Ema Bike Team }{ Evansville Vanderburgh EMA

[Tim]

The EMA Bike Team is an all volunteer team, and membership is open to those persons interested in cycling and public service. Anyone seeking more information regarding membership can contact Kyle Kirkman, Team Leader/Lead Instructor by email at [e-mail]

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General Bicycle Mobile Operations

Public Safety, Urban Response

Bicycle mobile units have increased in popularity within the police, fire/EMS, hospital systems, and wilderness search and rescue communities due to their operational successes. These units were first employed through police departments with reported greater arrest and crime prevention rates than could be attained with foot patrols. By the middle 1990's an estimated 10,000 trained police bike patrol members were actively employed. Police successes with bicycle operation prompted other public safety and rescue services to consider the viability of bike mobile operations within their own communities. Emergency Medical Service entities did find use for bicycle mobile units, first within larger municipalities where congested areas made it difficult to provide quick initial response times, and secondarily in smaller communities bike mobile proved useful at street festivals, parades, concerts, and other special events. Bicycle mobile operations scope has expanded significantly since its inception and is used on an international level in city and county fire/EMS departments, towns, villages, military installations, college/universities, hospital-based EMS, and search and rescue teams. The following are current uses for bike mobile EMS:

·Special events

·Rapid response in wilderness and rugged areas

·Daily patrol in congested areas, such as downtowns and tourist areas

·Patrol of airports, train stations, subways, tunnels and depots

·Urban and wilderness search and rescue teams

·Amusement parks and sporting arenas

·Patrol of college/university campuses

·Disaster response

·Mass casualty incidents over a large geographic area

·Public safety education

·Public relations campaigns

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[kylekirkman]

Tim thanks for posting this.....

Just FYI- You don't have to be an EMT/Paramedic/RN or medically trained other than cpr 1st aid do be part of this... There are a million different ways to serve while on bike.. medically, local info, directions, giving info about bikes and bike related stuff....

We work walks and runs for the YMCA and greater evansville Walkers and Runners club.... try to patrol the greenway and downtown areas... worked 1 day of the Freedom fest and hope to do more next year as we expand members...

The Evansville Emergency Management Agency is a govt entity which helps coord disater efforts locally and is the main hub of District 10 which covers 10 or so counties in southwest Indiana/ and is also coupled with the Indiana department of Homeland Security. I hope that this team and the Hoosier Trial Patrol as a whole can provide support service, on bike, for declared disasters statewide and serve as an example for other states and national MTB patrol groups...

For instance the EMA Team will be helping to create damage reports for the EMA/FEMA after high wind/storm damage/ earthquake ect...

Also there are many other free trainings you can be part of if interested....

A major theme of this is operation is to crossover into the offroad, coupling with the Hoosier Trail Patrol/ National Mountain Bike Patrol... for a statewide coupling of MTB's and Emergency Management....

I'm "in charge" I suppose, and I'm not out to make this team complicated or a burden for interested persons so give me a shout if you are curious. We all have busy lives and I'm not going to demand people be at every event.... actually we'll all chit chat about it and see what we want to do and how best to do it... if we cant meet a request- we turn it down. it's as easy as that.

Holla-
-Kyle...