No one was seriously injured in the Terrra Mar Village tornado, but that support came sooner rather than later. Evacuate if you live in a mobile home, substandard housing, recreational vehicle or campsite. Click here for interactive Evacuation Zone Map Evacuate if you live in a low-lying, flood prone area. Volusia County Fire Services suspends response to emergency medical calls.
VOLUSIA COUNTY EVAC SOFTWARE
Those ambulances may start at EVAC's headquarters, but thanks to computer technology, those ambulances deploy, and then rotate throughout the county based on where the software tells them they should be. Evacuate if you live in the hurricane evacuation zone. Several thousand acres in Volusia County alone are burning. That program tells EVAC dispatchers where hot spots will be throughout the county at any given time of day based on a history of accidents and emergencies in past years.ĮVAC is one of only a handful of ambulance services in Central Florida which has computer-assisted deployment.
While it may sound like coincidence, it's actually part of a system called Emergency-Predicting software. “I think these guys should get credit for that."Īn EVAC ambulance was parked in an Edgewater shopping center just two miles away from Terra Mar Village when the tornado hit. "I've never seen a response as quickly as that,” said Cassano. The most recent test of the strategy was Monday when an EF-1 tornado struck the Terra Mar Village in Edgewater around 5:30 p.m.īill Cassano, whose home was damaged, said he saw EVAC ambulances in his subdivision within a matter of minutes. The transport of a patient is provided by Volusia County EVAC. It may seem like where they park is by random, but it’s actually part of a sophisticated system to get ambulances to emergencies faster. The Ormond Beach Fire Department provides Advanced Life Support emergency medical services. Ambulances are being parked in different intersections throughout Volusia County.
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