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UVM Rescue

UVM Rescue "Pride, Service and Committment" since 1973.     

(The following information was submitted by Alisa Leib on August 31, 1999)

• Service Description: UVM Rescue was established in 1973. It began with a small group of students who rode along with the campus police equipped with little more than basic first aid materials. Over the years UVM Rescue has evolved into a state certified, nationally recognized, ALS ambulance service completely staffed and operated by University of Vermont students. It is in operation 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
  
  Our primary responsibility is to provide emergency medical care to the University of Vermont, the city of South Burlington, and parts of Interstate 89 and 189. We also respond secondary into the city of Burlington, Shelburne, Winooski, and other surrounding communities as part
  of a mutual aid plan.
  
  UVM Rescue responds to over 1800 calls per year. The calls can range in severity from students that are too ill to walk to the Student Health Center, to life-threatening emergencies such as poisonings, multi-traumas, respiratory difficulties, and cardiac arrests.
  
  Our training program is highly respected and fairly intense.  After a member is accepted following an application and interview process, they must begin a training cirriculum that lasts several months. Part of this training which is unique to UVM Rescue is that we require that all members become dispatchers, as we are one of few self-dispatching ambulances. After becoming a dispatcher the new member will move on to becoming a "medic". This roll basically elaborates on some of the skills taught in the Vermont EMT cirriculum. Upon completion of the "medic's checklist" they are on the road with full UVM Rescue member status.
  
  UVM Rescue is a fully volunteer service seeking motivated and interested students who would like to take advantage of this unique opportunity. There are few college squads that can offer this kind of experience and call volume.  Students and community members can also get involved by taking the Emergency Care course at UVM that is taught by UVM Rescue members.
  

• To report an emergency dial 911.

• To contact UVM Rescue regarding non-emergency questions or to request information on membership call their non-emergency phone number at: (802) 656-4287

Contacts:  Jake Allegrini (Director of Operations), Alisa Leib (Public Relations)

• Internet address: http://www.uvm.edu/~rescue/

• General email address: rescue@zoo.uvm.edu

• Mailing address: (none available at this time)

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