Spring Hill EMS launches ambulance simulator to train members

Sir, we're going to help you breathe, okay? Issues breathing need a real-life emergency response. His O2 sat dropped again. Spring Hill EMS members will practice those important life-saving skills and more inside their new ambulance simulator training room. There's a saying that you don't rise to the occasion, you fall to the level of your training. So this helps raise that bar for our members. President Akiva Zaydel showing News 12 the replica ambulance and mannequin that can breathe. Talk, sweat, bleed, and respond to what they do. We're getting real-time feedback from the mannequin if the compressions are deep enough, if they're fast enough. Technology that will ultimately serve the public as an agency that responds to about 8,500 calls a year. Great work team. He has a pulse from a simple, you know, regular call to something that might be very complex that most providers may not see on the regular, but we're able to provide that for them. Rebecca Finney will oversee training sessions here. In the controlled environment. We want for crews to be able to get the practice on it in a situation that's manufactured and not as high-stress chaotic, so when you are on an actual call and things go wrong, things change on the moment. They have the practice to fall back on and to do things appropriately. In New Hempstead, Rockland County, Diane Caruso, News 12.