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Show Wednesday, October 22, 1997 The Park Record A-3 unity Beat t COUNTY FDITOI COUNTY EDITOR Kirsta H. Bleyle 649-90 1 4 ext 1 1 2 iJ r 1 f i n iV J V v-j L f i KIRSTA H. BLEYLEPARK RECORD The Park City Fire Service District has filled three captain and one full-time position with the following fol-lowing firefighterEMTs (from left to right): Recently appointed full-timer Darren Nelson, and captains Mark Billmire, Bob Zanetti, and Rick Lynsky. Four men fill open positions with the Park City Fire Service District 0 New employees bring years of fire fighting, medical experience and expertise to the area by Kirsta H. Bleyle OF THE RECORD STAFF To meet the demands of an expanding population, the Park City Fire Service District has appointed three new captains and advanced one part-time firefight-erEMT firefight-erEMT to full-time status. As a reflection of their important impor-tant role in the safety of Park City and the Snyderville Basin, all four men bring varying degrees of experience from eclectic backgrounds back-grounds to their new positional ov The three new captains, Rick Lynsky, Mark. Billmire, and. Bob Zanetti, join the district's three current captains, Gary Kilgore, Doug Burns, and Steve Zwirn in leading the full- and part-time firefighterEMTs employed by the district. Additionally, part time fire-fighterEMT fire-fighterEMT Darren Nelson has been appointed to a full-time position. For all four men, the new positions posi-tions are indicators that their involvement in the community will continue to grow along with the number of structures, newcomers, new-comers, and ever-increasing skier days in the area. Darren Nelson goes from riding the slopes to riding the engines Park City Mountain Resort Ski Patrol veteran Darren Nelson, 31, has taken his skis off to climb onboard on-board the Park City Fire Service District as a full-time firefight-erEMT. firefight-erEMT. According to Nelson, a native of southwestern Colorado and Bountiful, there are a lot of similarities simi-larities between his experience gained during 10 years on PCMR's Ski Patrol and the past two years he has spent working part-time for the fire district. "It's all about helping people," Nelson said, adding that the level of service he offers as a firefight-erEMT firefight-erEMT "is just on a different plane," than the help he gives as a member of Park City's Ski Patrol. Nelson has also managed summer sum-mer operations for the ski area during his time with the organization. organiza-tion. He added that he has also realized real-ized during the past two years, while working for both the ski area and the fire district, that there are many ways to bridge the duties performed by the ambulance ambu-lance service with the duties performed per-formed on the hill by Ski Patrol members'. ' " But the main difference between transporting a traditional tradition-al trauma victim and a ski trauma victim, he pointed out, all comes down to the amount of time spent getting the individual to safety. "As a patroller," Nelson said, "your transport times are a lot more extensivc.it could be 45 minutes before you get (a skier) to a vehicle, ambulance, or the clinic." He added that, because he has experience as both a ski patrol member and a firefighterEMT, Nelson hopes to help the two agencies "work together" on an even higher level than currently exists. With the advent of his full-time full-time status, Nelson said, he will not be returning as a Ski Patrol member this winter, and added that he is looking forward to spending more time with his 16-month-old son, Dane. Capt. Bob Zanetti: no more "acting" While he has spent the past year as an acting captain for the Park City Fire Service District, Cleveland, Ohio native Bob Zanetti did not officially receive his "Captain" title until he took the captain's exam this past summer. sum-mer. For Zanetti, 32, the difference between being a captain and a regular member of the fire dis trict all comes down to giving direction to other firefighterEMTs, making decisions deci-sions while at the scene of an emergency and, sometimes, finding find-ing the right answer to a difficult question. "You need to know the correct answer," Zanetti said regarding the more complex inquiries made by fire district members. His solution: consulting the volumes of information that assist firefighterEMTs fire-fighterEMTs daily. Zanetti, like Nelson, is also a Ski Patrol member who believes there is definite connection between experiences on the slopes and in the field. "' UJ " ' J" This winter will mark his 11th season with the Deer Valley Ski Patrol, but Zanetti points out that it is the experience garnered during dur-ing the 12 months he serves with the fire district that helps his abilities abil-ities on the slopes. Since joining the Park City Fire Service District in 1989, Zanetti has also seen the increasing increas-ing number of skier days at each ski area collaborate directly to the increased number of calls received by the fire district. One of the more rewarding aspects of his work, however, is not witnessed on the busy ski slopes. Rather, it is when an seemingly disastrous accidents occur on busy 1-80 and on local highways. "The thing that's most spectacular," spectac-ular," Zanetti said, "is you see these cars that are totalled. ..and it's amazing to see the people (inside) are OK." Capt. Rick Lynsky: a Southern California native heads for the Northern mountains of Utah Searching for a better quality of life for his family, Captain Rick Lynsky agreed to leave southern California's Redlands Fire Department for the high mountain moun-tain region of Park City. 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