Prerequisite:

EMTF-2, current MOA with NCTTRAC, NCTTRAC Member; ICS 100, 200, 300, 400, 700, and 800

Recent large-scale catastrophes and terrorism incidents have demonstrated the need to apply the “Strike Team” concept (an organized group of personnel and equipment applied to an emergency response), first implemented during massive wildfire campaigns, to the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) response discipline. This course will train EMS personnel in leadership or management positions to serve in the role of Ambulance Strike Team/Medical Task Force Leader. Participants will be taught to prepare for, respond to, and recover from significant events while functioning in a supervisory role over trained personnel ambulances on Mutual Aid assignments to jurisdictions confronted with large numbers of patients requiring mass care or medical evacuation.