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ORANGE COUNTY FIRE RESCUE STUDY <br />SOUTH OP:ANGE COUNTY <br />RESCUE SQUAD <br />1 various stages of training and will probably, through attrition, result in about 15 to <br />2 20 remaining more than a year with about 10 of those developing into full <br />3 contributors to the organization. The Squad has about 20 people trained in the <br />4 Technical Rescue division. About 12 are also skilled EMS personnel. <br />5 <br />6 The EMS division requires members to volunteer for twenty-four, twelve-hour duty <br />7 shifts. Members also volunteer considerable time for special events, such as UNC- <br />8 CH football games that require about 10 hours of coverage each. A basketball <br />9 game requires about 4 to 5 hours of coverage. <br />10 <br />11 Required EMS training includes monthly 3-hour training sessions repeated twice <br />12 each month. <br />13 <br />14 Technical Rescue personnel train one full Saturday each month. They are expected <br />15 to attend four 3-day classes each year in the various rescue disciplines: SWRT- I, <br />16 SWRT-ADV, Ropes, Confined Space, SCSA, etc., and meet annual recertification <br />17 requirements. <br />18 <br />19 The map below provides an illustration of the location of the Department's <br />20 members. This distribution is helpful in understanding the staffing. Current <br />21 members reside in a five county area. <br />22 <br />23 <br />81 <br />