| Show C fcuiiiun Payo 4C Thursday hua I Faye 1 911 personnel YALLPAPER YAREHOUSE hearing-impaire- d estimated 175000 d persons in state An Woiiishop experts lectured on the rights of hearing-impaire- staff Bobby Giles wished he had known in 1997 that hospital emergency workers and police officers are required to provide an interpreter for the hearing impaired When the American Fork man who is deaf called 911 to report that his toddler had stopped breathing police and ambulance workers arrived with no one to translate - only pencil and paper “They did their job and my son is safe and alive” Giles said through a teletype typewriter or TTY “but writing things back and forth meant we lost time” on-sce- While no hard statistics exist on the number of lives lost due to miscommunication between the deaf community and 911 operators the time saved by mutual understanding equates to lives saved In working to bridge that communication gap more than 200 deaf and viduals participated indi- hearing-impaire- d in a work- shop held recently on improving between the communication bearing impaired and emergency service operators Organized by the State of Utah’s Division of Comprehensive Emergency Management and staged at the Utah Community Center of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing the workshop brought together the hearing impaired and dozens of area police fire and rescue personnel and 91 1 operators An estimated 175000 deaf individuals and hearing-impaire- d live in Utah Jean Segura-Hawke- state s deaf coordinator program manager said that the end goal of the one-da- y conference was to save lives “We wanted the deaf community to understand the steps involved in getting an emergency services response” she said “and to give them the tools to relay their message before and after Patrol ipent 13 sears as Huntsville's chief of police before joining the XJpper Valley precinct move makes sense said the iPin SLOC and Aminco hope 4o sell approximately 500000 pins and contribute S35000 to the fund The sule of Olympic plates which currently totals some 28000 vehicles is the fund's primary source of revenue Devgns from children at Ne-Ip-- hi liementary $200 to $400 REBATE PER ROLL OR SPOOL help arrives” Workers from the Salt Lake City and Murray police and fire departments used the workshop to stage dramatizations of their response to a home fire and a domestic abuse call The conference’s younger participants inor 20 deaf cluding hearing-impaire- d students from Utah Schools the Ogden-base- d for the Deaf and the Blind toured a LifeFlight helicopter and met rescue dogs from Park City Fire and Rescue “The kids had a terrific experience with the dogs” said Segura-Hawk"and were surprised to see that these weren’t just house pets - to really learn what the dogs do and how they do it” American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters were on hand for all demonstrations Moab's Helen M Kmght Intermediate School land Salt Lake's Mlicreek were chosen earlier in -! 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The idea of precincts is a sense of territorial commitment That way sou bring in a level of accountability with the neighborhood and a sense of trust with police officers” Similar programs across the nation have shown positive results in curbing crime Wadman said Slater said they hope to have all five precincts fully staffed with coverage by the end of summer Reporter Geoffrey Fattah can be 5 or gfat -contacted at lah a Stamford net I 1 MaxRebate 2 79 n "Instead of just me and a handful of part-tim- e guys I have e people and our budget is considerably better” Hadley said Weber State University Crimi- " B499? reporter Tracy aswndardnet All-In-O- Machine soft-side- From 1C Youth and Children Fund which purchases Olympics tickets for jouth EVERYDAY 13 OFF NOW INSTANT full-tim- From 1C mine their concerns Officers will file reports and keep in communication with the sheriffs main office via lap-to- p computer and phone But at least one Weber city has lingering concerns about the sheriff setting up precincts Last fall Pleasant View City decided to keep their own police department rather than contract with the sheriffs office Pleasant View Major Jim Fisher said the ivue was about coverage versus control “That was the big concern that ve had We didn't know if that was fair to citizens to put that in Jhe hands of the sheriffs department" I isher said Many residents expressed concern I isher said about turning iover city money to the sheriffs department without having any budgetary control over spending I Fisher said the city was impressed with Slater's idea adding lie thought Pleasant View would probably have better coverage by joining the precinct but added the budgetary concerns won over Weber Sgt Ryan Hadley who HUGE MANUFACTURES REBATES OVER 1000 TO CHOOSE FROM) (IN-STOC- K the hearing impaired in emergency situations By TRACY GUSSON Standard-Examin- Mattress Center Setts WALLCOVERING & BORDERS work to save lives live Standard-Examine- r Top of Utah May 6 1999 9t I trj 572S774 fa- - VJ 964 2AT0 ’ r - 1 2TS1A56 r W- - SV4 |
