Yes, Ohio has 2 burn bans during each year. This law prohibits outdoor open burning statewide in unincorporated areas during the months of March, April, May, October, and November between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. – Read more details here
If you have a medical or fire-related emergency, we will respond emergently with lights/sirens. We are only able to respond non-emergently for things like smoke alarm installations, safety inspections, or educational visits.
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The Northern Ohio Trauma System (NOTS) adult trauma field triage criteria guide Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in determining whether a critically injured adult patient should be transported by ground or air to an appropriate trauma center. The key factors include:
- Destination: Does the patient require Level I Trauma Center services, or can a local hospital manage the injury?
- Mechanism of Injury/Trauma Criteria: Severity and type of injury, assessed using physiologic (e.g., vital signs, Glasgow Coma Scale), anatomic (e.g., specific injuries), and mechanism-of-injury criteria (e.g., high-energy impact), as outlined in guidelines like the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Field Triage Guidelines.
- Weather Conditions: Determines if air transport (helicopter) is feasible.
- Mechanism of injury: motorcycle crash, fall victim, loss of consciousness etc
- Nature of illness: e.g., stroke, heart attack, seizures etc
- EMS protocols: our EMS providers follow our local medical control protocols when determining appropriate transport destinations