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What to Do If You Are Sick – Make the Right Call

 November 14, 2020

If you have a fever, cough or other symptoms, you might have COVID-19. Most people have mild illness and are able to recover at home. If you think you may have been exposed to COVID-19, keep track of your symptoms and contact your healthcare provider (primary care physician, etc.). 

Steps to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 if you are sick…

If you are sick with COVID-19 or think you might have COVID-19, follow the steps below to care for yourself and to help protect other people in your home and community.

Stay home except to get medical care..

  • Stay home. Most people with COVID-19 have mild illness and can recover at home without medical care. Do not leave your home, except to get medical care. Do not visit public areas.
  • Take care of yourself. Get rest and stay hydrated. Take over-the-counter medicines, such as acetaminophen, to help you feel better.
  • Stay in touch with your doctor. Call before you get medical care.
  • Avoid public transportation, ride-sharing, or taxis.

When to seek emergency medical attention..

Look for emergency warning signs for COVID-19. If someone is showing any of these signs, seek emergency medical care immediately:

  • Trouble breathing
  • Persistent pain or pressure in the chest
  • New confusion
  • Inability to wake or stay awake
  • Bluish lips or face

This list is not all possible symptoms. Please call your medical provider for any other symptoms that are severe or concerning to you.

If You Call 911 : Notify the 911 call taker that you are seeking care for someone who has or may have COVID-19.

EMS providers will be protecting themselves as well as our patients when responding to calls during the pandemic. Our personnel will be utilizing various levels of personal protective equipment, limiting the number of crew members entering a room, building and/or interacting with patients, and performing additional patient assessments on scene to determine the best course of treatment and care for each patient that we encounter. This may include determining if the patient’s primary care or other physician has previously been contacted concerning the patient’s current symptoms.

If transported to a hospital, Covid 19 positive patients will likely experience a delay in entering the hospital due to protocols in place which require these patients to be delivered by our crews directly to an Emergency Department (E.D.) or other room rather than waiting in the E.D. corridor for a room assignment. Our EMS crews have been experiencing delays at the E.D. of up to 30 minutes during this process. In addition, due to area hospitals experiencing high patient volumes, it is possible that you may not be transported to the nearest hospital at any given time.

Transport to a hospital by EMS alone DOES NOT determine how quickly a patient is seen in the E.D.!!!

During the recent uptick in Covid 19 cases, along with seasonal health issues, area hospitals have been placed on various levels of alerts which determine which hospitals our ambulances can transport patients to at times. In the week beginning Monday November 9, 2020 through today Saturday November 14, 2020 area hospitals have recorded the following alert periods which determine the destination hospital we must select.

Hospital                                                Yellow Alert                                     Red Alert                                Re-Route

                                                E.D. Temporarily overloaded      No E.C.G. monitored beds     Ambulance(s) unable to unload
                                                                                                                                                                                       
Upper Chesapeake Medical Center        113.85 hrs                                     124.29 hrs                                8 times for 15.25 hrs
Harford Memorial Hospital                             55.42 hrs                                      67.28 hrs                                 4 times for 10.29 hrs
Franklin Square Hospital                                   59.07 hrs                                         6.31 hrs                                 3 times for 3.49 hrs
St. Joseph’s Hospital                                            49.04 hrs                                     54.90 hrs                                  1 time for   2.95 hrs
GBMC                                                                         50.98 hrs                                        4.77 hrs                                  Mini Disaster 10.55 hrs,
                                                                                                                                                                                                               No re-route periods
For more on the alert definitions click here…    https://www.miemssalert.com/chats/Default.aspx?hdRegion=3
If someone is showing any symptoms as listed above for EMERGENCY CARE , seek emergency medical care immediately by calling 911! The responding EMS personnel will assess the patient, confer with the patient’s medical provider if appropriate, and always determine the proper course of treatment and care for each patient.

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Office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal is seeking the public’s assistance in Saturday’s fire at the former Grove Plumbing on Baltimore Pike, Bel Air. If you were in the area and saw something please contact their arson line. You may have saw something you took as not significant but that information could lead to the break in their investigation.

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Office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal is seeking the public’s assistance in Saturday’s fire at the former Grove Plumbing on Baltimore Pike, Bel Air. If you were in the area and saw something please contact their arson line. You may have saw something you took as not significant but that information could lead to the break in their investigation.
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Truck 13 and DCH 13 assisted Jarrettsville VFC on an early morning dwelling fire on Troyer Rd. No occupants were reported in the dwelling at the time and FD personnel arrived with a fully involved structure.

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Monthly Calls

2022Fire & Fire/EMSEMS
Jan71214
Feb49168
Mar53150
Apr48166
May61220
Jun58176
Jul98197
Aug49173
Sep55200
Oct69207
Nov73165
Dec75214
2022 Total7592250

Fire Top Ten Responder

December 2022
Year End
Name
Calls
*Deputy Chief Dan McKinney305
*Asst. Chief Kris Teal186
*Asst. Chief Bob Colaianni145
Sgt. Alex Hilber137
Tom Pritchard131
Capt. Gary Zamerski129
Sgt. Zach Karn
120
Matt Barlow

118
Will Friend113
Parker Cochran108
*Chief Scott Blankenship
106
Coy Bushman103
Lt. Matt Garrity100
Angelou Karoupis88
* - Note: Chief Officers

EMS Top Ten Responder

December 2022
Year End
Name
Calls
Ryan Blosser164
Darrin Ryan137
Lacey Maheux
136
*EMS Asst. Chief Will Rosenberg124
Autumn Pafel90
EMS Capt. Ed Steininger78
EMS Lt. Erick Mitchell73
EMS Lt. Isabelle Staab72
Shelby Sahady64
Lori Etchison49
EMS Sgt. Cailey Etchison38
* Note: Chief Officer

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Fallston Fire Company
P.O. Box 141
Fallston, MD 21047

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