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Photo courtesy of Lori Tyler, Central Emergency Services |
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The CES Chaplain's role is to support the needs of
all CES personnel and the community that CES services. The Chaplain is
on-call on a twenty-four hour basis and typically responds to situations
such as: a working structure fire; an injury to or death of any
emergency personnel; an incident involving a victim that is a member of
a department member's family; an incident where care is needed for the
family of the victim while treatment is underway; the victim or the
family requests the services of a chaplain or clergy; or a possible or
probable death. |
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| The Chaplain is also available to visit
hospitalized department members and members of their families,
participate in recruit training as requested by the training officer,
help or counsel members of the department in times of stress or
difficulty, attend fire department functions, conduct funeral/memorial
services as needed and requested, and serve as a member of the Critical
Incident Stress Debriefing Team. |
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| The Chaplain's duties include the comfort and
counsel of victims or their families, providing appropriate victim
assistance to free operational personnel for firefighting and EMS
duties, referrals to appropriate community agencies for assistance, and
help to contact next of kin, family members, etc. In all cases, the
Chaplain will first find a victim's church or religious preference and
attempt to notify the pastor, spiritual leader or church of the victim.
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