What is Hatzoloh?
Hatzoloh responds to the emergency medical needs of this community in Toronto.
What is the Jewish community?
Hatzoloh first started in this city and borough in the United States.
What is Williamsburg, New York?
This is the first thing the Hatzoloh dispatcher asks when you call.
What is "What is your emergency?"
Hatzoloh responders use this device to communicate with the dispatcher and each other.
What is a walkie-talkie?
The student who gave this speech has a dad who does this role in Hatzoloh.
What is a Hatzoloh responder?
Unlike 911, Hatzoloh can arrive at your door in this amount of time.
About 2 minutes on avg
Hatzoloh was founded in this year.
What is 1965?
After the dispatcher sends the emergency to responders, they ask for this.
What is a backup unit?
Responders carry this bag to help someone who is injured and bleeding.
What is a trauma bag / trauma kit?
When the speaker's dad gets a call, he grabs these four things before heading out.
What are his bag, walkie-talkie, ID, and Hatzoloh jacket?
Hatzoloh will respond to emergencies for this group of people not just Jewish people.
What is everyone / whoever calls them?
Hatzoloh came to Toronto in this year.
What is 1998?
Hatzoloh operates this many hours a day and days a week.
What is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
This life-saving device shocks the heart and is carried by every Hatzoloh responder.
What is a semi-automatic defibrillator?
Something amazing happened when the speaker's dad and two uncles were all Hatzoloh members; they all ended up here together.
What is on the same call?
When you call Hatzoloh, they also call these three services at the same time.
What are fire, police, and ambulance?
Toronto Hatzoloh serves the neighbourhoods around these streets.
What are Eglinton, Sheppard, Allen Road, and Avenue Road?
Hatzoloh responds to this many calls each year in Toronto.
What is 1,500 to 2,000?
Hatzoloh volunteers get their ID number based on this.
What is where they live / their location?
One way kids can support Hatzoloh when they get older is by doing this.
What is volunteering as a responder, dispatcher, or paramedic?
This is why the minutes before the ambulance arrives are so important.
What is they can save a life?
Hatzoloh New York holds this special title in North America, and was also first on scene at this tragic event.
What is the largest volunteer ambulance service, at the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001?
A volunteer goes through this many hours of training before becoming a Hatzoloh responder.
What is approximately 250 hours?
These special Hatzoloh units carry medications and have extra training, and go by this name.
What is ALS(Advanced Life Saving units)?
To become a Hatzoloh volunteer, you go through training in this order of three stages.
What is observer, then backup, then responder?