Emergency Medical Services of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Inc. would like to extend a sincere thanks and a “Job Well Done” to the six ALS services of our Strike team that deployed on August 29, 2008 to Louisiana for Hurricane Gustav. Their missions included but were not limited to evacuating hospitals; setting up triage in hard hit areas; assisting the state of Louisiana with running special needs evacuation areas and returning patients to hospitals after the hurricane passed. These “Brave” team members had to “weather” out the hurricane during its landfall and trip through Louisiana.

Services and Personnel deployed included:

Emergency Medical Services of Northeastern Pennsylvania Inc,
Deputy Commander of Pa Task Force 1 – John Campos

American Patient Transport Systems, Inc

Paramedic – Dale LeCrone
Paramedic – David Onder
EMT – Michael McMahon
EMT – Peter Matweecha

Cottage Hose Ambulance Corps

Paramedic – Ronald Tezzano (Team Leader)
Paramedic – Ted Evans
EMT – John Bolig
EMT – Michael McHale

Community Life Support Systems Inc.

Paramedic – Matthew Krisiak
Paramedic – Charles Moore
Paramedic – Traci Thomson
EMT – Michael Pehonich

Hanover Township Community Ambulance Association

Paramedic – Christopher Woolfolk
Paramedic – Keith Feschuk
EMT – Travis Temarantz
EMT – Robert Williams

Lackawanna Ambulance

Paramedic – Steven Warner
EMT – John Grady
EMT – John Bein

Trans-Med Ambulance

Paramedic – Joseph Clisham
Paramedic – Jason Ward
EMT – Phillip Hamilton

You can view some of the pictures of the team and some of the disaster areas they had seen during the deployment by clicking here.