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Continued Volunteer Training and More

We at Arkansas Valley Ambulance District pride ourselves on ensuring our volunteers receive continuous training opportunities to refresh skills and knowledge regularly. Many of the skills range from CPR/AED, airway management, stop the bleed, extrication from vehicles with local fire agencies, neonatal resuscitation, and much more! The selfless volunteers of AVAD work endlessly to provide the best care possible to our community.

Once a year in November the Emergency Medical Services Association of Colorado (EMSAC) offers a three day training to EMS personnel in Keystone, CO.  AVAD and Fremont County Emergency Management together help sponsor many of our EMTs to attend this excellent conference for continued education every year.

 

 

EMSAC Conferences

Medical personnel train on a child manikin, providing CPR and ventilation on a stretcher.
Neonatal Resuscitation training with the Children's Hospital of Colorado while attending EMSAC 2023.

 

A group of six smiling people outdoors, snowy mountains in the background.
From left to right: Mitch McCann, Lex Wayson, Trisha Litz, Alex Tonnesen, Teri Shaw, Doug Shaw. Attendees of the EMSAC conference 2024.

 

 

Extrication Training: June 2024

 

Emergency responders and firefighters assess a red overturned vehicle. An ambulance is on the scene.
Vehicle extrication training with AVAD, Howard Volunteer Fire Department, and Western Fremont Fire Protection District. June 2024.

 

Rescue team assists a person trapped in a car with a stick through the windshield.
Vehicle extrication training with AVAD, Howard Volunteer Fire Department, and Western Fremont Fire Protection District. EMS personnel training on injured patient care during the extrication process. June 2024.

 

A group of firefighters and emergency personnel posing in front of fire and rescue trucks, holding a car door.
All who attended vehicle extrication training with AVAD, Howard Volunteer Fire Department, and Western Fremont Fire Protection District. June 2024.

 

 

Assisting our local Volunteer Fire Departments

Did you know that when our local volunteer fire departments are called to manage a fire we are also dispatched? AVAD stays on scene for the duration of the call to support our fire fighters. We are always ready to provide aid if someone is injured including firefighters. Other duties involve helping them to swap our their tanks, ensuring they stay hydrated, grabbing additional equipment, and even sometimes to help with their water trucks.

A person in outdoor gear adjusts an MSA air tank, wearing gloves, on a snowy, grassy area with hoses nearby.
EMT helping to swap out a firefighter's tank.

 

Firefighters near a water tank with a hose filling a portable pool from a red truck in a wooded area.
EMT assisting HVFD with water tanker.