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Does your agency have a "special operations" group or division? and by this, I mean a select group of people within your agency that have additional training is another area, as well as additional vehicles that are designed for non-routine operations?

and what type of vehicles and incidents would your SOG/SOD people respond to?

in this case, I am only referring to EMS only, both paid and volunteer.
 
Yes. We have an extensive SpecOps division.

SpecOps oversees all of the special events that require medics, the bike team, public relations events, HazMat and decon, MCI/Med Surge and all of our non daily deployed units.

We currently have a a gator and large golf cart, both with stretchers, a large med surge truck for MCIs, a MCI trailer, a hazmat truck and trailer, 18 bikes, a special events/PR truck, a special operations SUV and a few other things I'm sure I'm missing.


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oh, and do you have assigned people who just do special ops, or do you pull people off their trucks to man them? and was your special operations training paid for (if you were paid by your agency)?
 
DrParasite said:
Does your agency have a "special operations" group or division? and by this, I mean a select group of people within your agency that have additional training is another area, as well as additional vehicles that are designed for non-routine operations?

and what type of vehicles and incidents would your SOG/SOD people respond to?

in this case, I am only referring to EMS only, both paid and volunteer.
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Yup, we operate in conjunction with our townships Office of Emergency Management (who provides HAZMAT service for 1/2 the county and backup for the county Health Hazmat team for the rest) to provide confined space and technical rope rescue.

We also operate:
Dive Rescue with a dedicated vehicle
Vehicle Rescue with a dedicated vehicle
A Field Comm which backs up the county sheriffs communications division

And in partnership with the state EMS Task Force
Mass Casualty Evacuation Bus, much like FDNYs MERV
Special Operations vehicle that provided long term climate controlled field hospital tentage with power, water and heat and a 4x4 gator
A selective 6x6 off road ambulance on a polaris chassis

All of our personnel are volunteers and respond when paged
 
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Rescue/Haz-tac trucks.

Both pretty much worthless wastes of tons of money.
 
Catches be off guard to see blue light on a non-police vehicle.
 
We have a special events division that uses Gators and T3s, no bike teams yet but I heard rumors about it. They have a giant trailer that they take to the big events with all their equipment in it. They are completely separate from our Ground Operations division.

We also have a TEMS team, they operate with federal, state and local SWAT teams. They have their own 15 passenger chevy van capable of running code 3 and filled with goodies. Once they get on scene they join up with the SWAT team and operate out of the armored vehicles. They also have extended protocols compared to ground medics. Again a separate division from Ground Operations but they all work full time on the ground or for our HEMS service and do the TEMS thing on-call.

Another newer one is our SAR team, it's pretty new and they haven't been deployed to a SAR mission yet but it will happen sooner or later. They operate with local volunteer and the SO SAR teams. All are trained for helicopter operations and winch rescue/recoveries. From what I've heard they operate off of our standard protocols. Again all these medics work full time on the ground or for HEMS and do SAR on-call like the TEMS guys.

The newest addition, which hasn't started operations yet, is our Community Paramedicine program. They will be running around in smaller SUVs rather than ambulances. From my understanding they are part of the Ground Operations division however have a separate QA/QI officer and respond to low acuity 911 calls and are capable of treat and release without the AMA portion, triage and transport to Urgent Cares rather than an ER and also do scheduled home care similar to Home Health RNs. This is the plan at least, we are still smoothing out the bumps, and provided everything goes as planned they will be starting operations sometime in the next 12 months. Another rumor I have heard is eventually they will have extended protocols and respond to high acuity 911 calls or by crew request and will essentially be "Advanced Practice" paramedics with things such as RSI along with meds not available to our standard ground medics. The program is based off of the programs Wake County EMS in North Carolina and MedStar in Fort Worth, TX are running.
 
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We have both a MIRT(think of SWAT @ the county level) and Technical Rescue (USAR Medical specialists for the county USAR team. I am part of both. Tac med is paid, USAR is a vollie component. I completed my USAR medical training in Harrisburg @ the federal level x few years back and just completed tac med. training last year.

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We have a raceway team. We also have a county bike team and Honor guard team.

Every employee is able to join a disaster team with no additional training.

A division close to us has a tactical medic team.

And we also have a mobile healthcare program. They do drug and alcohol testing Long with CPR/first aid training and deal with small injuries that don't require a trip to the hospital.
 
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