Otter Tail County Wants You!
Grant Request to Save Lives
The City of Elizabeth Fire Department, in conjunction with Ringdahl ambulance services in Fergus Falls and Pelican Rapids, are requesting funding through an Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) project. We would like you to send a letter of support for the project.
If funded we will engage in additional meetings to develop, implement, and choose the requested equipment for the agencies and develop training schedules. The grant request is entirely funded through private donations, grants, and cash which will require $0.00 from your local fire department, city, police department or first responder agency to participate in the grant.
Contact: Gary Wilde or Randy Fischer for more information if needed.
Letters of support - City of Elizabeth Fire Department AFG REGIONAL project grant application - EMS cardiac arrest survival project.
This regional grant includes agencies in western Otter Tail County and a portion of Wilken County around the Rothsay area. It includes 14 EMS agencies in Fergus Falls, Elizabeth, Rothsay, Pelican Rapids, Vergas, Dent, Underwood, Battle Lake, and the Otter Tail County sheriff's department.
The project intends to increase cardiac arrest survival rates through improved equipment, training, and development of standard consistent approaches across multiple emergency services.
Equipping Fire, Police, sheriff, and ambulance EMS responders with cardiac monitors, AEDs, cardiac response kits, mechanical compression units, and specific EMS training and approaches that have been successful at increasing survival rates of out of hospital cardiac arrests from less than seven percent to over 20 percent. The direct impact could be an additional 2.1 lives annually saved by implementation of this project in our identified region.
PLEASE send a letter TODAY supporting our Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) REGIONAL grant request, mail to:
CLICK HERE for a sample letter that you can simply place on your letterhead and include your name and edit as you like. Sign and send ASAP.
Letters can also be written on your own and sent to the following address:
RE: Elizabeth, MN Fire Department REGIONAL GRANT for EMS cardiac arrest survival project
R. David Paulison, Administrator
FEMA
500 C Street, SW
Washington, DC 20472
Fax: (202) 786-9938