UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State Cooperative Extension is looking for people who have a strong knowledge of agriculture, as well as rescue and patient-care experience, to deliver a farm emergency response program to farmers, their families and their employees.

The Farm Family Emergency Response Program (formerly First-on-the-Scene for Farm Families) is designed to help farmers make critical decisions when they discover an injury emergency on their farm. Normally, when an emergency happens on the farm, someone from the farm will be the first to discover the incident. This usually results when the injured person does not show up when expected, and someone goes out and looks for them.

Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences is looking for the right people to take emergency- response training to the members of rural communities where it is needed most, says senior extension associate and program director Davis Hill, who is an expert at managing agricultural emergencies.

"Typical instructors for this program include cooperative extension educators, hospital personnel, agricultural teachers and emergency service trainers," says Hill. "Teachers with a strong knowledge of agricultural practices as well as rescue and patient care procedures make ideal instructors." He urges anyone interested in teaching the Farm Family Emergency Response Program to contact him at 814-865-2808 or by e-mail at http://agemergencies.cas.psu.edu.

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EDITORS: Contact Davis Hill at 814-865-2808 or by e-mail at deh27@psu.edu.

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