The Emergency Medical Services Division provides advanced life support services 24 hours a day to the citizens of this community and to those people who are just passing through. This is accomplished by staffing three advanced life support ambulances around the clock with dual-trained Firefighter/Paramedics or Firefighter/Advanced EMTs.
The City of Carson City Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Division is solely responsible by ordinance for all emergency medical calls and ambulance inter-facility transfers received within the city limits. In addition, mutual aid agreements with surrounding counties extend the area of coverage in times of need. Access to EMS is facilitated by an enhanced 9-1-1 system which dispatches medical calls from a central public safety answering point operated by the Carson City Sheriff’s Department. The dispatch center is staffed with personnel who are also trained in emergency medical dispatching (EMD). A computerized dispatching system which includes the EMD module permits a rapid and accurate prioritization of calls and delivery of pre-arrival medical instructions to callers while the medical units are responding.
Carson City has an ambulance subscription program that eliminates out-of-pocket expenses for medically necessary ambulance transports. Any citizen (or eligible dependent) living within the response area of the Carson City Fire Department is eligible to join. For an annual membership fee of $75 per family and $50 per individual, you receive unlimited medically necessary ambulance trips with no out-of-pocket expense, regardless of the existence or the amount of medical insurance coverage you have. Membership is renewable on an annual basis. We currently have over 3,000 members. The program offers reciprocal agreements with Central Lyon County, Storey County, Douglas County, and North Lyon County, where our members are covered while in those counties and their members are covered in Carson City. We are working with other local governments and districts to expand the coverage for these reciprocal agreements.
The Emergency Management Division continuously reviews and revises the Carson City Emergency plan and Hazardous Materials Response Plan in accordance with SARA Title III. We are the formal liaison between the State Division of Emergency Management and Carson City. This division coordinates training sessions and disaster exercises for the purpose of readiness for the activation of an emergency operations center. Emergency Management Division personnel apply and manage grants to fund haz-mat operations and disaster preparedness.
More at carsonfire.org.
