first responders 2015

A Tribute to the Emergency Volunteerswho serve the Tri-County Area

FIRSTRESPONDERS

September 2015

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Pershing County Sheriff’s OfficeSearch and Rescue

Front Row, Left to Right: Susan Sparke, Linda Whyte,

Bobbie Mancebo, Jean Daugherty, Janice Knight, Freddie Griffith.

Back Row, Left to Right: Joe Crim, Starlin Gentry,

Jerry Whyte Sr., James Griffith,Jerry Whyte Jr., Charles Sparke

The 2015Salute to First Responders

is a production ofWinnemucca Publishing1022 S. Grass Valley RoadWinnemucca, NV 89445

(775) 623-5011

General Manager:Holly Rudy-James

Special Projects Director:Brittany Shober

Retail Advertising Sales:Rhonda Coleman

Lora Mattingly-EngetMildred Ferrero

Shyla Haberle

Advertising Design:Joe PlummerTerrie Chism

Brittany Shober

Featuring stories & photos by:Tony ErquiagaSamantha Stine

Did we miss your crew? Participate in next year’sSalute to First Responders by contacting

Brittany Shober(775) 623-5011 ext. 218

[email protected] Dendary (left) and Walt Vetter of the Winnemucca Volunteer Fire Dept. assist fellow firefighters after coming out of a building used for a training. PHOTO BY TONY ERQUIAGA

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�ank you foranswering the call.

Paradise Valley FD has 22 members, while Paradise Hills FD has only four members. The crews help each other whenever possible.

BACK ROWMark Arroyo, Bob Buckingham PVFD Asst. Chief, Pete Ferraro, Dennis Deputy, Kevin Pasquale, Tim Chabot, Davey Kern, Dave Buckingham, Pete Marvel, John Bell.

FRONT ROWDenny Powers, Andy Mathews, Rolfe Schwartz, Jason Deputy District Chief, Ben Steward, Dave Kern. The young girl is Dave Buckingham’s daughter.

Unable to make the picture from PVFD: Andy Peterson, Jessy Martinez, Ty Bell, Tom Cassinelli, Daniel Ferraro, Tom Casinos.

Unable to make the picture from PHFD: Stan Thompson PHFD Chief, Tom Yates, Alex Potts, Ken Torrence

Paradise Valley/Paradise HillsVolunteer Fire Departments


PICTURED

Back Row Left to Right:Rick Gobel, Mike Young,

Tyler Peterson, Andy Peterson, Delicia Priest

Front Row Left to Right:Becky Wiley, Glen Wiley (President), Kerry Tuckett, Meshell Young, Tina

Morris, Sheriff Ron Unger

NOT PICTUREDDebbie Hummel, Doug Mills, Dale

Updike, Snuffy, Chris Natoli, Chancy Campbell, David Vierra, Jessica Vierra, Bill Francom, Jason Jury

Lander County Sheriff’s OfficeSearch and Rescue


Lovelock Volunteer Fire Dept.

Explore the History of the Real West.

775.623.2912 www.humboldtmuseum.org 175 Museum Lane

Thank you for all that you do for this community. Thank

you!for your dedicated efforts.

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405 W Fourth Street | Winnemucca, NV 89445 | T: (775) 623-3931 | F: (775) 623-3989www.humboldtprinters.net • [email protected]

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Thank you for your service to our community.

47 West 1st Street, Winnemucca | 775.623.2986

Chief Dave Ayoob, Debbie Mock, Rodney Wilcox, EMS Coordinator Dan Murphy, Phillip Yancy, Lt. Pat Irwin, Jordan Greathouse, Jim Weeldryer, CJ Safford, 2nd Assistant Chief Marco Ortega, Trina Allen, Bill Gorsline, and Rich Wagner


THANK YOUfirst responders

SOLID GOLD HOMES,LLC3319 Potato Road Winnemucca, Nevada 89445

(775) 623-4600 [email protected]

Thank you for being ready.

Humboldt County Sheriff’s OfficeSearch and Rescue

LEFT TO RIGHTCliff NicholsKen LutzowKevin Smith

Maria MoranCindy Pardick (brown vest)

Jack PardickBill Davis (next to sign)

Eileen Bailey (sitting)Debbie Gordo

Terry EldredgeSteve Kontny (brown hat &

mustache)Anton Castillo

Barry Heigher (end)


There is no place they

can’t get to.

Thank youFirst

Responders!

New • Used • Service Department • Full Body Shop

3305 Potato Road • Winnemucca, NV775.623.5001

WinnemuccaVolunteer Fire Dept.The City of Winnemucca Volunteer Fire Department is (left to right):

BACK ROW - Lt. Lee Bosch, Bob Rice, Capt. Hal Phillips;

CENTER ROW - Lt. Joe Dendary, Lt. Doug Cain, Greg Alberson, Jonathan Cipra, Andrew Hilyer, David Stoker, Don Stoker, Kent Howard, Cory Chase, George Miller;

FRONT ROW - Jeff Brumm, Carl Rose, Asst. Chief Walt Vetter, Chief Alan Olson, Capt. Cam Drake, Gary Stoker and Ray Parks

NOT PICTURED: Eric Beringer, Chad Farstveet, Steve Hemp, John Simmons, Dustin Christean and Chris Forgnone


THANK YOU FIRST RESPONDERS

Whether you’re on duty or on call,we appreciate you being on the way.

T U R Q U O I S E R I D G E

Newmont Twin Creeks Mine Rescue

Back row, left to right:Travis Petersen, Michael Canchola, Kyle

Anderson, Kristy Cornejo, David Reynoso

Front row, left to right:Roberto Mercado, Misty Fetterly, Benny

Martinez, Juan Gonzalez, Bill Swindle


T here are some calls that never ever leave your head, according

to Dispatch Supervisor Sheri McDaniel.

“A kid called me, his parents had just died, he was living with his grandma and his little brother. His little brother was looking up to him so much and he didn’t feel he could carry that burden so he called me as he was going to jump off a bridge. I was trying to talk him out of it, it was the middle of the night trying to get officers to him. He went over and looked over the edge of the bridge and the hurt in his voice when he real-ized that if he jumped off the bridge, it wasn’t going kill him, I’ll never forget that voice,” said McDaniel.

Dispatchers are essentially the first responders on any scene — even if just through the tele-phone.

It’s their duty to determine the nature of the calls they receive, their location and what type of emergency services are needed. McDaniel said their main concern is public safety and officer safety. As dispatchers, they try to get the caller help as fast as possilble. They also stay online with the caller and give instructions on how to deal with the situation until the responders arrive.

“We try to give them the best care and com-fort until the responders get there,” said McDan-iel, but with the size of the county, sometimes it takes awhile.

McDaniel explained it can be difficult because they are required to ask a lot of questions to assess the type of scene. “They call in on their absolute worst days,” said McDaniel. “We don’t

get a lot of people just calling in because they are having a great day.” And because they are calling on possibly their worst days, they don’t understand all of the questions, and especially don’t want to answer them. “A lot of people call in and think that we aren’t friendly,” said McDaniel.

Dispatchers have to ask all of the questions, explained McDaniel, because they have to make sure the scene is safe for the officers as well as the caller.

“We have to ask questions to guide them where to go for safety or how to make the scene safe before the officers or EMS responds there,” said McDaniel. “Our main concern is that the officers go home every night and the public is safe.”

At times, dispatchers sacrifice just as much as the officers if not more, McDaniel said, adding that during emergencies, dispatchers are often stuck in the dispatch center. During the recent mercury spill at the junior high school, McDaniel was with a trainee and stuck in the dispatch cen-ter for six hours.

“I couldn’t get up to go to the bathroom,” she said.

Like the mercury spill, McDaniel explained that a lot of the time there isn’t even time for

the dispatchers to take a break — depending on the situation.

“We give up our holidays, we give up our birthdays, our kids’ birthdays and everything to make sure the county is safe,” she said.

“The job is stressful; it’s wonderful; you get the most horrible calls; you get the most won-derful calls; it’s just a mixture of everything,” said McDaniel. “You can take the most horrible call that you can imagine and have to deal with it and five seconds later you have a call that’s even worse than the last one.”

It can be a difficult profession and takes a strong person to perform daily tasks, she said.

“A lot of officers and deputies tell you they couldn’t be a dispatcher,” she said.

A lot of the stress, explained McDaniel, is because they don’t know what’s on scene. The officers will get on scene where they can see, understand and process what is happening. Meanwhile, dispatchers are still sitting in the center wondering if everybody is OK and what is going on, she explained.

“You are going to have calls that just rip your heart out,” said McDaniel. “You have to listen to people cry because they lose their loved ones; I’ve cried with them.”

The difficult calls and the good calls are what

On thefront lines —

Dispatchers often arethe first ‘on scene’

PERSPECTIVE:Humboldt County Dispatch

Story by Samantha Stine, Winnemucca Publishing

On Super Hero Day, dispatchers donned their favorite super hero comstumes. Above is Makenna Powell as Captain America, Sheri McDaniel as Super Dispatcher and Elishia Hill as Super Woman. SUBMITTED PHOTO


make dispatchers better at their jobs, explained McDaniel. Delivering babies over the phone, or even reuniting a puppy or dog with its family are the types of calls that uplift the staff.

“We get excited over little things, because it’s just the little things that get us through our days. There’s so much bad stuff that happens here as well that you have to focus a lot on the small accomplishments that we do make,” she said.

Despite the stress and the challenges, McDan-iel said that it’s a fun and rewarding profession.

“Everyday is different, almost every call is different and you get to where you like the excitement,” said McDaniel. The best, she said, is when you know you’ve helped somebody. It’s a small community, said McDaniel, and people often don’t understand what goes on behind the scenes at the dispatch center, or how hard staff members work to make sure everyone is safe. Still, McDaniel said she couldn’t imagine doing anything else.

Some days, dispatchers are so inundated with calls that “you’ve no idea what your partner is doing because you’re both so slammed with calls,” she said.

According to McDaniel, last year, the center received 40,000 calls, which averages out to over 100 calls per day.

Due to the type of work dispatchers do, the training is lengthy and intense. McDaniel said it could take a trainee anywhere from nine months to a year to be fully trained and able to take calls on their own.

“It’s pretty serious training; we’ve got to be able to save lives,” said McDaniel.

First, the trainees shadow a dispatcher to learn the language of the job. Part-way through, under supervision, trainees are able to take some calls. Before they fully become dis-patchers, trainees are required to pass the EMD certification, which is the program used when a dispatcher receives a medical call.

McDaniel explained that everything is lined out for them during a medical call; the dispatch-er has to follow the program word for word so it doesn’t leave a lot of room for chit-chatting with the caller. Depending on the situation, they are also required to give pre- and post-arrival instructions to the caller as well.

McDaniel explained that she likes to make sure the trainees have been at the dispatch center for a while before sending them for their EMD training/certification. McDaniel said that certification is the final leg of training following 911s and emergency/non-emergency traffic stops.

All dispatchers have to re-certify their EMD every two years and have to have 24 credits of

continuing education during those two years as well, she said.

The dispatch center is in a really good posi-tion, said McDaniel, from when she first began. With all of the new staff members, she said that everyone is able to work a regular 40-hour week with three 12-hour shifts and one 4-hour shift.

Currently, McDaniel said there are three senior dispatchers — not including herself — two full dispatchers, and three other dispatchers who don’t have their EMD certification yet but should be certified by August.

“Employee-wise we are at a really good place that we haven’t really been before,” said McDaniel.

The new building is also a night and day dif-ference, said McDaniel.

“It makes such a huge difference to be able to look out the windows.”

Multiple times she expressed how thankful and lucky the dispatchers are for such a nice building.

“I don’t think people think about it but when you are in a building for 12 hours a day; you come in, it’s dark and when you leave, it’s dark and you don’t get to experience day, it’s really draining on a person,” explained McDaniel. McDaniel is also grateful for the expanded space, noting that in the previous building, they were “practically sitting in eachother’s laps.”

More space, large windows and more dis-patchers has made for a much better work environment.

“You do burn out fast, but we have a really good crew right now,” said McDaniel, “We try to make jokes and stuff during the times that we can and try to help support each other as much as we can.”

And overall, despite the stress and the high level of multitasking required, McDaniel said she absolutely loves her job and loves serving Humboldt County.

775.623.5066750 W Winnemucca Blvd

Day or Night. Above or Underground. Out on the

trail or just down the street.Thank you

for beingthere.

We are grateful for the servicesyou provide our community.

1000 Eden Valley Road, Golconda, NVPHONE: 775-623-3526 FAX: 775-623-0666

Thank you,First Responders


Humboldt General Hospital EMSAT LEFT: (from left to right and front to back)

Row 1: Mike Bell, Charles Paddock, Ken Whittaker, Hospital Administrator Jim Parrish, Director of EMS Rescue Pat Songer, Tim Spangler, Monique Rose, Fergus Laughridge

Row 2: Jason Manley

Row 3: Jared Oscarson, Debbie Whittaker, Brittany Phillips,

Row 4: David Ellis, Jordan Kohler, Emily Goldman, Dylan Angus

Row 5: Brian Aitken, Brad Kitts, Brenda Willey, Andrew Loveless

Row 6: Howard Jolly, Kevin Malone, Jody Tiske, John Foster

Row 7: Stacey Wines, Amy Villalobos, Kalie Parrish,Kevin Grannis

Row 8: Mike Cogsdill

BELOW: Members of the HGH EMS Honor Guard, the only EMS honor guard in the state and one of very few in the nation.


Winnemucca Rural Volunteer Fire Dept.

Town of Kingston Fire Company

Winnemucca Rural Fire Department was established by Chief Neil Wright in July, 1976, to serve the increasing num-ber of residences that were spreading outside the confines of the Winnemucca City Limits.

It is made up of 2 fire districts; the Winnemucca Rural Fire District and the Humboldt Fire District. It covers approx-imately 280 square miles and runs from Winnemucca north on US 95 to 16 Mile Road, east to the Buttons Point Rest Area, and south and west to the Hum-boldt/Pershing County Line as well as 10 miles of Jungo Road to 10 Mile Hill. The two districts also cover approximately 23 miles of Interstate 80 as well as 16 miles of US 95, both heavily traveled parts of the Federal Highway System.

The department is managed by a Chief, Assistant Chief, Captain and two Lieutenants. It consists of 26 fulltime/active members as well as 6 retired reservists. Since 1996 it has been called to a maximum of 101 runs and a mini-mum of 53 runs a year for a yearly aver-age of 77 runs per year.

Front row left to right: Rural Fire Chief Ron Schrempp, Dewey Guercio, Dave Tregallis, Weston Stickney, Juan Mercado, JP Marden, Assistant Chief Torrey SheenSecond row: Shelton Thomason, Gus Duncan, Rob Silva, Isaac Bengochea, Don Valle, Dave Schwartz, Kyle AndersonThird partial row: Scott Christiansen, Brett McCoy, Jeff Schrempp, Lazaro LecumberryNOT PICTURED: Keith Aiken, Tim Billingsley, Jesse Hill, Stacy Miller, Roberto Mercado, Kelly Pollock, Charlie Smith

Adam Greenfield - Fire Chief Robert Flynn - Assistant Fire Chief Ann Miles - First Responder Coordinator John Miles - Captain Shannon Thiss - Firefighter

Rick Hardin - Firefighter Chris Center - Firefighter Kevin Willis - Firefighter Chip Colpits - Firefighter Deborah Cardozo - Firefighter


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Russ DiFioriJarad MitchellJim KienholzJason AshburyChris HanksWayne TuckerRobert CrommelinMarcel Abrille

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Brianne BealerDavid BryanSteve WrightEric Clifford

Left to Right:

Peter BarnesBob Brewer

Sarah RosascoDolores Shields

Warren Yarnell - Fire ChiefBill Brewer - Asst. Fire Chief

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Coeur Rochester Mine RescueBack row left to right:Ryan Santos, Jesse Katsaris, Blair Campbell,John Wright, Ernie Fortmann, Mike Marin,Arie Lucas, Rich Wagner

Bottom kneeling left to right:John Moe, and Phillip Moulton

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Mike Chadwell, AEMTBrad Oliveira, Paramedic

Rick Harrison, NRPRick Bell, NRP

Steve Towne, NRPJustin Fox, EMT

Cassandra Shoopman, NRP

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Chris Soule, AEMTRon Snellings, EMT

Dave Wall, EMTDelicia Priest, NRP

Kim Schacht, EMT (Austin)Patsy Young, EMT (Austin)


From left to right, back row is Annie Lacy, Monique Monroe, Jerry Monroe, Nicole Chapia, Trevor Montes, Junior Lacy, and Sasha Darr. Front row is Ursula Mon-roe (holding baby Lyla June) and Steve Montes.

Robert Rodriguez, Dustin Filippe, Andy Tarr, Duane Troike, Tim Lambert, James Matthews, Joe Gourley, Warren Havens, Sam Kampf, and Chris Hanks.

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Back row, left to right: Visiting Access Flight Nurse, Bob Starkey, Visiting Access Flight Medic, Dan Bell, Pat Murphy, Jim Lindeman, Andrew Smith, Robert Smalley, Monica Stan-daert

Front row, left to right: Visiting employees Turrell Jensen and Juan Vazquez, EMR members Chris Slovernic, Alejandro Lopez, Danny Mason and Karen Cook

EMR members not present: Christy Broadway, Jerry Campbell, Leonardo Castaneda, Milo Chapman, Rebecca Cole, Terry Gamble, Phil Gray, Bert Huffaker, Rebecca Ken-ison, Doug Longchamps, Julio Martin, Jerry Murphy, Joanie Pinkston, Antonio Ruiz, Robert Schoenecker, Jeff Scott, and Scott Torgerson

BACK ROW LEFT TO RIGHT: Pat Young, Jason Flanagan Jim Long, Joe Wilson, Justin Irvin, Greg Thies, Amanda Young, Robert Schoenecker, Jon Brooks

FRONT ROW LEFT TO RIGHT: Bryan Lott, Nathan Moles, Sean Burke, Gary Herley, Sandy Schoe-necker, Zach Johnson, Steve Sanders

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Humboldt County’s first National Night Out was a huge success and sur-passed the sheriff’s office expectations.

Sheriff Mike Allen said he’d attended Carson City’s first couple National Night Out events and he felt like Humboldt County’s turn out was much better. “I was real happy with the attendance,” said Allen. “I feel it was a complete success.”

The National Night Out program has been going on in the U.S. since 1984, said Allen, and is designed to partner the community with their law enforcement. Here in Winnemucca the sheriff’s office decided to include all of the resources available to the community.

The sheriff’s office, police department, Humboldt General Hospital Ambulance and Rescue, Winnemucca City Fire, Humboldt County Rural Fire, the Neva-da Highway Patrol, Nevada Division of Investigation and Winnemucca Domestic Violence Services were all present to meet the community and provide information.

The event included tours of the dis-patch center and jail which was a big hit. Allen said they’d received multiple compliments on both facilities. Individ-

uals who hadn’t seen either were quite surprised with the facilities.

Additionally there were a few games and lots of fun handouts for the children who attended. Free hamburgers and hot dogs were also a perk for those who came to the event.

The sheriff’s office is looking to make this an annual event. This year, Allen said, they wanted to take a conserva-tive approach to the event as they were unsure what kind of turn out there would be. Now that they’ve seen how success-ful the event was they have plans to get more organizations/groups, add more activities for the children and put more advertising out.

Allen gave credit to Captain Andy Rorex for the idea of having a National Night Out event in Winnemucca. The sheriff’s office worked diligently for three weeks to put the event together, Allen said; the event turned out great consid-ering the short amount of time they had to plan, he said.

Allen extended thanks to the commu-nity for the great turn out and all of their support and hopes next year’s will be just as successful.

Curious spectators slowly drove by to see what was happening one evening in early August, but it was nothing to be alarmed about. Yes, there was smoke coming from the Winnemucca Hotel, but it was made by a machine, as the City of Winnemucca Volunteer Fire Depart-ment was doing training in the vacant building.

Javier Rivera, the current owner of the Winnemucca Hotel, allowed the fire department to perform some

on-site training. Assistant Fire Chief Walt “Bud” Vetter used the smoke machine to simulate a low-visibility situation for firefighters. The purpose of the exercise was to familiarize the firefighters with procedures for searching rooms where victims could have succumbed to smoke inhalation.

The firefighters entered the build-ing in three-man teams with a back-up firefighter, staying in contact with each other while searching each room in a right to left manner.

National Night Out was an opportunity for the community to learn more about and meet their first responders. There were funs and games for the kids, tours of the dispatch and detention center and free hamburgers and hot dogs for all those who attended. Above, Cami Durick gives chase to Thomas Sowinski during the event.

A firefighter assists the-three-man crew that is training in the smoke at the Winnemucca Hotel.

National Night Out a huge success

Winnemucca Hotel used for volunteer fire department training

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Story and photo by Samantha Stine, Winnemucca Publishing

Story and photo by Tony Erquiaga, Winnemucca Publishing

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for springing to actionat a moment’s notice,

for having compassion for othersin times of crisis,

and for all the sacrifices made to keep everyone safe.

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