Guidelines for Hopewell Valley Squads dealing with suspected swine flu patients have been posted.
Pictures and the program for the 2009 Captain's party have been posted.
A new base station radio has been installed and new, simplified instructions for the home alert test are available.
Pictures from the 2007 Memorial Day Parade at the squad have been added to the collection. Thanks to Julie Aberger for sharing.
Extensive helps for emsCharts have been added to the web site. Each page of a chart is reproduced in the helps. Help for each entry will "pop up" as the user slides the mouse pointer over it.
The Pennington First Aid Squad Responded to 1029 calls in 2008, up 2.7% from 2007.
The Boro of Pennington accounted for 24% of these calls with most of the remainder in Hopewell Township. Five locations accounted for 22% of our calls: Stony Brook Assisted Living (71), Merrill-Lynch (56), Hopewell Garden Apartments (51), Hopewell Township police (30) and Woolsey Court (18).
The PFAS supplied mutual aid to Ewing (52), Lawrence (30), Union (26), Hopewell (7), Princeton (3), and Trenton (2). In return, we received mutual aid 35 times, almost entirely from Hopewell Valley Emergency Services. The mutual aid we provided was up dramatically from 83 calls in 2007 to 120 calls in 2008, but the mutual aid we received dropped from 45 calls to 35 calls.
Our work could not have been accomplished without the work of the dedicated volunteers who responded to calls, kept our building and ambulances in order, helped with fund drives, and recruited and trained new members. The PFAS training center conducted two complete EMT-B courses and regular, monthly drills this year. Sixty-four of our members responded to at least 1 call throughout the year and 20 responded to more than 50 calls.
PFAS salutes the top ten responders for 2008. Together these ten made 1310 responses to calls for help from our community.
PFAS top ten responders for 2008. From top left: Neal Blackwell, Daniel Boone, Richard Gordon, Brian Haig, John Muccioli, Cindy Orlandi, Kristen Orlandi, Zay Risinger, Kirk Schmitt, Tom Tedd