and rescue "neighbors". |
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Provides forum
to provide educational, operational and organizational information/materials
to our citizens |
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Automated
External Defibrillators (AED’s)
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Defibrillators
are placed on all first due fire units and many rapid response staff vehicles. |
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Are used by
first arriving fire and rescue EMTs on cardiac arrest patients prior to
advanced life support units arriving on scene. |
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Provides
quicker immediately-needed care to cardiac arrest victims |
CAD/NCIC-VCIN
Interface
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Provides direct
computer linkage between the division Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) System and
the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), as well as the Virginia Criminal
Identification Network (VCIN). |
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Provides
critical information to law enforcement offices quicker and more efficiently
when time is crucial. |
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9-1-1 Mutual Aid
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Agreement
between York County and James City County to serve as backup 9-1-1 centers
should a failure of either of the 9-1-1 centers occur. |
"Neighbors
Helping Neighbors" – Neighborhood Fire Station Volunteers
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Provides
trained supplemental fire and rescue staffing for each of the County’s fire
stations and at special activities/events. |
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In addition,
citizens can volunteer to provide other unique services and/or support
functions |
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Volunteer
application is available by clicking here |
Blood Pressure
Monitoring
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Free blood
pressure checks on demand at any conveniently located Neighborhood Fire
Station |
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Medical
Information Card
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Bright yellow
card for purse/wallet with important emergency information and a place to
record blood pressure checks |
Fire Station
Tours
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Age appropriate
tours of Neighborhood Fire Stations, apparatus and equipment. |
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Can be tailored
to specific requests. |
Equipment Visits
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Visits to
display apparatus and equipment or demonstrate skills for public information
and educational purposes. |
Fire Extinguisher
Training
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Hands-on
classes provided upon request to train adults in the proper use of portable
fire extinguishers (cost of extinguisher refills only). |
Providing
Assistance to Life Safety (PALS) Program
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Fire and Life Safety members
install smoke detectors and/or batteries in homes that otherwise could not
afford them or where occupants are not physically capable of installing them. |
Child-seat Awareness and
Restraint Education (CARE) Program
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Free child safety seat
inspections and instruction on proper installation is provided at various fire
stations and special events. |
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Information on proper use of
restraint systems for children. |
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Information on product
alert/recalls affecting child safety seat |
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Juvenile Firesetter Education
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An age appropriate, structured
educational program designed to help children caught in inappropriate behavior
with fire learn about its dangers and proper use. |
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Multiple sessions. |
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Involves both the child and the
parent. |
Risk Watch
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Educational program teaching
fire and life safety education to second graders in York County’s public
school and participating private schools. |
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A trained and certified Fire
and Life Safety Educator provides four lessons to each class during
the school year. |
Fall Prevention Program
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Program to provide free safety
inspections to identify potential trip/fall hazards in the home and strategies
to eliminate them. |
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Another aspect of the program
helps identify equipment needs and referrals for professional assistance. |
"Heads-Up" Program
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Program in which dispatchers
provide emergency responders with important information about pre-existing
conditions or situations at the scene of an emergency. |
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The information is provided by
residents with high risk medical conditions, mobility problems, special needs,
etc., and maintained in a special confidential computer database. |
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The information is relayed to
emergency responders to give them a "heads up" when they receive a
call to respond to that address. |
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Application
is available by clicking here |
For
information on any of these programs, please call
the Department of Fire and
Life Safety at 890-3600 Monday through Friday 8:15 A.M. until 5 P.M.
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Safety Town
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Summertime week-long programs
provided at four elementary schools providing pre-schoolers with a variety of
age appropriate fire and life safety educational experiences. |
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A collaborative effort of many
County departments, the schools, volunteers an businesses, the program
provides pre-schoolers with important basic safety concepts. |
Emergency Cellular Call Boxes
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Solar-powered emergency
telephones with direct cellular access to the County’s Emergency
Communications (9-1-1) Center are provided on remote County roads to assist
citizens reporting emergencies. |
Language Line
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Program using a service from
AT&T to provide foreign language interpreters by a telephone link in the
Emergency Communications (9-1-1) Center during emergencies. |
Special Needs Program
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An educational program for
health care providers and the general public to assist individuals with
special needs to prepare to react and survive disasters and major
community-wide emergencies such as hurricanes. |
Pre-Arrival Emergency Medical
Instructions
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Emergency Telecommunicators are
cross-trained to provide emergency medical instructions by telephone to family
members or bystanders reporting emergencies. This allows life-saving care to
be rendered while awaiting the arrival of Fire and Life Safety emergency
medical care providers. |
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File of Life
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Cooperative effort with the
York County Sheriff’s Office and various civic groups and businesses to
provide citizens with an easily identified magnetic pouch to hold critical
patient medical information in case of emergencies. |
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Pouch is attached to the
outside of the refrigerator in easy view of emergency responders. |
Emergency
Preparedness
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Information
on how the public can plan and prepare for various kinds of emergencies. |
For
information on any of these programs, please call the Department of Fire and
Life Safety at 890-3600 Monday through Friday 8:15 A.M. until 5 P.M.
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