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Ordinance No. 1998-14 BE IT ORDAINED that the following portions of Sections 26 -51 through 26-68, Part II of the Code of Ordinances, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, Chapter 26 Emergency Services, Article III First Responder Program, are hereby amended to read as follows: ARTICL~- nL FIRST RESPONDZR PP. OGRAM_~ Sec. 26-51. Purpose of article. The county emergency medical service has transport vehicles certified by the state office of emergency medical services (OEMS), which are manned by personnel trained and certified as and paramcdic~ Paramedics (EMT-P). The service has O~-ee six (6) stations which serve the county Cabarrus County. The main station, Station 1, is located in the northwest part of Concord. Station 2 ..................... is located at o_3n Highway 49 at across from Central High h p .... :~' Cabarrus School whic rovidc: ,, u;~, ....... ~n~ ~a .,,~ ,~ ¥, A ..... ~ .... ":*~ "":~- Station 3 is located on Jackson Street in Mount Pleasant and provides coverage for the northeast section of the county. Station 4 presently operates out of Fieldcrest-Cannon's Fire Station on North Loop Road and serves the northern part of Kannapotis and the northwest section of the County. Station 7 is staffed at Concord Fire Station Five on Pitts School Road and covers th~ western part of the County. Station 8 is staffed at Midland Volunteer Station on Highway 601, South and covers the southern-most part of'the County. Presently our average response time is less than five (5) min .... :ch :o 12 minu:c~. The pfima~ goal of an emergency medical se~ice system is to reduce the probability of death of a victim by providing trained, well-equipped personnel at the scene of ~ accident or illness in a prompt, efficient, and coordinated manner. Research studies indicate that 50 percent of those who die from traumatic injuries die outside the hospital emergency depamment. Seventy percent of our nation's traffic fatalities occur in rural areas; however, rural areas represent only 40 percent of the nation's population. The ACT Foundation (advanced corona~ treatment) reported that the chances for recove~ of a victim in ventficular fibrillation (a form of cardiac ~est) is 25 out of 100 when the medical response time is within five minutes. The rate drops to 1 out of 100 when the medical response time is ten minutes. A victim of cardiac ~est may die in 4 - 6 minutes. It is not economically feasible to operate ~d maintain ~ ambulance se~ice in eve~ town and junction in the county. However, it is most desirable to have medically trained personnel located in close proximity to the citizens so that life sustaining measures may be given in the first few minutes after the occu~ence of an accident or illness. A first responder program is a logical and economically feasible way to ensure that prehospital c~e is available to the rural citizens in the first minutes when life or death may be decided. (Ord. of 12-7-92(2), § 1) Sec. 26-52. Requirements for certification of a first responder agency or an individual first responder. (a) No agency or department shall furnish, operate, conduct, maintain, advertise, be engaged in or profess to be engaged in service as a first responder agency unless that agency holds a currently valid certificate to operate as a first responder issued by the county department office