IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT BEECH MTN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT!

At our BMC Board Meeting, it was reported by Bob Pudney, Beech Mountain VFD Chief, that they are currently raising funds to purchase a new, State of the Art, 12 Lead Cardiac Monitor and Defibrillator and the target is $33,000. 

He reported, that "Our current Cardiac Monitor is known as a 3 Lead unit and is well over 12 years old. Although it continues to work very well, the technology is outdated and does not allow us to properly monitor a number of cardiac parameters.

The new 12 Lead Cardiac Monitor enables our first responders as well as the Paramedics to gather important information of a person's heart activity in real time and to be able to communicate critical information to the responding Paramedics and to the Emergency Room Physician.

This critical information allows the use of pre-hospital care and drug therapy as needed during the response to the hospital, substantially shortening the initial life saving treatment time"
You may donate on line: http://beechmountainvfd.org/, or send a check to:  Beech Mountain Volunteer Fire Dept, P.O. Box 436, Banner Elk, NC 28604.

And, most important of all, according to Dr. Murry Miller of the Mountain Ambulance and Health Care Foundation, which provides two ambulances with full crew at the bottom of the mountain, they will match all grants made to our Fire Dept for the new EKG.

Please donate on line, or send your checks to the Beech Mountain Volunteer Fire Dept, before you leave!

Nancy Raymond