​MCFR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE

The EMS/ambulance service has its own enterprise fund supported by user fees and county interlocal agreements. The Miles City Fire & Rescue employees, full and part-paid, volunteer their own time to receive EMS training. All of the full-time Miles City Fire & Rescue employees have earned the ECP (Emergency Care Provider) certification, which means some can provide advanced life support (ALS) services for critically injured patients. In addition, one full -time Miles City Fire & Rescue employee serves as the EMS training coordinator.

EMS provided by Miles City Fire & Rescue to the community includes:

  • 24-hour emergency ambulance service to the City of Miles City
  • 24-hour emergency ambulance service to Custer County
  • Fully-equipped ALS ambulances (these ambulances contain equipment for responding to major medical emergencies)
  • Stand-by EMS provided for special events (i.e., rodeos, motocross races, sporting events, Bucking Horse Sale, etc.)
  • Provide inter facility transfers throughout the region
  • Perform public assists
  • Provides mutual aid to surrounding  areas
  • Maintain and perform daily, weekly, monthly, and annual checks on ambulances and ambulance equipment
  • Provide weekly EMS training for continuing education hours (forty-eight hours are required every 2 years)
  • Provide an ECP refresher course once a year
  • Provide EMS training for surrounding communities
  • Attend specialized training at locations other than Miles City and Custer County
  • Grant writing for EMS funding
  • Provide paramedic-level response on a limited basis
  • Transitioning to be a full paramedic-level EMS service
YOUR CHOICE PROGRAM
Every few years, staff and students from Miles City Fire & Rescue, Custer County Fire Department, and Custer County District High School, along with other healthcare and emergency response agencies, gather to host a “mock car crash” at the local high school to illustrate the dangers of distracted and/or impaired driving (based on that year’s theme).  One or two damaged vehicles are staged in front of the school and filled with student actors (who serve as simulated “patients”) before the rest of the student body is called to watch as emergency responders arrive on scene in a realistic fashion and begin assessing and treating “patients.”  The entire scene is narrated to help the students understand what is occurring and to drive home the impacts and simulated “fatalities” and “injuries” that may occur to themselves or others as a result of their choices when driving.  Past participants, among others, include Holy Rosary Healthcare, St. Vincent Healthcare HELPFlight, Custer County Sheriff’s Office, and the Miles City Police Department.