HERO needs Equipment to Respond

Statistical studies indicate that  the long-overdue "Big One" will result in 10 - 15 residents needing hospitalization, 200 to 300 requiring First Aid, and one major fire. Local hospitals say it may be 1 to 3 days before they can take new patients. Therefore HERO will need Life-Support equipment in addition to fire containment, rescue and First Aid equipment.  

Funding for HERO's initial training equipment and supplies were acquired via a $3000 grant from Hilltop Neighbors Association and a $2000 loan from founder Bill Pope.
HERO now needs to acquire additional equipment and supplies to serve you. 

To donate, please send a check  payable to:
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          Hilltop Emergency Response Organization 
         3277 Inglewood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90066 

Equipment recently acquired with your donations:​

• Airway manual suction pumps, 3.
• Nasopharyngeal and Oropharyngeal Airway Kits, 3 sets each.
• Bag-Valve-Mask Resuscitators, 3 sets.
• First-Responder Oxygen Kits with 625 Litter "Jumbo D" tanks, 3 built by Bill Pope for @ $120 each verses $260 each from vendors.
• Fractured Limb vacuum splints, ​1 set of 3 sizes.
• Full-body vacuum splint mattress, 1.
• Helmet Lamps, 20.
• Exam gloves.
• Saline IV, 1 set (for use by MDs and RNs.)
• Replaced some out-dated First Aid Supplies.

Additional Equipment and Supplies needed to serve Hilltop Residents:

• EMS Trauma Bags, 2 @ $35, for field First Aid supplies.
• Fire Extinguishers 4-A:60-B:C, 6 @ $65 each, for stopping small fires before they become big fires.
• Fractured Limb vacuum splints, 1 additional set @ $70 each
• Full-body vacuum splint mattresses, 2 additional @ $160 each.​
• Scoop Stretcher for patient extraction without having to logroll them, $350
• ​Wound irrigation syringes, 100 @ $1 each.​​

Optional Equipment Recommended by HERO:

• Water Curtain System, $1500 to prevent a fire from spreading if we have water pressure.
• Barricade Foam System $8500 to prevent a fire from spreading if we do not have water pressure.
• Automated External Defibrillator (AED) $1300 for stopping injury or stress-induced Ventricle Fibrillation before is causes death.
• Rapid Extraction patient carrier (RexEMS) $1500 to increase the number of casualties our rescuers can carry.