Oliver First Response Team
The Oliver First Response Team (FRT) was created in 1991, with sixteen people trained at that time. Faces have changed quite a lot since then with only two of the original team members still on the roster.We currently have fourteen trained Emergency First Response (EFR) team members, five of whom were trained in late 2001 by our own First Response Instructor. We also have two trainees anxious to become full members of our busy team.
We respond, together with the Paipoonge FRT, to a very large volume of first response calls in Oliver Paipoonge. Oliver Paipoonge covers 349 square kilometers with a population of approximately 6,000 people, many of whom are clustered in the villages of Rosslyn, Murillo and Kakabeka Falls.
Although Oliver Paipoonge has two distinct FRT's (a necessity in our large municipality) the coordinators have a good relationship and work together to offer similar training in two separate locations on alternate weeks to accommodate the team members.
We strive to maintain a team that operates in a professional manner, and the response of many in the community indicates that we are successful.
