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Show Commissioners to Sponsor EMT Course in January sonnel from adjoining areas and other medical personnel in the county; Fourth Mine or industrial in-dustrial safety personnel; Fifth General public. Those interested in the course should complete the application form as soon as possible. Forms are available from Garfield Memorial Clinic or from the following individuals: Antimony, Melvin Kruitzer; Boulder, Larry Davis; Bryce Valley, Joe Thompson; Escalante, Hank or Naomi Bolton; Panguitch, Kim Soper or Sheldon Jackson; and Ticaboo, Randy Squires. These individuals can also be contacted regarding Advanced First Aid and CPR courses. Course instructors will include the medical staff of Garfield Memorial Hospital and EMT in-st-uctors Kim Soper and Sheldon Jackson. Although instruction costs are paid by the County and the State Health Department, each student will be responsible respon-sible for the costs of books, materials, handouts han-douts and State testing amounting to approximately ap-proximately $65. McCullough emphasizes em-phasizes that although applicants are encouraged en-couraged to complete an advance first aid course and a CPR course prior to January, the EMT course is not designed for those interested in being trained solely for their own first aid knowledge. That training may be obtained from those EMTs currently certified as Advanced First Aid and CPR instructors.' Since there may be more applicants for the course than slots available, acceptance to the course will be based on the following priority system and secondarily on the order in which ap-plciations ap-plciations are recieved: First, those willing to make a commitment to serving as part of the Ambulance or initial Garfield County Commissioners, in conjunction with Five County Emergency Medical Services, will be sponsoring an Emergency Medical Technician's Course starting January 10, 1981 in Escalante. The course which is designed to train volunteers and professional service people to operate as part of ambulance crews and emergency medical response teams will be held each weekend, four hours Friday night and all day Saturday, for eight weeks, according to class coordinator and Ambuance Operations Office Robert McCullough. Mc-Cullough. Upon successful completion of course work, 16 hours of internship in-ternship at a Salt Lake City Emergency Department and Ambulance Am-bulance Service, and a passing score in both the written and practical tests conducted by representatives of the State Health Department, the participants will be certified as an EMT-A. Presently, the county operates ambulances in Panguitch, Bryce Valley and Escalante. All three of these areas need additional ad-ditional EMTs who are willing to work on the ambulance. In addition, if enough EMTs are trained to provide adequate coverage, an ambulance unit will be placed in Boulder. Initial response personnel who are EMT-A EMT-A certified and who could give initial aid until the arrival of an ambulance are needed in Hatch, Antimony and Ticaboo. ii response crews in Boulder, Bryce Valley, Escalante, Panguitch, Antimony, Hatch and Ticaboo; Second, law Enforcement En-forcement and Park Service Rescue Personnel Per-sonnel located in the County or Bullfrog Marina; Third, Emergency Medical or Rescue Per- |