North Salem 04.16.20

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Vol. 6 No. 3 Visit TapIntoNorthSalem.net for the latest news. Thursday, April 16, 2020
Firefighters spread
cheer this weekend ‘Pride in serving’
with birthday parades
for kids who are unable Ambulance corps volunteers facing
to have parties due to new challenges with coronavirus
coronavirus.

BY KATHERINE BORCHERT es for ambulance calls for their own
STAFF WRITER
safety and after the call and trans-

port are completed, sterilizing the

Since the outbreak of the novel ambulance is a four-hour process.

coronavirus in the United States, Somers Fire Chief Paul Joc-

volunteers for local ambulance kimo said that members of the

corps have had to change nearly re department and EMT have

everything about their work, also had to institute changes, in-

PHOTO: TABITHA PEARSON MARSHALL from protecting themselves and cluding the way they physically

Firefighters brighten up birthdays with modifying their vehicles to inter- approach people.
‘sirenade’ of flashing lights, blaring horns
acting with patients in an e ort “ ese days to be on the safe

to be able to continue answering side we’re treating everyone as if

residents’ calls for help. they were COVID positive,”Joc-

Capt. Rick Davin of the Yor- kimo said. “We’re donning PPE;

ktown Volunteer Ambulance it’s certainly a safety measure that

BY TOM BARTLEY “Hopefully,this will be one bright While the rootin’-tootin’parades Corps said that in addition to is not unusual these days. We’re
CONTRIBUTING WRITER spot for an otherwise strange time are meant to cheer party-deprived
in life,” Croton Falls Fire Chief youngsters, nobody’s strictly scru- members donning personal doing what we can with the in-
In these extraordinary times, Sean Partenio said last weekend tinizing ages. As Partenio puts it,
across a land gone housebound, as North Salem sheltered in place “If you happen to be slightly older protective equipment, or PPE, formation we have.”
and he readied his members’“house than a middle-school kid, I don’t
re ghters in shiny red rigs are cel- calls”at 16 local addresses. think we’re going to say no.” departments are changing their Dan Murtha, captain of the
ebrating birthdays of the young—
and sometimes not so young— Already, the chief has requests for Goldens Bridge re ghters, for approach to answering calls. Lewisboro Volunteer Ambulance
with socially distant, appropriately some three-dozen visits in April, for their part, take it further still, spe-
noisy drive-by caravans. now at least the de ning time period ci cally including older residents in “One of the di culties we have Corps, said members of his depart-
for seeking a drive-by salute. “Some their rollicking celebrations.
Coronavirus concerns have put of the birthdays were way at the end is when we transport a suspected ment are coping the best they can.
traditional celebrations, featuring of the month,” Partenio said, “so we “Our elderly population—the
plenty of friends and extended fami- just separated them.” at averted most vulnerable to COVID-19— COVID patient in our ambulance, “We were aggressive in ob-
ly members,temporarily on hold.So, an overly long stretch of parade duty has been isolated for weeks,” Fire
with ashing lights and wailing si- for his volunteers. “And those kids Chief James McManus noted. we essentially have a contaminated taining extra personal protective
rens worthy of an old-fashioned re- will get a shout-out closer to their “We want them to know they are
man’s parade, local departments are actual birthday, rather than a couple not forgotten as this government ambulance afterward,” Davin said. equipment while still in the early
toasting those denied their due by of weeks prior,”he said.
restrictions on group get-togethers. SEE SIRENADE PAGE 3 “We don’t bring any patients out stages of the outbreak of COV-

of their home unless they have a ID-19,” Murtha said. “We have

mask on, and we usually do a front made some changes to our re-

door-type interview process before sponse protocols to try and limit

going in and making sure some- the number of providers exposed”

one puts a mask on that person.” to the virus on any given call.

He added that under the new Maria Hlushko, captain of

state protocol, police and re per- SEE AMBULANCE PAGE 3
sonnel are no longer entering hous-

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