Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2012 14:00:47 GMT -5
Red Cross Greater Chattanooga Area Hires
New Emergency Services Specialist
CHATTANOOGA, September 17, 2012 — The American Red Cross Greater Chattanooga Area has hired new Emergency Services Specialist, Jamie Lewis.
Jamie is a Southeast Tennessee native and has been in Public safety since 1992. He has been an active member of the West Polk County Fire and Rescue for twenty years. Lewis spent several years working for the Polk Co Sheriff's Office, Benton Police Department and the 10th Judicial Drug Task Force. After September 11th, he was a founding member of Tennessee Homeland Security and deputy Director of Emergency Management for Polk County, TN. Other accomplishments include, working for TN-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team, a federal disaster unit that deploys to natural or man-made disasters and assists local EMS systems and hospitals that are overwhelmed during disasters, being employed with Bradley County 911 for 11 years as a 911 Operator/ EMS Trainer and EMD Program Manager, working closely with all agencies that provided emergency medical services in Bradley County to re-organize the existing EMD program and develop a new Emergency Medical Dispatch program that was tailored to the local response needs of the community and better equipped dispatchers to handle life threatening emergencies over the phone until help could arrive, working for Life Force Air Medical in Chattanooga as a flight co-ordinator and communications specialist. We are very proud to have Jamie as part of the Red Cross team in East Tennessee where is coverage area includes Bradley, Polk, McMinn, Meigs and Monroe Counties.
Cheyenne Duffy
Communications Specialist
American Red Cross East Tennessee Region
6921 Middlebrook Pike
Knoxville, TN 37909
New Emergency Services Specialist
CHATTANOOGA, September 17, 2012 — The American Red Cross Greater Chattanooga Area has hired new Emergency Services Specialist, Jamie Lewis.
Jamie is a Southeast Tennessee native and has been in Public safety since 1992. He has been an active member of the West Polk County Fire and Rescue for twenty years. Lewis spent several years working for the Polk Co Sheriff's Office, Benton Police Department and the 10th Judicial Drug Task Force. After September 11th, he was a founding member of Tennessee Homeland Security and deputy Director of Emergency Management for Polk County, TN. Other accomplishments include, working for TN-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team, a federal disaster unit that deploys to natural or man-made disasters and assists local EMS systems and hospitals that are overwhelmed during disasters, being employed with Bradley County 911 for 11 years as a 911 Operator/ EMS Trainer and EMD Program Manager, working closely with all agencies that provided emergency medical services in Bradley County to re-organize the existing EMD program and develop a new Emergency Medical Dispatch program that was tailored to the local response needs of the community and better equipped dispatchers to handle life threatening emergencies over the phone until help could arrive, working for Life Force Air Medical in Chattanooga as a flight co-ordinator and communications specialist. We are very proud to have Jamie as part of the Red Cross team in East Tennessee where is coverage area includes Bradley, Polk, McMinn, Meigs and Monroe Counties.
Cheyenne Duffy
Communications Specialist
American Red Cross East Tennessee Region
6921 Middlebrook Pike
Knoxville, TN 37909