Guilford County Emergency Services has been requested by the state to assist with the eastern wildland fires through the dispatch of  personnel and resources.  The Emergency Management Division has deployed staff to assist on the North Carolina office of Emergency Management Incident Management Team. The EMS Division has deployed personnel and apparatus to assist with field operations.

• Guilford County Emergency Management, at the request of North Carolina Emergency Management (NCEM), has deployed Ron Campbell, Emergency Management Coordinator, to serve on the NCEM Incident Management Team (IMT).  The NCEM-IMT is supporting operations at the Hyde County Base Camp which has been activated for the Evans Road Fire in Eastern North Carolina. The deployment began on June 15th and is expected to end on June 21st.
• Guilford County EMS, at the request of NC OEMS and NCEM, deployed (1) paramedic level ambulance to Hyde County to provide medical coverage for firefighting crews.  The Guilford crew provided medical stand-by coverage to the Structural Protection Task Force assigned to various areas of the fire for tactical operations; the task force consisted of county fire department staff and the NC Forestry Division.  Our crews had an uneventful deployment which began on Wednesday June 11th, and ended Sunday, June 15th at 12:30pm.

For more information on the Wildfire's impacts on the Triad, follow this link.