Butte Critical Incident Stress Management Team

 

Serving Police • Fire • EMS Personnel

STRESS PRESS Newsletter

Volume 7, Issue 05 ~~~~ May, 2004

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Next Meeting Date:
July 09, 2004
Call-up Person: Mike Batz, May 15 to 31
Jennifer Gonzales, June
Linda Dye, July

It will be your responsibility to hand off the Call-up Box the first of the month to the next person listed.

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Editor's Notes:

     This month's meeting was the first of two educational toy shows. Ed Stopper from BCS&R showed off equipment and gave us some insight on Search & Rescue's operation and training. Loren brought a ladder truck along with an engine from Chico Fire, while BCFD arrived with Rescue 42 and WT 42. Everyone had the opportunity to learn more about the fire side of our team with some of it's terminology. The next meeting is LE's turn.
     A report on the after affects of the 9/11 incident has shown a major increase in retirements on the fire side, where LE is handling it better with it's CISM activity.
     As you all have noticed over th past couple of months I have not sent out a hard copy of The Stress Press. I have been keeping up the online newsletter. I slowed down after my accident on 2/7/04 in the line-of-duty. Recovery is quite interesting.
     Enclosed is a self addressed, stamped post card with a few questions to respond to. Please send them back. It will help me be a better secretary for our Team.
     We will be transitioning to a new Hot Line number by the first of June. A notice will follow.
     Scotty has been sent to TGU for the summer as an LT Captain. He left on May 15th and handed the call-up box over to Mike Batz. (ECC & CPD dispatch have been notified.) He expects to be back in Butte after Fire Season. He is available for call-ups when he is in town.
     Congratulations Scotty.
     Enjoy health and happiness.
       Gene

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Special Notice!

     Meetings will be bi-monthly on the odd months beginning in July.
July 09, 2004
Sept 10, 2004
Nov 05, 2004

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HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE

HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE

     If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people you can bet that we'll save at least one life. Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw.
     You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home; unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far.WHAT CAN YOU DO?


     You've been trained in CPR but the guy that taught the course neglected to tell you how to perform it on yourself. Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed to be in order Without help, the person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
     However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.
     A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest, and a cough must be repeated about every 2 seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.
     Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives!
    From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via - Chapter 240s newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart response)

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CISD Question Card - online

Would you like to receive The Stress Press and meeting announcements;
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  Or both? [ ]
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  Yes [ ] Name_____________________________________________
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Any suggestions? ______________________________________________________________
(Just copy and paste into an email)
Thanks for filling this out and E-mailing it back to me. Gene

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ICISF Training Calander

** ICISF Conferences 2004 **
*West Coast*
Bakersfield, August 05-08
Las Vegas NV, October 21-24
*Other Areas*
Syracuse NY, May 20-23
Biloxi MS, June 03-06
Oklahoma City OK, June 24-27
Columbia MD, July 13-18
Denver CO, August 19-22
2004 International CISM Coordinators' Conference: Sacramento, Oct 22-23

For a complete list of ICISF trainings and to register online, go to their web site. ICISF, Inc. www.icisf.org or call 410-750-9600 or 750-9601 fax.

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~~BCISM Book~~
~~Lending-Library~~

     Our library consists of books and videos. They can be accessed each month at our meeting. Please return items by the second meeting after you borrow them.

~~BCISM/ICISF~~
~~Article List~~

     We have a variety of articles available. Some can be downloaded direct from our website and some are linked to the ICISF website.
     If you have articles to share with others, drop them off at the meeting or e-mail them to gene@aleprechaun.com so they can be posted.

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T-Shirts

Do you still need to order a t-shirt? Order yours at this month's meeting or contact Linda at 895.4912 or TUDYE4@aol.com.
They cost only $14.00. That's a deal for a quality shirt.

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Reminder!

Changes have been made to the phone list and can be downloaded from the web site at www.ears.net/bcism in the secured section. The logon name is bcism. For the password, give me a call or ask me at the next meeting. Gene


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