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Carl Zeilman -- Director czeilman@saratogacountyny.gov

Ed Tremblay--Fire Coordinator etremblay@saratogacountyny.gov

Mike McEvoy -EMS Coordinator mmcevoy@saratogacountyny.gov

Kelly Cook - Administrative kcook@saratogacountyny.gov

Jamie Johnson - Administrative jjohnson@saratogacountyny.gov Taylor Salaway - Administrative Tsalaway@saratogacountyny.gov

Mike Stanley- Specialist Mstanley@saratogacountyny.gov

Saratoga County Office of Emergency Services25 West High Street - Ballston Spa, NY 12020

(518) 885-2232 Fax: (518) 884-4707

In This Issue

Page 2 Tremblay Elected to Top Post Page 2 Fire Services

Page 3EMT Courses Announced

Page 3Cyanokits Redeployed

Page 4Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office

Page 4Seen at the Fair

Page 5County EMS Agencies Participate in FDNY Funeral

Page 6New App for First Responders Page 7Paramedic & EMT Exam

Page 8I-300 Training Announcement

Saratoga County Office of Emergency Services

Carl Zeilman Director

It has started out to be quite-a-busy Summer for Emergency Services across Saratoga County. 7200 Blotters punched since

June 21st. On top of the numerous law, fire and medical calls severe weather has impacted the county on more than one occa-sion since the start of the Summer season.

With the onset of severe weather, I’d like to share with you an App provid-ed by National Grid that you may find useful. The iRestore App is a smartphone and tablet

App for Fire, Police and EMS that provide services

in the National Grid electric and gas territories. The App allows users to provide improved situ-ational awareness at the scene of an incident that involves National Grid Infrastructure. For more information on the iRestore App, please visit: http://ngrid.irestore.mobi/

I’d like to point out the importance of record keeping and documentation before, during and after a major weather-related event. To be considered for reimbursement we need to be able to provide FEMA with a clear and complete view of damages, work performed or will perform, and costs incurred. The easiest way to do this is through accurate docu-mentation.

Saratoga County has been notified that it is one of 28 counties that have been granted assistance from FEMA as a result of the costs incurred battling winter storm Stella on March 14 and 15. Thank you to Mike Stanley and Taylor Salaway in the Office of Emer-gency Services, who worked with municipalities and school districts and applied for $850,198.65 in reimbursement funding. The funding request included costs for salt and snow-removal equipment and overtime costs associated with the storm.

The Office of Emergency Services in collaboration with National Grid hosted an electric and natural gas line safety demonstration for about 120 first responders including fire-fighters, EMTs, police and DPW personnel on Tuesday, June 27th at the Saratoga County Fairgrounds. Thank you to National Grid for bringing this training back to the County.

For those who utilize the County 800 MHz radio system, if you have an is-sue with your portable or mobile unit, or need program a new unit for the system, please submit your request on the County radio portal by accessing the website: http://radio.saratogacountyny.gov/

Finally, please join me in welcoming Les Bonesteel as our newest Deputy Fire Coordina-tor, Fire Car 2 and Ron Dunn as the Chief of our County Hazmat team.

Have a safe and enjoyable Summer.

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Ed Tremblay, is the Saratoga County Fire Coordi-nator and Deputy Director of the Of-fice of Emergency Services. Ed is also a Life Member of both West Crescent Fire Department and Clifton Park Halfmoon Ambulance. Ed can be reached at: etremblay@saratogacountyny.gov

Firefighters practice their donning and doffing skills during their last session of Firefighter I training at the

Saratoga County Fire Training Center.

Firefighter Recruit Training

Ron Dunn has been named Chief of the Saratoga County Hazmat

Response Team. With more than 30 years experience with the New York State Office of Fire Prevention and Control, Chief Dunn has extensive knowledge responding to incidents and developing and delivering training programs around Hazard-ous Materials. Chief Dunn is an active firefighter with the Ballston Lake Fire Department where he also

serves as the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners.

Dunn Named Chief of Hazmat Response Team

If you haven’t done so already, please contact me with the amount and types of containers (pail, tote, etc.,) that

you have on-hand. The Office of Emergency Services will be using the County Fire Training Center as a collection point and will advise of the date(s) and time that you may drop it off. We still haven’t heard from several depart-ments.

The 2017 New York State Budget appropriated $500,000 for the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to collect from fire departments types of Class B foam concentrate containing or likely to contain perfluori-nated compounds and properly dispose of the foam con-centrate collected due to the environmental risk posed by those materials. The following Class B foam concentrates are eligible for collection and disposal at no charge to the fire depart-ments:• Any foam concentrate manufactured by 3M.• Any foam concentrate manufactured before 2003 or where the date of manufacture is unknown.• Any foam concentrate that is unlabeled.• Any foam concentrate that has been mixed with other foam. To facilitate this collection process DEC has request-ed assistance from OFPC to coordinate with the Coun-ty Fire Coordinator’s Offices to address the following:

• Notification of the fire departments in each county of the foam collection process.• Identifying the amounts of foam concentrate to be col-lected in each county (and if feasible, the number and type of containers: five gallon pail, drum or tote).• Identification of a central collection point in each county where fire departments can deliver foam for collection by DEC. County Collection Point will be at the FTC. DEC would like to complete collection of the foam concen-trate by 8/31/17. If you have questions, contact our office at 885-2232.

Class B Foam Collection Process

Tremblay Elected to Top Post

Saratoga County Fire Coordinator Ed Tremblay was recently elected President of the

County Fire Cordinators’ Association of New York State.

The NYS Fire Coordinator’s Association represents members from nearly every County in New York State. Their mission is to provide a forum for members to share relevant fire service information and experiences, to advocate in the development and passage of fire and safety related legislation in state government, and to ad-vance the personal and professional growth of its mem-bership.

To learn more about the County Fire Coordinator’s As-sociation of the State of New York visit their webpage at: www.nysfca.org

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Saratoga County EMS

Mike McEvoy, PhD, NRP, RN, CCRN is the

EMS Coordinator for Saratoga County, paramedic supervisor for Clifton Park & Halfmoon Ambulance, firefighter and chief medical officer for West Crescent Fire and EMS editor for Fire Engineering maga-zine. He is a nurse clinician in the cardiothoracic surgical ICU at Albany Med where he also teaches critical care medicine and chairs the hospital resus-citation committee. Mike also serves on the EMS Section Board of the International Association of Fire Chiefs and the board of the National Registry for EMTs.

Mechanicville Railway Exercise

Fall EMT Courses Announced

The Office of Emergency Services works closely with fire, police and ems agen-

cies from across Saratoga County protect-ing life and property.

As a way to show off our partnership, we are in the process of creating a first responder wall where we can proudly display your departments colors. To date, we have had 15 departments submit their patch to us. If you would you like to provide OES with a patch for the wall, please send it to: The Saratoga County Office of Emergency Services, 25 West High Street, Ballston Spa, NY 12020.

Send Us Your Department Patch

County EMS Coordinator, Mike McEvoy (left) speaks to Fire Coordinator Ed Tremblay (right)

and deputy fire coordinator John Cooper (cen-ter) at the Naval Nuclear S8G-Protoype Refuel-ing Transportation Exercise at the Mechanicville Railyard in June.

Saratoga County EMS has an-nounced two EMT original courses

and one EMT refresher course for the Fall 2017 semester. An EMT original course will be held at the Fire Train-ing Center in Ballston Spa on Monday and Wednesday nights. Another EMT original course for military veterans will be held at the Clifton Park & Half-

moon Ambulance Corps on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and an EMT refresher course will be held at the Malta-Still-water EMS main station in Malta. Details and registration information are available on the EMS Council web site at www.saratogaems.org/register.

The Food and Drug Administra-tion (FDA) has extended the

expiration dates of several drugs used by EMS agencies because of shortages. The listing of af-fected medications is posted at https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/

DrugSafety/DrugShortages/ucm563360.htm.

FDA Extends Expiration Dates

Cyanokits were recently re-deployed by County EMS

Coordinator Mike McEvoy. Kits are now carried by Wilton EMS, Saratoga Fire Department, Community Emergency Corps, Clifton Park & Halfmoon EMS. Cyanokit, an antidote for cya-nide, is available for adminis-tration by a paramedic to vic-tims of smoke inhalation and has been responsible for successful resuscitation of eight fire victims in Saratoga County since their initial deploy-ment in 2001who would most likely not have survived with-out the medication. Any fire or EMS responder can request response of a Cyanokit by contacting Firecom or EMS Dis-patch. The redeployment is designed to deliver the anti-dote to any scene in Saratoga County within 20 minutes.

Cyanokits Redeployed Across County

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Saratoga County Sheriff’s Deputy David Rodak recently completed deep water and evidence recovery training.

Sheriff Michael Zurlo addresses Fair participants at the Opening Ceremony for the 176th Saratoga County Fair.

Sergeant Brent Dupras shows young Fairgoer’s one of the department’s snowmobiles at the Saratoga County Fair.

Sheriff’s Color Guard participated in the Special Olym-pics Summer Games Opening ceremony at Siena College.

During the severe weather event on July 17th, SCSO Communications handled 128 incidents across the county in a short time frame. Nice Job!

Sheriff’s Deputy Joe Shields fingerprints a small child as part of the Safe Child ID program at the Saratoga County Fair.

Sheriff’s Office in Action Seen at the Saratoga County Fair

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Did you know that the Office of Emergency Services operates a web portal for reporting all radio (mobile/

portable) equipment failure? You can also request radio service’s to include installation and re-programming via this same portal.

To ensure that your request is met in an efficient manner, please conduct all radio requests through the radio web portal.

Click the link below to learn more.

http://radio.saratogacountyny.gov/

Radio Portal

Four Saratoga County EMS agencies participated on March 25th as Regional Representatives at the Bronx FDNY*EMS funeral for EMT Yadira Arroyo who was killed when a drug crazed criminal stole her ambulance and ran her down.

The Regional contingent included ambulance from Clifton Park & Halfmoon, Moreau and Wilton as well as a fly car from Ballston Lake. The crews joined 9,000 others from across the U.S. to remember Arroyo, aged 44 who left behind five sons, ages 7 to 24.

Saratoga County EMS Agencies Participate in FDNY EMS Funeral

The Saratoga County Local Emergency Planning Com-mittee (LEPC) met on Wednesday, July 26th in the

Office of Emergency Services. The committee will meet next at 2pm on the dates listed below. Meetings are open to those interested in attending.

The LEPC set its 2017 schedule as:•Wednesday, September 27•Wednesday, December 13

2017 LEPC

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When auto accidents, fires, and natural disasters occur, first responders are usually the initial people on the scene. As a result, they face the greatest risk from utility haz-

ards such as downed power lines or ruptured gas pipes. To give them an extra tool for reporting these hazards, National Grid unveiled a new application at the Saratoga County Fairgrounds in Ballston Spa on Tuesday, June 27th for nearly 200 first responders from Saratoga and Schenectady counties.

The new smart device app, called the First Responder Mobile Reporting app by iRestore, will give first responders the ability to report emergency situations in-volving the company’s gas and electric infrastructure. National Grid is the first in the country to use the new application. The app has been in use by the compa-ny in New England since last year. For more information on the App, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUjGfMJ_ry0&feature=youtu.be

The program will provide first responders with the ability to send photographs and de-scriptions to National Grid control centers, giving responding crews more detailed infor-mation of potential damage to the company’s electric and gas infrastructure. The addi-tional information from the app will provide an “eyes-on” field assessment to key National Grid personnel.

“During all emergency and service restoration efforts, National Grid evaluates its crisis and response planning,” said National Grid Regional Executive Laurie Poltynski,. “By lis-tening to customers, the company worked to develop the First Responder app as another tool to enhance communication during emergencies and help protect the public safety and the safety of our employees.”

The app demonstration was only part of the planned events for the day, which also gave first responders and public works personnel a front row seat to training about the dangers of live downed electrical wires as well as what occurs

when a third-party contractor damages National Grid’s un-derground gas pipes. Simulations were performed to show how electricity can pose danger to first responders and res-idents when downed wires energize the ground and metal objects, and a simulated pipeline rupture gave participants a glimpse into how quickly gas can dissipate into the air after a dig-up. The training was welcomed by local officials.

“Safety of our residents is always a top priority of Saratoga County,” said Galway Supervisor Paul Lent, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors Public Safety Committee. “This impor-tant training provided by National Grid ensures our first responders are prepared to react to these dangerous situ-ations appropriately.”

Participants were also given a tour of National Grid’s Mobile Emergency Operations Center, a traveling communications and command vehicle that gives the company portability to

provide response support during major storm and interruption events. The MEOC is equipped with a 25-kW diesel generator.

The event was a collaboration between National Grid and Saratoga County, who hosted the event.

“Saratoga County is pleased to partner with National Grid to ensure our first responders are ready to handle any dangerous situation involving utility hazards, such as gas leaks or downed power lines,” said Stillwater Supervisor Ed Kinowski, Chairman of the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors. “We thank National Grid for their safety stewardship, and assistance in preparation for dangerous events that may occur.”

New App for First Responders Revealed at National Grid Training

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Pre-Planning for the Fair

CodeRED is an emergency warning tool used to make rapid emergency telephone notifications to residents

and businesses in precise geographic areas. CodeRED will be used by Saratoga County emergency officials, during emergencies only, to deliver incident-specific information or potentially life-saving instruction to those in the affect-ed area(s). CodeRED integrates mapping technology with phone data-bases, and will call listed and unlisted land line telephone numbers for Saratoga County residences and businesses. Cellular phone numbers are not automatically included in the system database, nor are Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone systems. If you would like to receive these emergency telephone notifications on your cellular or VoIP phone, you must first register these phone numbers. You may register at the Self-Registration Portal by clicking:https://public.coderedweb.com/cne/en-US/BF26DE55718D

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Fire, Police and EMS agencies met with personel from the Saratoga Fairgrounds to discuss planning and

response for the Saratoga County Fair, which opened Tuesday, July 18th. Collaboration is essential in pre-paring for emergenices.

FEMA Life Jacket Safety Tips

Paramedic and EMT Exam Announcements

Saratoga County Department of Human Resources has posted Open-Competitive Examinations for Para-

medic and Emergency Medical Technician. Follow the link posted below for a copy of the announcements. http://www.saratogacountyny.gov/departments/person-nel/current-exams-and-job-postings/

Code Red Sign-Up

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Bonesteel Named Deputy Coordinator

Welcome Les Bonesteel, who was appointed Deputy Fire

Coordinator, Fire Car 2 back in March. Les has been an active member of the Burnt Hills Fire De-partment for more than 29 years, where he served as Chief and As-sistant Chief. Prior to being ap-pointed as Fire Car 2, Les, served the Office of Emergency Services as a Nationally Certified Senior Fire Investigator for more than

10-years. He is currently the Treasurer of the Capital District Fire Investigators Association and is a current Board member of the Saratoga County Fire Officers As-sociation.

FEMA Lightning Safety Tips

Fire Advisory Board meetings are open to Fire Chief’s from across the County. The next meeting is sched-

uled for 7pm on Monday, July 31st in the Office of Emergency Services. For a copy of the Meeting Min-utes, please visit the Fire Officer’s Association website: http://www.saratogacountyfire.org/

I-300 Training Announcement

The complexity of incident management, coupled with the growing need for multi-agency and multi-function-

al involvement on incidents, has increased the need for a single standard incident management system that can be utilized by all emergency response agencies. Use of the Incident Command System (ICS) by both public safety and private sector organizations continues to increase across the country. The ICS is designed to be used for all applica-tions, fires (wildland and structural), hazardous materials incidents, law enforcement operations, search and rescue operations, air, ground and water accidents, mass casualty incidents, natural disasters and planned events.

Designed for: Fire officers, law enforcement supervisory personnel, emergency medical officers and emergency management personnel.

Course Length: 24 hoursNovember 1, 2, 7, 8, 14, 15, 2017Location: TBD

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