The South Orange Dispatch: Be Prepared, Know First Aid!
Knowing first aid is more than a nice-to-have. It’s a way to be prepared for emergencies and provide mutual aid and care to your neighbors.
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South Orange Rescue Squad
The South Orange Dispatch: 2 Decades of Teaching CPR
SORS has evolved its training programs, including CPR, to increase the availability of and access to health services and care — an important factor in reducing harmful social determinants of health and health inequities.
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The South Orange Dispatch: Meet Our New Technical Rescue Team Leader, Scott Laster
South Orange (NC) Rescue Squad is run by volunteers like TRT Assistant Chief Scott Laster, and this month’s South Orange Dispatch features a formal introduction to what SORS and the TRT does!
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The South Orange Dispatch: Summer Heat Safety for Older Adults
As we’re pulling this together, Orange County is experiencing its fourth straight day under an extreme heat advisory and most of the land area is officially in an exceptional drought, the highest possible rating.
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The South Orange Dispatch: Learn How To Stop the Bleed
Be a lifesaver! Know how to control bleeding. Follow along with this month’s column from SORS for advice to help a bleeding person until EMS arrives.
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The South Orange Dispatch: How To Help Someone Who’s Overdosing
What if I told you there’s an easy way to save someone who’s overdosing? It’s true! Quickly giving naloxone can reverse symptoms and buy time until EMS arrives.
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The South Orange Dispatch: Your 911 Questions Answered!
Folks have a lot of questions about how emergency medical response works, so we decided to try to answer them!
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The South Orange Dispatch: How To Lower Your Risk of Falling
It’s one of those texts you don’t want to get, and I got three of them in just over a month’s time. Somebody fell. Not your casual pop right back up kind of tumble, but the serious kind. The sort that can be, and in one case was, fatal.
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The South Orange Dispatch: Have a Happy and Safe Holiday!
With the winter holidays underway, we’ve got a few reminders to help you get through them safer and healthier.
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The South Orange Dispatch: What You Make Possible
Our volunteers provide critical services, but we couldn’t do it without financial support from people like you. For our all-volunteer non-profit, your gifts are a vital supplement to other income streams like grants, matching gifts, special event coverage and billing for services.
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