Behind the Scenes: Inside Catskills Hatzalah’s Mega Operations - The Perlowitz Show

by the Catskills garage of Fsburg, New York. Campaign. Let's see what Catsula is all about. Raidel. >> Wow. Wow. Good to see you. Good to see you. >> The mic and let's go. I told I said cats something. We see >> put on the mic. >> Put on the vest. Yeah. >> Okay. We have to stop already the video. >> Wow. It's going to be hard to do a video over here cuz at the end of the day coordinator and there's going to be calls coming in. But let's go. >> Hopefully, it's going to be quiet. >> Hopefully, it's going to be quiet. So, Rabid Catula is something that everybody knows, but let's see what goes on inside behind the scenes in the garage with a day-to-day basis over here. Take us in. >> Absolutely. Let's come. Well, first obviously we're outside already. >> Beautiful, beautiful garage. >> Falls headquarters. And as you can see, we have enough parking here for the members to come and take ambulances or if we have any meetings or we have training for the members over here. So we have enough place to park. So this is kind of the central location. Yeah. So I said before cat schools are different than every location but either you have your son and camp over here and they rest assured they know cat is the covenant. like a sleep ruig knowing that catula is there >> and we're here 365 days a year. We're here all year, all winter. >> So, it's not a secret anymore. There are almost about a thousand families living in the cats year round. Wow. >> In addition to all these people that have, you know, beautiful second homes here that constantly come up for Shabusim in the winter or when there's uh, you know, legal holidays. So we're always ready. We have almost 40 members EMTs that live here year round upstate from Bloomingburg to Liberty and everything in between Falls, Kaameisha, Woodridge. And now there's a community in Swan Lake coming the communities >> coming out of Square right. They're going to be starting off I here with about 100 families. >> Wow. So >> you know we're preparing. >> We're preparing. um paramedics that we put them through the training. But we also have a rotation of medics that come up every day throughout the winter. The winter means right after the summer ends till the summer starts. So for the remaining 9 and 1/2 months, we have a medic that comes up every day >> and stays here for 24 hours, a volunteer to help cover ALS. in the cats year round. Wow. >> And we'll have an opportunity soon. I'll show you. We're building a new garage in Kaisha where we're going to have room for the medics to stay and sleep. A comfortable spot for them. >> Wow. Okay. >> So, let's go inside. >> So, this is the dispatch room here in Fallsburg. This is our only dispatch room for now. >> Wow. >> As you can see, we have room for four dispatches actually to sit. Most summer shifts in the Catskills, we go with at least three dispatches because it's so busy in the summer, especially around the weekends from Thursday to Monday morning. Um, it gets very, very busy. >> Wow. >> Sometimes you have three dispatches over here. >> Yes. And when they dispatch from here, people don't know. They're dispatching for the entire New York City Atsula and the Catskills. >> Wow. >> So these dispatchers get the calls. If you call Tatsula phone number, it's ringing here. And when they dispatch, they're actually talking and dispatching to >> bar flush flabish to the whole city and the cats. >> Wow. >> So it's one of the dispatch centers that is used a lot during the summer months when so many of the dispatches are upstate. >> That's amazing. That's ming to casc. Wow. And geographically, you guys probably cover the most territory. >> It's about a thousand square miles that we cover. It's about three times the size of the entire New York City. That's that's a real and that's why we need to have and I urge people to guess how many ambulances they think Katazatula has. >> And I sometimes ask people, one guy guesses five. >> Someone even told me he thinks two or three. >> Um someone remembers Borak there's about 10. So he doesn't even think Cascus has that much. Well, Cascus has 20 ambulances. >> 20 ambulances. >> 20 state of the state-of-the-art ambulances spread out through the entire Catskills. >> Wow. >> Since it's such a large area, we need to have so many ambulances to be able to reach all the calls in a timely fashion to be able to get there quick. Plus, in addition to that, like last week, Friday, we did a record amount of calls. You did >> 87 calls just >> one Friday. >> One Friday. We never had so many calls. >> And we had at one time maybe 13 or 14 ambulances on calls at the same time. When the dispatchers come here, sometimes they're doing dayshifts after breakfast or after lunch, but sometimes they're here overnight. So when the dispatchers are here, we want them to be able to have the basics of what they need. So, we have a fridge stocked with drinks. We have the coffee machine up here. And before the weekends, we stock the freezer. But now that it's after the weekend, it's ready for restock. >> Wow. >> Oh, wow. >> Some snacks here to keep them going. Don't forget sometimes the medics that come up here for the shifts in the middle of the winter. So even if they're sleeping in the hotel or IHS gives us a cottage many times so that the members can stay there. But here they have come here and work. They have Wi-Fi over here and they can also make grab a snack. And so we'll go back into the garage. So the dispatchers, they have their own entrance. They can come straight from the outside. From there they have this bedroom kitchenet their own facilities over here so that it doesn't disturb anything else that might be going on uh in the garage and the garage. >> Let's see. So here we have this is the office administrative office that the coordinators can take care of business. Um our fundraising um gets taken care of out of these offices over here. >> The GOA campaign is out of this office. >> The campaign is coming up and part over here. There's another office there for the fundraiser himself. Yo Marovich, let's give him a shout out. And >> oh wow, this is >> this is this is our conference room. So this is the room where we can have meetings um with officials, law enforcement or any other agencies that we deal with as well as having uh meetings for ourselves. You know business. Uh we have a kitchenet right out there if we ever serve food. Um we have access straight there from the kitchen. There's also an entrance >> straight out. Oh, I get so actually park in fifth and members and around the weekends um since a lot of members are here uh they come here and they have the Thursday night, Sunday night, Sunday morning >> the inagonia takes place over here. >> You're part of the she if I may ask? Yes, I try. I try as much as I can. As much as they let you. Sometimes >> sometimes they don't let me, but >> Wow. Wow. >> So, this is our kitchenette where we can, you know, take care of >> take care of business. >> Without food, there's no business. >> We all know that there's the to >> especially we have meetings with officials and so we have had nice events. And not only that, this is our garage. This garage fits eight ambulances. Summertime obviously most of the ambulances are out here um are taken out from here so that they can be spread around all over uh the cats. >> Wow. And we have about we have 15 ambulances that are stationed throughout the cats the entire summer so that we can get to any call >> very quickly. >> Wow. What's the average response time in the Cascals? >> You know, it's very hard to say an exact average, but >> for a member getting on onto a scene in in most areas, um, unless you're in a far-flung area, it's probably about 3 minutes and sometimes less >> that a member is on the scene. >> Emergency. Yeah, but it's >> this is um our search and rescue truck that we got brand new was donated last at the end of last summer and we have it fully stocked up with a bunch of specialized equipment for search and rescue which we get called a lot for people getting lost. You know, this is the country. People are always always going out on hikes. They're going out to the state forests, these huge parks. They're called parks, but their mom is huge forests and people are having a good time. But sometimes people make mistakes and when they make mistakes we have to come in and try to help find them. >> Wow. >> So we have a bunch of specialized equipment over here including the drones that we can help search for >> really >> people from the air. >> This we have three drones now and all three drones that we have >> um can sense heat thermal imaging cameras and night vision. >> Wow. >> So it helps us. So this garage is obviously used for uh multiple multiple duties. Obviously it houses ambulances. We also do training for the members here and we do CMEs which is lectures for the members. We have doctors come in here and give training to the members. This is the >> training equipment over here. Wow. If I got you grab a can of Coke. >> Exactly like these members now. Right now they're going to be going out on a long distance trip. They're going to be picking up a patient from Harris Hospital that needs to get transferred to Westchester to the trauma center. >> Wow. Unreal. Unreal. >> And when we talk about taking patients to long distance trips, you know, to specialty hospitals, we sometimes end up doing 10, 15 of these a day. Wow. I mean, the member gives away 5 6 hours a day. People people don't realize we do on average um 50 60 calls a day upstate and like I said like last Friday we did 87 calls there are call days weekends that we do eight of >> a Friday a Sunday we can sometimes go up to 60 70 80 calls so when the campaign goes live look at that this bus just rolled out two units it's how many miles just gas. >> So, just start with insurance. I don't know exactly how much it is, but to insure 20 ambulances with insurance and insurance for an ambulance is not just for the ambulance. It's liability insurance and there's like what they call medical malpractice insurance which gets built into all of that. So, it's a very expensive insurance. Insurance alone can probably be a half a million dollars. >> Wow. >> Just for just for the cat skills. So it goes all the way from insurance which is all the way up there in addition >> till the small teddy bear over here was get thousands of the patients and everything included >> here you can see our supply rooms where the members can come in. These are BLS supply rooms for the EMTs and we can take a look inside here. >> Wow. >> An idea what this looks like. It's a full stocked room everything. All this all this stocked fully. Wow. Wow. You don't miss a beat over here. Everything ready? And now we have the ALS stock room. Now the ALS stock room talking about on the ALS level, the paramedic level. Um you have also expensive medications. Some of them need to be locked up in refrigerator. Some of them are some of the control substances which are those are locked and every medic has it on their own person on their lock and key. These medications cost hundreds of dollars just one vial. Wow. Wow. I think the video and we make a campaign. Even guys in the city like we said your son is in a camp over here a family member. Oh, perfect place to stop. Here's the campaign. Everyone needs, everyone supports. I like that slogan. >> In order for us to be able to continue with this level of care, with this level of response and to save lives, to help now is the time that we need your support. >> We need your support. A million dollars for Cathula. A million dollars. Yes. 100%. So now it's important to know the million dollars doesn't even cover the entire budget. But we hope we'll make more than a million dollars, but we start off with a million dollars. We ask everybody to help us out. All the Bangala colonies, the developments, all the shields, everyone that's up here obviously understands what we do. But also the parents that send their children to camp upstate, the kids are here and everybody can sleep comfortably knowing that if anything happens, we're a phone call and a few minutes away. >> Wow. >> Um and people send their children here from camps not just from upstate, not just from the city. Um there are children that come to camps here from across the entire United States and even from overseas. So this is the opportunity for everybody to show hakura and support to allow us to continue to help you. >> Oh mine 100%. >> Yes. >> I would love to see the garage going up there. >> Let's go for a ride. >> Let's go truck one. >> How you going to get back? >> Okay. So we're here. So this intersection is a very famous intersection. This is Fraser Road, the corner of Anowana Lake Road. It's a busy intersection. This goes all ways. There are two big developments right here. Forest Park and um and Lake and this Forest Park and Parkside. >> Parkside. >> Beautiful developments over here. >> And the donor is here in Forest Park. >> Uhhuh. Aid that uh donated this garage with the land. I know he's not going to be happy if I say his name. So, we'll wait for a later date for that. >> Say his name. Stop passing your car of your drone unit. That means you got a drone in it. The famous the drone is in. >> So, we have one drone in here and two in the other truck that you saw. >> Wow. Wow. Wow. So, this is the upcoming garage, you know, end of the summer. But >> how many buses you going to store here? >> No, we have capable of keeping three here. Probably going to keep two buses and maybe some of the specialty equipment that we have. >> Maybe some of like the UTV. >> We have the boats. You have a boat also? No. >> Boats. We don't have >> not yet. >> Not yet. But the UTV is basically it's a ATV type vehicle, but it's closed. It has six wheels and it can actually carry a patient through >> off-road vehicle in the Virus. Yes. So, we now just got a beautiful brand new um delivered. It's going to be our second one. And this one actually has air condition and heat so we can use it winter or summer. Sometimes going into the woods, it's hot or it's freezing. >> So, it's uh >> and these equipment cost money. Also, we never want to be in a position to have to say if we would have had more money, we would have been able to buy this piece of equipment. >> Wow. >> We buy everything that we need and we ask you to please help us cover the funds needed in order to provide the best equipment so that we can provide the best care to the best people upstate. >> Okay. So, Kevin, the link off the screen over here. Please do it for yourself. Do it for your kids. Do it for your family. Do it for put a beautiful donation in over there. Park, shine, stock, full of gas and not to be needed. >> The best day of your life will be the old amy. >> Yeah, it's a sh the one day. >> Oh my heaven. This is the future home of a Cayamisha garage which will have over there on the right side of the building. The second floor is we're going to have two bedrooms so that paramedics that come up here will have a place with to sleep to take care of their needs over here do their business and be ready to take calls to cover calls year round. all year round. >> Every day. >> Wow. That bedroom with a normal place to sleep and to live. They don't have to come out to other places. >> Yes. Downstairs there's going to be, you know, a break room, a room where they can sit down, take care of business, stock their equipment. It's going to be some basic equipment here also. And looks like we might even put up a dispatch room here. We're going to wire it up now >> so that it should be ready because there are a lot of dispatches that >> spend their summers here and they can walk here on Chabas. gets difficult. You need to be walking distance. >> Wow. >> You pulled it off. and obviously health that um we should have a but we hope that and we know you know from previous years that the and supports us and we appreciate it and we want to thank everybody for the support the previous years and we're looking forward to that same and support again. Oh mine. [Music]