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PAGE & â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 25, 1987 | Volunteer firemen from 10 towns and villages in Waterloo Region velxetheir&tmdnytonmndnminingnusion pvvide:.by Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Regional Ambulance It was the first official ‘"Tiered Response System" traini session for the region. Training involves firstâ€"aid, CPR._-: basic ambulance procedures which result in a better working because the first emergency service at the scene can begin The tiered response system works by sending the ambuâ€" lance service, fire and police departments to every emergency requiring medical attention. A sixâ€"month test of the system in Cambridge has identified the strengths and weaknesses of the system. The dayâ€"long seminar at the firehall on Highland Road included an overview of CPR and new standards by Dianne Bauer, director of Waterloo Regional Heart Save, and a talk by James Mask from the Waterloo Regional Police on preserving the scene of an accident. Regional ambulance workers conducted the rest of the seminar. Paul Stack gave instruction on oxygen and using the equipment properly, Wendy Spiegelberg discussed comâ€" mon medical emergencies, and Sharon Klaver talked about getting patient data and information. They later held practical workshops which allowed about 30 volunteers to practice the skills they had been taught. They also practised assisting ambulance attendants with stretchers and stairâ€" chairs if a stretcher proved too awkward. Bauer described the volunteer firemen as "a dedicated lot" who do a lot of work. Spiegelberg later reiterated the sentiment when she said the volunteers take on extra work and take extra training and are very much involved in the community. Spiegelberg stressed that the volunteers don‘t have to attend the session; that it was on their own time â€" and they weren‘t getting paid. But all emergency service workers are special people. They talk about helping others and response times. They‘re careâ€" givers. On the street, any hour of the day, when time counts and conditions aren‘t the best. Diane Bauer is a registered nurse, "I like nursing but I like Heart Save better." And Wendy Spiegelberg was an ambulance attendant who later became a registered nurse because she was interested in helping people get better. She now teaches partâ€"time at Con:stoga College helping others become emergency services workers. Spiegelberg Bauer and others all stress the importance of community awareness and involvement. o â€" "You can have the best system in the world, but it won‘t work without community awareness," she said. Wayne Morris recently took over the Kitchenerâ€"WaterJoo Regional Ambulance Service. He left London after 11 years as an attendant and examiner for the Ministry of Health. Emergency workers are "there and gone," he said. It takes a special sort of person. If you don‘t react to what you see, if it doesn‘t affect you, then you shouldn‘t be there. Attendants deal with their feelings on their own, or in the station once it‘s all over." "Life goes on," he said, shrugging but the day it stops bothering you is the day you should leave." Tiered response training mobilizing a patient to a chair for later Sharon Klaver from Kitchenerâ€"Waterâ€" loo Ambulance Service performs CPR on Rick Hummel during a mock sceâ€" nario heid outside the ambulance staâ€" tion to demonstrate the difference between clinical environment and real life experience at an earlier training