NEW COMMANDER

Delaware County EMS has a new commander for the VIPER Team. Maj. Jason Rogers
will now be the new Commander of the Delaware County EMS VIPER Team. Jason was
recently promoted to the rank of Major and in charge of all special operations at DCEMS.
Jason has also been named the new EMA Director for Delaware County replacing retiring
director William Gosnell. Bryan Weaver who has lead the VIPER team since its inception
8 years ago was promoted to the rank of Major and now in charge of daily operations at
Delaware County EMS.

Training Deployment cancelled

The deployment training for July 26 for the Brick Yard 400 has been canceled.
The command staff has made a decision to forgo this event due to all of our equipment not
being received as of this date. Rest assure that when all of our equipment (cots,tents, etc)
has been received we will be conducting an overnight training event.
Please stay tuned to this site for any updated information.

VIPER TEAM: This is a reminder about Decon training on Monday, July 20th 2009 at 10am. We will be working on non-ambulatory patient decon as well as work on emergency decon situations. I anticipate this training to be a "dry run" and plan to make next training a "hot run". Please bring your red and PPE bags for restock.

We plan to make measurements of the Zumro tent to accommodate an overhead non-ambulatory water supply system and would like suggestions based off this training. We built a portable shower for the ambulatory side of the Zumro tent which allows us to quickly run water inside the tent for quicker Decon of ambulatroy patients.

RED SHIFT: please try to attend this inservice as we are going to pass along a lot of information. Thank you

July Training

July 20th (RED SHIFT), Station 3, 10am: TRAINING

The agenda will be PPE, Non-Ambulatory Decon and re-supply of your gear. For those who are new to the team, non-ambulatory decon is the most taxing to the team for the amount of time and man-power it requires. EVERYONE needs this inservice and we will be revisiting it more frequently. Do NOT blow this off. Friday a small group of us went over some Decon basics, set-up the Zumro Tent and looked at building modular showers which are quick set-ups for Mass Decon corridor, both ambulatory and non-ambulatory. Those who are on duty at DCEMS may attend and on-duty Ball Hospital employees are automatically excused. If you cannot attend the training, please send a text or call someone on the Command Staff to let us know so we have a manageable head count. We are working on making a training schedule to give everyone adequate time to work around other commitments.

Viper Team:

Viper Team: Training tomorrow at 10a. Its going to be hot and possibly stormy out so feel free to wear shorts, tennis shoes and atleast a DCEMS t-shirt. We're looking to set up diffrent corridors but arent expecting to use any PPE. Bring your PPE bags/Red Bags--we will be doing restock and passing out boots for those who need them. Please expect to be there for 2-3 hours (we'll try to get you guys out on the sooner side)

Attendance reminder !!!

A reminder for all VIPER Team members. Please pay close attention to the 50% rule and requirement for attendance at meeting and or events of the team in the year 2009. The year is half over and a few of the members are close to or below the mark. If you are not able to make a meeting or training session please make sure you contact your team leader prior to the event.

The VIPER team will be participating with the MTF-6 team in a full scale training session at the Delaware County fairgrounds on June 30 at 6 p.m. Please make every effort to attend this training as a lot of hard work by training officer Benson and his crew have went into this. See you on the 30th

Appreciation

I would like to take this opportunity to give a special thanks to EDECON Team Leaders Larry Crouse and Kurt Mathews for all their hard work and dedication to leading this division of the VIPER Team. They are going above and beyond in their endeavors with the team. A huge thank you from Jason and I. Please keep up the excellent work.