The North Fork Ambulance is proud to have served the North Fork Community as the only EMS agency in the valley since 1969. As a 100% volunteer agency, supported entirely by membership dues and not tax revenues, a critical component of our promotion, membership recruitment and volunteer recruitment, has been open communication with the community. Open lines of communication to let the community know what the association is doing, has done and will do in the future and what we need from the citizens has helped the NFAA to remain a successful EMS agency.

Below you will find recent articles published by area newspapers in Delta County as well as brief photo galleries of some of the Association's recent events. Look for more pictures to be added as we expand the website in the future and for the addition of a new NFAA Volunteer Recruitment Video!

Photo Galleries:

Lifepak 15 Heart Monitor/Defibrillator Training- March 2010

On March 11th, NFAA EMTs received hands-on training on the Association's brand new Lifepak 15 Heart Monitors and Defibrillators. Special thanks to Delta County Ambulance District EMT-Intermediate Kade Knight for coming up and training us on how to utilize this new, life saving tool.

Mock DUI Crashes- Paonia and Hotchkiss High School - 2009

Last year, just before prom, the NFAA partnered with the Colorado State Patrol, local fire departments and local law enforcement to put on DUI Awareness Week at the two high schools in the North Fork Valley- Paonia and Hotchkiss High. Each year, drunk driving kills hundreds of people across the state of Colorado, and in an attempt to keep high school students safe and educate them to the dangers of underage drinking, partying and driving before and after prom, the Colorado State Patrol hosts DUI Awareness programs at high schools. Under the direction of Sgt. Gardner with the Colorado State Patrol, EMTs from the NFAA responded to a mock DUI crash in the parking lot of each high school where two cars, full of kids attending prom had allegedly wrecked. Each student was in a different position with multiple realistic injuries from the 'crash', thanks to the creative talents of EMT Connie Black and her utilization of moolage to create injuries on the students. Acting out in a real-time minute by minute response, the NFAA responded just as we would to any other call, with the fire department, county sheriff deputies and local law enforcement to the scene, with all of our emergency equipment and vehicles. Upon arriving at the 'scene', where all the students were watching, we proceeded to triage, treat and transport injured parties just as we would at a real accident scene. The goal of the incident was to re-create as realistically as possible a DUI accident scene with mass confusion, life-threatening injuries, and stress the dangers of drunk driving to the students, as well as give our EMTs hands-on training in mass casualty incidents.

Images utilized above are property of the North Fork Ambulance Association and may not be duplicated or used without the expressed consent of the North Fork Ambulance Association.

Newspaper print media is the NFAA's largest supporter and avenue to reach the general public about health tips, recruitment campaigns, news about the association and general information related to EMS in the North Fork Valley.

We will regularly publish links to newspaper articles that we have submitted, or have been written about the NFAA in the space below.

Delta County Independent Articles:

This Vial Could Save Your Life

Non-Profits Receive $47,500 from El-Pomar

North Fork Ambulance Survives the Most Difficult of Years with Grace

Two-Vehicle accident shuts down Hwy 92

Volunteering in EMS is life changing

Ambulances, Building Almost Complete in Paonia