Greenville County (SC)

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This Wiki article for Greenville County is currently out-of-date with regards to the EMS. The GCEMS has recently started addressing units over the radio by vehicle ID (Medic 1, Medic 25, etc). While the units may be assigned to a station, they mostly float to different stations now. The shifts have been broken down into an unknown pattern where it appears that 3-4 ambulances change shift at once and this takes place a couple of different times to handle all of the day/night crews on each of the ambulances. The QRVs have been renamed to Medic 4X (where X is the number they used to have; Medic 3 is now Medic 43). Some of the stations are the same, but some are no longer in use or have a QRV instead of an ambulance (or vice-versa). One instance of this is the Travelers Rest station, which is not in use. An ambulance now lives at the Slater-Marietta headquarters (where Medic 3 used to reside) and an ambulance now lives at the Duncan Chapel Fire Station (which previously did not house a regular unit; used to house a "floater" ambulance); this effectively split that call area and balanced Travelers Rest between two stations. Although I cannot confirm this completely, I believe there is a QRV at the Berea EMS station now instead of a regular ambulance and I believe the Duncan Chapel unit typically responds to calls in that area.

If someone with better connections to GCEMS can acquire new information, it would be appreciated. I've worked with the fire department in the past, but I'm currently not active and they aren't inclined to pass out great wealths of information to uninvolved individuals. Along with station assignments, we should try to get a listing of the 10-codes, signals, and codes that EMS uses as they often refer to patient status and/or locations.