Rapid Responders

The Tyler mountain Volunteer fire department has a small group of trained EMS workers who respond with the Paramedics on medical calls.

They generally respond when the Paramedics that are stationed in the Tyler Mt/Cross Lanes area out of area or on another call.

1st out bag's that are issued out

to team member's and on all

Fire Apparatus.

These members are equipped with what we call a 1st out bag and Oxygen, and are dispatched the same way as the firefighters are.

Tyler Mt is the only fire department in Kanawha County that does not require it's EMS members

to be cross trained as firefighters. However the majority of the team are firefighters as well.

There are three levels of training that will let rapid responders run calls.

1st Responder = 80 hour program developed by U.S. Department of Transportation and currently adopted by West Virginia Bureau of Health and Human Resources Office of Emergency Medical Services as the minimum training to responds to emergency medical call through area fire departments.
EMT- B = 120 hour program developed by U.S. Department of Transportation and currently adopted by West Virginia Bureau of Health and Human Resources Office of Emergency Medical Services as the minimum training required to function on a ambulance.
EMT- P = A two year collage course that allows the EMT-B to further his/her training in EMS that goes deeper in to emergency medical treatment that includes drug and IV therapy. (at this time members who are EMT-P's are not allowed to function as such do to the discursions of the medical director at KCEAA who all of these service fall under his direction.)

Rapid Responders