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27 <br /> SOUTH ORANGE, NGE RESCUE SQUAD <br /> '' Semper Aptus Muneris - Volunteers Since 1971 <br /> Date: January 19,2010 <br /> To: Col.Frank Montes de Oca,Director, Orange County Emergency Services;Valerie Foushee, <br /> Chair, Orange County Board of Commissioners;Bernadette Pelissier,Vice-Chair;Alice Gordon; <br /> Pam Hemminger;Barry Jacobs;Mike Nelson; Steve Yuhasz. <br /> Greetings: <br /> By this letter,The South Orange Rescue Squad formally applies for an operational franchise to <br /> provide ambulance and rescue services to the citizen's of Orange County through the Orange <br /> County Department of Emergency Services and the Orange County Board of Commissioners. <br /> Specifically, South Orange Rescue Squad is applying for a franchise to provide: <br /> Technical Rescue Response [High Angle rescue, Swiftwater rescue, Confined Space <br /> Rescue] <br /> Special Event EMS and Ambulance Service <br /> Regularly-Scheduled EMS and Ambulance Service <br /> "Surge"EMS/Ambulance Service <br /> These services will be dispatched through Orange County 911 Communications and will be <br /> integrated into and will augment and support emergency services provided by Orange County <br /> Emergency Services [OCES]to help meet county-wide response needs. <br /> The South Orange Rescue Squad [SOBS]has been providing all-volunteer emergency EMS and <br /> rescue services to the citizens of Orange County since 1971. <br /> Until June 2009, SORS had provided regularly scheduled,3-day, 12 hour per day EMS and <br /> Ambulance service to The University of North Carolina and the surrounding Chapel Hill, <br /> Cairboro,and southern Orange County area to augment the Orange County EMS System. <br /> SORS currently provides"Surge"EMS and Ambulance service to OCES during times of <br /> overload to the County's resources. <br /> SORS currently provides EMS and Ambulance service for fire or other large incident"Rehab <br /> and Support"whenever requested by OCES or any fire department or law enforcement agency <br /> within Orange County. <br /> PO Box 128, Carrboro, NC 27510-0128 1 919.967. 1515 1 www.soresecue.org <br />