River Road Rescue Squad

Did you know that River Road Rescue Squad was the first EMS agency in New Jersey to adopt vehicle-to-vehicle alerting with HAAS Alert's Safety Cloud? This low cost and easy to implement solution assists in keeping patients, providers and the public safe by delivering alerts directly in to vehicles up to half a mile away from a vehicle involved in responding to or providing emergent care. Comment below and share your thoughts and/or unique technology your agency has adopted to improve safety!

In understanding that public service a EMS is a life long journey, we are proud to continually support our providers in their educational journey. Pictured below are Lieutenants Hamza Choudhry and Rihi Jain upon completion of the Emergency Medical Operations coursework delivered on-site at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness which covers operations in a CBRNE event. Always keep on learning!

Provider Spotlight?: Samantha Fernandes Samantha is from Edison, NJ and is going to Rutgers University New Brunswick with a major in Cell Biology and Neuroscience. She chose EMS because she loves helping the community and sees it as a perfect introduction to the medical field. Fun fact: She’s a talented musician who plays both the viola and piano!????

We express our gratitude to all our volunteers for their unwavering dedication. Today, we celebrate our Top 10 members with the highest hours contributed in the first half of this year. Thank you for your significant impact!

Please join us in congratulating provider Shreya Rawat on her acceptance into Penn State College of Medicine! Shreya has been with us for just over six years! She epitomizes commitment to community and perseverance sticking with us through seemingly endless operational changes while earning her undergrad at Seton Hall University. We are sad to see her go, but we wish her nothing but the best in her future studies se she nurtures her love for service and medicine.

We are proud to have worked with the amazing team at Zello in the first ever deployment of their amazing platform to the Siyata Mobile Inc SD7 platform! In the below press release, Chief Shegoski states "We are enthused to be able to deploy the feature rich Zello for Business solution on our SD7 devices. We have long been a proponent of this combined solution which pairs this leading?PTT platform with offerings directly comparable to the same features we expect from a traditional LMR solution accessible through the only device on the market that not only acts like a traditional LMR radio, but is also receives regular product development, improvement, and support. This combined solution offers promise as a scalable solution across multiple geographic regions with a truly reasonable price point for deployment in terms of end user device,?LMR integrations and PTT network. Siyata and Zello together breaks us free of the bloated costs and bureaucracy that routinely plagues LMR public safety solutions. We cannot wait to see what the future holds as this offering continues to be developed."

EMS is not simply about "answering the call", but is also about "what can we do for our community?" As we have come out of COVID, our team has made a concerted effort to engage with our community at a level that we never have before. Whether it be something as simple as a movie night, as regular as community education, or as complex as supporting the voice of the voter, we are here for it! We are a link in our community to a time and place when neighbors new all their neighbors and service to the community was held high on a pedestal. Please comment below and let us know what your organization does to engage with the community outside of patient care and education? Also, if you happen to be in the area, come enjoy some delicious pasta while meeting our providers and supporting a great cause!

Provider Spotlight?: Hamza Choudhry Hamza currently volunteers as an EMT Lieutenant for the River Road Rescue Squad and maintains clinical oversight of their over 40 EMTs. He also works as an EMT for Hackensack Meridian Health and is a member of their EMS competition team. To aid in improving EMS services in his community, he led a campaign to successfully pass legislation establishing an EMS advisory council in the township of Piscataway. He was nominated for EMT of the Year at the 2022 National Conference on EMS and is a two-time semifinalist in the National SIM Competition at the same conference. Hamza holds a Bachelor of Science in public health from Rutgers University and plans on continuing his education by attending medical school.

Attention all NJ Undergraduate/Graduate students! Are you looking for a PAID internship this Summer? Well look no further, through the NJ Career Accelerator Internship Grant Program (CAIGP) River Road Rescue Squad is currently recruiting for the following positions. - Social Media & Community Outreach Coordinator - Event Coordinator - Market and Outreach Specialist We are ideally looking for dedicated and hard working college students who have experience or are interested in gaining experience in these areas. We have a number of projects in the works that we believe would be a great opportunity for you to work with our nonprofit and help us achieve some pivotal goals. Eligibility Requirements: * Current NJ undergraduate student * Current NJ Graduate student * Recent NJ College Graduate (May 2023-May 2024 graduates) * Current undergraduate who is out-of-state but permanent NJ resident. Applications being accepted until April 7th! Make sure to send [email protected] your resumes/cover letters before then and feel free to contact us with any questions. You can find more information about the positions on our website using the QR code above or by simply going to https://lnkd.in/eWBVr4Ru Additionally for further information about NJOSHE CAIGP click the link below! https://lnkd.in/e9RD3JsA We look forward to meeting all who apply and are excited to get to work potentially with you.

President?Villavicencio and?Lieutenant?Choudhry were glad to attend today's Community Partner Breakfast hosted by the?Division of Diversity, Inclusion & Community Engagement at Rutgers University. River Road Rescue is proud to be a community organization partnered with The Rutgers Collaborative Center for Community Engagement to accept?Rutgers Bonner Leaders.