Clarendon County Fire Rescue

1 week ago

As EMS Week winds down, Clarendon County Fire Rescue will continue to educate our members and our community. WE CARE. FOR EVERYONE.

Here are some things we did this week!

Monday – Education Day: This day seeks to highlight community educational programs and continuing education for EMS professionals. Our members spent the morning educating the children at Walker Gamble about the various jobs that our department does. During this event, our medic unit was called for service and was unable to return. We missed them, but were still able to educate! Our members also attended monthly in-service training which is required of all of our medical staff. The topic this month was abdominal pain.

Tuesday – EMS Safety Day: This day seeks to highlight stress reduction, self-care, and mental health awareness programs. Other options for programs include improved situational awareness, driving and roadway safety, vehicle and device maintenance, proper lifting techniques, or violence awareness. We spent the morning at Rose Wilder for career day, educating the staff and children about what to do when they are in a vehicle and hear sirens behind them. ALL TOGETHER! MOVE TO THE RIGHT OF THE ROADWAY! Or as the children say, "move out the way"!

Wednesday – EMS for Children Day: This day highlights the distinctive physiological and psychological aspects of caring for children and serves as an opportunity to raise awareness about improving specialized care for children in pre-hospital and acute care settings. We spent day Tuesday with children at Rose Wilder Elementary School, where we talked to the children about what we do as a service and how we are here to help them.

Thursday – Save-A-Life Day: This day promotes programs that tell the community it doesn’t matter how quickly EMS professionals get to a scene—bystanders will almost always be there first. Save-A-Life Day empowers the general public to learn and apply steps that can be taken to help save a life. Clarendon County Fire Rescue has held multiple CPR classes in the community, even a couple of Hands Only CPR. We have also met with a few of our senior centers and encouraged them to be proactive by calling for help immediately if they feel that one of their friends are not acting normal.

We appreciate all of our staff for the part that you all play in this community! We could not do this without you! … See MoreSee Less

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Clarendon County Fire Rescue

2 weeks ago

The Pee Dee Firefighters’ Association held their annual quarterly meeting in Clarendon County on Tuesday, May 13th, in Wyboo at Station 4.
Thank you for allowing Clarendon County Fire Rescue to host your meeting. … See MoreSee Less

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