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Resolution to Approve Participation in 2015 Assistance to Firefighters Regional Grant (AFG) from the US Department of Homeland Security ($767,142.00), Appropriate Matching Grant Funds ($41,763.55), and Establish and Appropriate Funding for the Project ($697,401.82) (Advanced Life Support Training) (8 Votes Required)
Memorandum
The attached resolution allows the continuation of the application process for a 2015 Assistance to Firefighters Regional Grant (AFG) from the US Department of Homeland Security and authorizes the acceptance of the grant if awarded.
The grant will provide advanced life support (ALS) medical training, required equipment for specified ALS vehicles, and ALS medical equipment to enable participating fire departments to provide continual education for trained personnel. Four Washtenaw Area Mutual Aid Association fire departments are working together in seeking the competitive grant to provide better and more immediate ALS services for their communities.
Immediate advanced medical care by the Fire Department has been identified as a need on emergency scenes especially on specialty scenes such as motor vehicle extrications, trench rescue, rope rescues, water rescues, and collapsed structures where only firefighters have access to critical patients.
This grant will allow for the enhancement of our Basic Life Support (BLS) emergency medical response to Advanced Life Support (ALS) response on a specified amount of responding emergency apparatus. This grant will also allow us to equip, maintain, and staff a total of six ALS first response apparatus in the participating communities. With the strategic location of our fire department stations, we are consistently on scene ahead of the current ALS crews provided by a third party ambulance service. The addition of having ALS care would enhance the overall emergency response system. Thirteen AAFD personnel will be trained as EMT-P and three front line apparatus will be equipped and certifie...
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