Narrative

At 10:00 AM PST the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services issued an evacuation order for Oliveview Hospital and several skilled nursing facilities in Sylmar due to the fire.

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Total resources requested were 8 BLS Ambulance Strike Teams and 1 ALS Strike Team. An additional 3 CCT Ambulances were also requested to evacuate 3 ventilator patients, and 7 Neo-natal patients from Oliveview Hospital. Units are responding to the staging area at 12638 Saticoy, North Hollywood, CA.

An ambulance strike team is composed of 5 similar type ambulances with a team supervisor deployed as a single resource.

Provider Commitments

AMR - 2 BLS and 1 AMR ALS Strike Team, and 1 CCT Ambulance

CARE - 2 BLS Strike Teams and 2 CCT Ambulances

WestMed McCormick - 2 BLS Strike Teams

Schaefer Ambulance - 2 BLS Strike Teams

11:00 AM - 2 Stike Teams from CARE arrive at the Staging Area, and the 2 CCT Ambulances arrive at Oliveview.

11:30 AM - Orange County FOAC Conference call held to poll for addtional resources if requested by LA County DHS.

2:00 PM - CARE Ambulance CCT resources finished their assigned transports, and are released from the deployment. The   (2) CARE BLS Strike Teams will be remain at the ambulance staging area until approximately 6:30 PM when a decison will be made to continue the deployment or stand down.

6:30 PM - All resources were released and the incident closed.