The stories behind Utah - Red Rock Readiness

• Red Rock Readiness: Utah's Song for Preparing a Remote Clinic — Utah - Red Rock Readiness follows a biomedical technician preparing a desert clinic's equipment ahead of need.

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With a case of bright lights and spare pins

A generator coughs in the shed shed

A little green signal blinks red

You point to the monitor, quiet and warm

I say we'll have it ready by the morn'

We make ready in the

Red Rock Country With a silence test where we know

Every sensor, circuit and battery

Has a life in the hands below I'm a biomedical technician on the long road

Keeping small town care alive

Utah, hold you wide open

The horizon will make these machines survive

I clean out the dust from the fan,

check the cables by hand and again,

calibrate pressure

against the high heat, mark each spare in a waterproof

sheet. The clinic smells like rain and steel

A child waits for the screen to heal

Outside a heart cuts across the stone

Inside, no one faces this alone

We make ready in the red rock country

With a silence test where we know

Every sensor, circuit and battery

Has a life in the hands below I'm a biomedical technician on the long road

Keeping small town care alive

Utah,

hold your wide open horizon

We'll make these machines survive

When the wash runs fast and the miles run wide

We carry the work on the inside

A tightened screw, a tested line

Can turn a worried room to a steady sign

We make ready in the red rock country

With the morning burning gold

Every sensor, circuit and battery

Is a promise we can hold I'm a biomedical technician on the long road

And the community stands beside

Utah Under your ancient ridges

We keep the vital signs alive

keep the vital signs alive

Red rock fades in the rearview glass

The clinic hums as the night winds pass

Utah stays written across the sky

Ready hands, ready hearts, ready lips