How the medical team on the Garnet Fire supports firefighters

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- As firefighters proceed to instrumentality connected the Garnet Fire burning successful the Fresno County mountains, determination is simply a squad of radical dedicated to protecting the crews connected the beforehand lines.

"The aesculapian portion truly does supply a multi-faceted attack to medicine connected the fire," said Pamela Martinez, who is assigned to the Medical Unit connected the Garnet Fire. "Prevention being 1 and attraction and effect being another."

Martinez said the portion manages resources and positions aesculapian teams strategically with firefighters to respond rapidly to emergencies.

"Right present we person astir 35 to astir 40 enactment EMTs and paramedics retired successful the field," Martinez said. "We effort to astatine slightest person a brace of enactment paramedics and EMTs successful each division. Where they are doing further work, hiking successful with hotshot crews, we effort to adhd further resources."

At basal camp, aesculapian enactment trailers relation similar mobile urgent attraction clinics, wherever firefighters tin get medication, archetypal assistance supplies and treatment.

Chad McCall with Mountain Medics, based successful Siskiyou County, helps oversee 1 of the mobile units.

"We connection a assortment of antithetic supplies, ranging from moleskin for blisters to ft pulverization and ibuprofen," McCall said. "We tin adjacent spell each the mode up to precocious beingness enactment attraction successful lawsuit determination is simply a aesculapian exigency not conscionable present successful camp, but besides retired connected the occurrence line."

Air enactment teams besides play a role, utilizing high-tech tools to scope firefighters whenever and wherever they request help.

But not lone are they successful the air, they are besides watching the air.

Molly West, an Air Resource Advisor connected the Garnet Fire, monitors wide aerial quality.

"One of the ways we straight enactment the med portion is that we supply a truly precocious diagnostic device, it's called a RAD 57," said West.

While members of the incidental bid squad travel from agencies crossed the authorities and country, their ngo is the same: enactment retired the fire, but besides support the wellness and well-being of the firefighters.

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