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Black Jack FPD Hosting Training Class For Area Emergency Response Agencies
The Black Jack Fire Protection District will host a training class for all emergency response agencies in the northern part of St. Louis County on Wednesday, March 18 at 1 p.m. . Fire Departments, Police Agencies, Emergency Medical Services, and even Towing and Salvage Operators have been invited to attend.
The purpose of the class is threefold. First, to increase the safety factor for those responders working in and alongside local roadways and highways. Second, to create a regional Standard Operating Guideline in which all agencies regardless of type of service or community they serve can work within using the same procedures and terminology. Third, to bring all agencies up to date on the latest revisions and additions to the new federal law that effects how emergency responders work on or within the limits of a federally funded roadway.
Communication, Cooperation, and Coordination will be the general theme of the training class, and with input from all agencies in attendance, the goal is to create a new standard operating guideline that increases scene safety and awareness so that none of the responders in the North County area ever suffer injury or death while doing their duty on the roadways and highways.
Every year in the United States, over 100 Police Officers, Firefighters and Paramedics are struck and killed while working to save others on the scene of a motor vehicle accident.
