ATRs in Kentucky
In June 2006, at the first combined Kentucky State Fire School and Homeland Security Conference, ‘All Terrain Res-Q Trailers’ were introduced to fire and rescue personnel across the state. Known as an ‘ATR,’ the actual unit on display at the exhibits show was one of only ten ‘ATRs’ in seven states at the time. Now, just three short years later, there are 105 ‘All Terrain Res-Q Trailers’ serving in 35 US states, Canada, and the Bahamas. This number includes the 25TH ‘ATR’ in Kentucky just delivered to the Knott County Trail Riders Club. This private non-profit ATV club is working with three local volunteer fire - rescue departments by obtaining grants for the purchase of much needed off-road rescue equipment. After training at the Knott County ATV & Motorcycle Safety Training Center, club members will maintain the ‘ATR’ for use by area departments upon request.
ATRs in Fire - Rescue - EMS
To date, 46 ‘ATRs’ are in service with combined Fire - Rescue - EMS agencies from coast to coast. An additional 24 ‘ATRs’ are operated by independent EMS, EMA and/or rescue squads. Plus, 10 ‘ATRs’ are operated by private industrial or recreational facility (hike & ski resorts) supported emergency response teams.
ATRs in the Military
With 5 ‘ATR’ patient transport trailers in service at US military installations, and 2 others at a major US Veterans Affairs medical complex in Arizona, we’re proud to announce that ///EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT just exported our first ‘ATR’ to Canada. CANSOFCOM -- the ‘Canadian Special Forces Command’ recently equipped their paramedics with an ‘ATR’ for the transport of CF airborne troops injured during jump training. This ‘ATR’ is the second unit purchased specifically for rapid transportation of military personnel injured during parachute training; the first is located at a US DOD airborne training base in the southeastern US.
ATRs in Law Enforcement
As we complete our third year distributing the All Terrain Res-Q Trailer, we now have the first delivery of an ‘ATR’ for service with a law enforcement SWAT unit. Last month, the St. Charles County, Missouri, Sheriff’s Office Bureau of Special Enforcement placed an ‘ATR’ in service with the mission of transporting any bad guys taken down during off-road encounters with deputies. While this is the 6TH ‘ATR’ with a law enforcement agency, it’s the first assigned exclusively to SWAT. Other ‘ATRs’ with police or sheriff’s departments are primarily assigned to search and rescue, or emergency management divisions within these agencies.
ATR officially hits *100 units sold as of May 7, 2009!
Congratulations Ohio DNR! Officially, the ‘ATR’ ordered by Zeleski State Forest in southeastern Ohio became the 100TH ‘All Terrain Res-Q Trailer’ to go in service in less than four years on the interstate market. However, we wish to offer a heart felt thank you! to all 98 ‘All Terrain Res-Q’ users for their confidence and support of this product. (Now, *105 ‘ATRs’ purchased by 100 users, with 5 purchasing two units.) Without you, we could not have reached this important milestone.
Sullivan County EMS, in Tennesee, “slugs through the mud” with their ‘All Terrain Res-Q!’