Kids & Family
Cub Scout Pack 182 Enjoys visit from NorthSTAR Helicopter!
While learning about First Aid & Rescue, Scouts were treated to a visit from the NorthSTAR Medevac Helicopter and it's EMT Crew on Saturday!
On Saturday April 24, 2021 Warren Cub Scout Pack 182 held an event to help Scouts learn about First Aid and Rescue. Warren Township rescue, fire and fire police brought vehicles and personnel to educate all Scouts grades K-5. Then the group was lucky enough to receive a visit from a NorthSTAR medevac helicopter landing at the Warren municipal fields!
NorthSTAR, based at Somerset Airport in Bedminster is part of the JEMSTAR program, in conjunction with the New Jersey State Police and the New Jersey Department of Health. They operate from of a fleet of Agusta AW-139 medevac-equipped helicopters piloted and maintained by the New Jersey State Police Aviation Unit, a UH-EMS Flight Paramedic and Flight Nurse provide advanced life support care while in air transit to specialty centers. Medical flight personnel are highly-experienced ALS employed by University Hospital EMS in Newark. These EMS teams have completed rigorous training in air-medical operations and advanced trauma life support.
The JEMSTAR Flight Crews routinely participate in public outreach programs to educate the public and public safety representatives about the program’s mission, history, request and dispatch guidelines, and safety.
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The goals of these Public Outreach Programs are focused individually at three main audiences that interact with our program. Community Relations programs are developed to promote working relationships with schools, civic organizations, and groups by providing education on trauma prevention, safety, and the JEMSTAR medevac program.
Public Safety Relations programs focus on educating New Jersey's public safety and emergency services personnel on the JEMSTAR program, dispatch and requesting guidelines, landing zone information, and aircraft safety. This program may also include a tour of our medevac aircraft and increases awareness among Law Enforcement, Fire, and EMS agencies that may utilize on-scene responses of JEMSTAR.
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Our Scouts were very lucky to have the chance to meet and interact with the JEMSTAR crew and see the medevac helicopter in person! We give appreciation to our Assistant Cubmaster Ryan Valentino, an EMT and Firefighter himself, who worked hard to put together this event together with Cubmaster Christian Bellmann.
Pack 182 Scouts also participated in a PPE drive, collecting materials in support of Save our State: STAT!, the group of Watchung Hills high school students, aiding people in getting vaccine appointments and other Covid related help.