Category Archives: Community News

Spring Brings Increased Call Volume to Cooper Landing

As temperatures begin to warm and daylight hours extend more than 15 hours per day, CLES has experienced a sharp increase in call volume during the month of April. On April 17th, CLES was dispatched to a reported fully involved structure fire in the 34000 block of the Seward highway as mutual aid to Moose […]

GEARING UP FOR SUMMER: On The Trail to Rescue

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Donated equipment gives CLES new capabilities! With the snow melting and cabin fever in full swing, it’s easy to think about getting out and hitting the trails for hiking, biking and more. As visitors come to the Cooper Landing area, they can choose from a number of trails to take them up peaks and to […]

Treating Patients Across the Lifespan

Every time the dispatch tones alert, we do not know if we are responding to an elderly person who fell, an adult having a heart attack, or a small child hit by a car. At Cooper Landing Emergency Services, we have to be prepared to manage patients across the lifespan from newborn infants to the […]

CLES Embarks on Community Paramedicine Program

Initially conceived of as a method to address healthcare needs of underserved rural populations, mobile integrated healthcare and community paramedics and is a new model of inter-Dash professional, community-based outpatient healthcare delivery that utilizes the resources and training of EMS to fill gaps in local healthcare infrastructure expanding existing scopes of practice in most cases […]