EMS Services

Emergency Medical Services

Wayland has 2 Basic Life Support ambulances that provide Emergency Medical Services. Both ambulances are equipped with a Automated External Defibrillator (AED), as well as all of the other state of the art equipment needed for quality medical services. Wayland FD's ambulances have a Primary Response Area that covers the Village and Towns of Wayland, as well as Perkinsville and most of the Town of South Dansville.

The Wayland Fire Department and Ambulance Corps currently has 18 Emergency Medical Technicians, 2 Certified First Responders, and 14 other members that actively run on ambulance calls as drivers. Under New York State law, any time that our Certified  Ambulances goes on a call, we must have an EMT with the patient.

How is EMS Dispatched?

A-14.jpgEMS dispatching is handled a little differently than fire dispatching. Our ambulances are dispatched by the Steouben County 911 using a standardized Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) protocol. The dispatchers tone out the Fire Department and provide the EMD code for the call. This code tells our crews the priority of the call and whether we are authorized to utilize lights and sirens to respond. By using EMD codes, the Wayland Fire Department and Ambulance Corps is working with Steuben County 911 to minimize high-risk Lights and Sirens responses when is is likely not a critical call.

 Here is our response matrix:

ECHO – CRITICAL - Lights & Sirens Response - ALS also dispatched

Delta
Charlie                 Lights & Sirens Response - ALS dispatched for Delta and Charlie
Bravo

Alpha                   Green Response
Omega

For example, a cardiac arrest would be classified as an Echo call while a broken wrist may be classified as either an Alpha or Bravo call depending on other information the 911 calltaker has been able to determine.

Supervision

The Ambulance Department is headed up by an EMS Captain, who reports directly to the Chief of the Department. Under the Captain are two Lieutenants who ensure that Training is properly handled and all equipment and supplies are ready to go.

All ambulance call run reports are reviewed by the EMS Captain monthly and the Wayland Fire Department and Ambulance Corps participates in the regional Quality Assurance program supervised by our regional medical council, STREMS, and the New York State Department of Health.

Training

  
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Wayland FD provides ongoing training to all EMS personnel. All members of the department (Fire Supression and EMS) receive yearly CPR recertification as well as CPR and defibrialltor usage review every 6 months. All EMS certified personnel also attend at least 6 EMS drills per year on a variety of subjects. Additionally, for any fire or rescue drill where apparatus is in use (ice water rescue, extrication, rope rescue, ladder training, etc) our ambulance is involved. We believe that keeping our ambulance involved in rescue training is imperative to ensure safe and proper field operations.

Additionally, any member of the Wayland FD can take the NYS EMT class. The department sponsors members to take the class and encourages any member who may be interested in EMS operations to do ride alongs on the ambulance and consider taking the EMT class.