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Botetourt County Emergency Services (abbreviated BCES) is a fire and rescue department supplemented by volunteers and career staff. The department provides fire suppression, emergency medical services

Emergency medical services

Emergency medical services are a type of emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care and/or transport to definitive care, to patients with illnesses and injuries which the patient, or the medical practitioner, believes constitutes a medical emergency...

, technical rescue

Technical rescue

Technical rescue refers to those aspects of saving life or property that employ the use of tools and skills that exceed those normally reserved for fire fighting, medical emergency, and rescue. These disciplines include rope rescue, swiftwater rescue, confined space rescue, ski rescue, cave rescue,...

, hazardous material cleanup, water rescue

Swiftwater rescue

Swiftwater rescue is a subset of technical rescue dealing in whitewater river conditions. Due to the added pressure of moving water, swiftwater rescue involves the use of specially trained personnel, ropes and mechanical advantage systems that are often much more robust than those used in standard...

, life safety education

Fire safety

Fire safety refers to precautions that are taken to prevent or reduce the likelihood of a fire that may result in death, injury, or property damage, alert those in a structure to the presence of a fire in the event one occurs, better enable those threatened by a fire to survive, or to reduce the...

, and fire prevention

Fire prevention

Fire Prevention is a function of many fire departments. The goal of fire prevention is to educate the public to take precautions to prevent fires, and be educated about surviving them. It is a proactive method of reducing emergencies and the damage caused by them. Many fire departments have a Fire...

to Botetourt County

Botetourt County, Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 30,496 people, 11,700 households, and 9,114 families residing in the county. The population density was 56 people per square mile . There were 12,571 housing units at an average density of 23 per square mile...

, Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

. Emergency medical services include advanced life support

Advanced Life Support

Advanced Life Support is a set of life-saving protocols and skills that extend Basic Life Support to further support the circulation and provide an open airway and adequate ventilation .-Components of ALS:These include:...

and basic life support

Basic life support

Basic life support is the level of medical care which is used for patients with life-threatening illnesses or injuries until the patient can be given full medical care at a hospital. It can be provided by trained medical personnel, including emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and by...

responses by ALS capable ambulance

Ambulance

An ambulance is a vehicle for transportation of sick or injured people to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury, and in some instances will also provide out of hospital medical care to the patient...

s and response vehicles.

Stations

Station	Location	Fire Apparatus						EMS Capabilities
Station	Location	Engine	Wagon	Ladder	Tanker Water tender A water tender, also known as a tanker in some regions, is a specialized firefighting apparatus designed for transporting water from a water source to a fire scene...	Squad Squad truck A Squad Truck is a rescue vehicle designed to transport the necessary tools, equipment, and personnel to perform a vehicle extrication at the scene of an entrapment.- Vehicle construction :...	Brush	ALS Advanced Life Support Advanced Life Support is a set of life-saving protocols and skills that extend Basic Life Support to further support the circulation and provide an open airway and adequate ventilation .-Components of ALS:These include:...	BLS Basic life support Basic life support is the level of medical care which is used for patients with life-threatening illnesses or injuries until the patient can be given full medical care at a hospital. It can be provided by trained medical personnel, including emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and by...
Station 1	Blue Ridge Blue Ridge, Virginia Blue Ridge is a census-designated place in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States. The population was 3,188 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...	X	X			X	X	X	X
Station 2	Troutville Troutville, Virginia Troutville is a town in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States. The population was 432 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...	X	X		X	X	X	X	X
Station 3	Buchanan Buchanan, Virginia Buchanan is a town in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,233 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Buchanan is located at ....	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Station 4	Fincastle Fincastle, Virginia Fincastle is a town in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States. The population was 353 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Botetourt County.Fincastle is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...	X	X		X	X	X
Rescue 4	Fincastle							X	X
Station 5	Eagle Rock Eagle Rock, Virginia Eagle Rock is an unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States, located on the James River between Iron Gate and Buchanan, Virginia.-Geography:Eagle Rock is located at . Its elevation is .-History:...	X	X		X		X	X	X
Station 6	Glen Wilton Glen Wilton, Virginia Glen Wilton is an unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States....		X		X		X	X	X
Rescue 7	Countywide		X					X	X
Station 12	Read Mountain Bonsack, Virginia Bonsack is an unincorporated community in eastern Roanoke County, Virginia, United States. The community is divided by Route 220 which later junctions with U.S. 460....	X	X				X	X	X

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