Ridge Road Fire District

Rochester, NY

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Blood Pressure Screenings

Uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to complications including:

  • Heart attack or stroke. High blood pressure can cause hardening and thickening of the arteries (atherosclerosis), which can lead to a heart attack, stroke or other complications.
  • Aneurysm. Increased blood pressure can cause your blood vessels to weaken and bulge, forming an aneurysm. If an aneurysm ruptures, it can be life-threatening.
  • Heart failure. To pump blood against the higher pressure in your vessels, the heart has to work harder. This causes the walls of the heart’s pumping chamber to thicken (left ventricular hypertrophy). Eventually, the thickened muscle may have a hard time pumping enough blood to meet your body’s needs, which can lead to heart failure.
  • Weakened and narrowed blood vessels in your kidneys. This can prevent these organs from functioning normally.
  • Thickened, narrowed or torn blood vessels in the eyes. This can result in vision loss.
  • Metabolic syndrome. This syndrome is a cluster of disorders of your body’s metabolism, including increased waist circumference; high triglycerides; low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, the “good” cholesterol; high blood pressure and high insulin levels. These conditions make you more likely to develop diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
  • Trouble with memory or understanding. Uncontrolled high blood pressure may also affect your ability to think, remember and learn. Trouble with memory or understanding concepts is more common in people with high blood pressure.
  • Dementia. Narrowed or blocked arteries can limit blood flow to the brain, leading to a certain type of dementia (vascular dementia). A stroke that interrupts blood flow to the brain also can cause vascular dementia.*

 

The public is more than welcome to stop in to any of our stations for a blood pressure check.

 

*Source: Mayo Clinic

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Today students from the Greece Central School District's RTE (Responding to Emergencies) Program got the opportunity for a unique educational opportunity to see the "behind-the-scenes" operations of a crime scene.

Students were lucky to have Greece Police Officers Babock, Bachman, and Murray with Sergeant Rene teach them everything that is involved with law enforcement procedures at a crime scene.

Thank you to North Greece Fire District and Monroe Ambulance for the assistance with patient care re-enactment.
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Today students from the Greece Central School Districts RTE (Responding to Emergencies) Program got the opportunity for a unique educational opportunity to see the behind-the-scenes operations of a crime scene.  Students were lucky to have Greece Police Officers Babock, Bachman, and Murray with Sergeant Rene teach them everything that is involved with law enforcement procedures at a crime scene.  Thank you to North Greece Fire District and Monroe Ambulance for the assistance with patient care re-enactment.Image attachmentImage attachment
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Thank you for all you do to our dispatchers at Emergency Communications Department - 911 in Rochester, NY.

Happy National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week 2021!
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Rochester, NY 14626

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