Annual report of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire

The Seven members of the regional haz-mat team from our department, headed
by Captain Guy Larivee, logged a total of 336 hours of training in the first year
of operation. Each member is required to complete 48 hours of refresher
training every year.
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES :
We have had a busy year in the EMS Division of the department. Our
ambulance responses were 1396, an increase of 9.14 percent over the previous
years.
four years.
We have been seeing a steady increase in medical aid calls over the last
Our Advanced Life Support (ALS) calls
time frame.
increased dramatically over the same
Firefighter/EMT Michael Brillard has completed his paramedic training with the
Optima Health-Elliot Paramedic Education Program. During the educational
process, Mike completed both clinical and field rotations, which consisted of
468 hours and over 700 hours of classroom studies.
In September of this year Firefighter/EMT' s, Justin Cutting and Michael
McMahon have begun their Paramedic training at Portsmouth Regional
Hospital. They will continue their studies throughout the year 1999, and will
graduate from the program in the fall.
The department is
staffed with fourteen EMT Basic, eleven EMT Intermediates,
and eight Paramedics, with the goal of having a paramedic stationed at both the
Town and Beach Stations.
Medical training hours totaled over 2400 hours of Basic and 816 hours of
Advanced Life support, some of which were taken outside of the department.
All of our Emergency Medical Technicians must recertify with the National
Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, a national certifying organization,
every two years.
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