CAMARILLO — Superheroes will descend from the roof of the Ventura County Medical Center on Halloween to bring cheer to children at the hospital’s pediatric and pediatric intensive care units.Members of the Ventura County Fire Department’s Urban Search and Rescue Team will don costumes and rappel from the hospital’s roof, stopping along the way to wave to pediatric patients and their parents. Afterwards, the superheroes will go inside the hospital to visit patients, parents and staff, while handing out coloring books, play packs and small gifts for the children.
Ventura County Medical Center, the west county’s designated level 2 trauma center, is home to a pediatric unit, the county’s first neo-natal intensive care unit and the only pediatric intensive care unit in the county.
Reporters and photographers are invited to cover the event. Set up will begin at 9 a.m. and the rappel is expected to start about 10 a.m.
- WHO: Ventura County Firefighters and children
- WHAT: Halloween superhero rappel
- WHERE: Ventura County Medical Center, 300 Hillmont Ave., Ventura, CA 93003
- WHEN: Tuesday, October 31. Set up begins at 9 a.m., rappel expected to start about 10 a.m.
- WHY: To bring a visual treat to hospitalized children who can’t go trick or treating
- HOW: Urban Search and Rescue team members will rappel from the hospital roof in superhero costumes, stopping along the way to greet pediatric patients.