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attempts, turned the rescue operation over to HFD, which successfully <br />completed the operation. <br />• During an auto extrication call (date unknown,) the OCRS attempted to <br />remove a dead women from a car. After an hour of unsuccessful <br />attempts, the squad quit and left the scene. Another FD (either HFD or <br />New Hope FD) continued the operation and successfully extricated the <br />body. <br />• Drowning at Ashley Lakes Apartments — 2007: OCRS responded for a <br />dive response to the call, but could not provide service because they did <br />not bring the right equipment nor a boat. Chapel Hill was called, <br />responded and completed the operation. <br />• During an extrication event reported by their former members, OCRS <br />crews prematurely cut stabilizing lines dropping a tree limb on a car with <br />an EMS member and a patient inside. The car became momentarily <br />destabilized jeopardizing the safety of the EMS member and patient. <br />• Muriatic acid was poured in the equipment bay of Station 1 (Churton <br />Street) in front of the doorway leading into the crew quarters from the <br />outside public -entrance. It is unclear why the, caustic and poisonous <br />substance was placed in the threshold, but it caused a potential for <br />serious inhalation injury to the on -duty crew who was in the immediate <br />vicinity as well as the public who use this entrance regularly. <br />• Eno State Park: A senior OCRS member requested Rescue 1 be <br />dispatched with Hillsborough FD and first responders to a call at the <br />Occoneechee State Park. It is not an individual's prerogative to requests <br />specific units. That task is left to the communications center, which knows <br />unit and resource availability and manages the deployment and control of <br />them in order to maintain effective, safe resource allocation. During the <br />event, it is reported that the OCRS member switched his radio call sign <br />and frequencies between rescue squad and police department, thus <br />further complicating the situation and rendering the operation confusing <br />and unsafe. This event was one of several self- dispatch incidents <br />attributed to the OCRS and its members. <br />Other instances of self- dispatching by OCRS, creating hazards to the public <br />with the addition of unnecessary emergency vehicles on the roads, reducing <br />the efficiency of communicators and reducing limited resources are: <br />o May 30, 2007: Chest Pain to 261 S. Churton Street <br />o July 17, 2007: Body in a lake. <br />4 <br />