EMS hero of the week: Medic refuses to leave patient with grenade in leg
Ala. medic Cameron Padbury showed bravery and commitment to patient care when a transport quickly turned into a life-threatening situation
View ArticleHero of the Week: EMT treats lightning-strike survivor in pouring rain
Jessica Galvin made the life-saving call to treat him on the scene; she is the first woman to receive her community's local EMT of the Year award
View ArticleHero of the week: Medic refuses to leave patient with grenade in leg
Ala. medic Cameron Padbury showed bravery and commitment to patient care when a transport quickly turned into a life-threatening situation
View ArticleHero of the Week: EMT treats lightning-strike survivor in storm
Jessica Galvin made the life-saving call to treat him on the scene; she is the first woman to receive her community’s local EMT of the Year award
View ArticleEMS hero of the week: Firefighter vows to fight brain cancer
He's battling the same type of brain cancer that led 29-year-old Brittany Maynard to end her own life, sparking a national debate about 'Death with Dignity' laws
View ArticleHeros of the Week: Medics repel down 230-foot cliff to rescue boy
After scaling the cliff, medic Marco Barros told 4-year-old Sebastion Johnson to think of Spiderman as he loaded the boy into a rescue basket
View ArticleHero of the Week: Medics rappel down 230-foot cliff to rescue boy
After scaling the cliff, medic Marco Barros told 4-year-old Sebastion Johnson to think of Spiderman as he loaded the boy into a rescue basket
View ArticleHero of the Week: Responders carry patient in snow
They carried the patient down snowbound streets for about a mile to the hospital
View ArticleHero of the Week: EMS providers sing to scared child
The child became “quite frightened;" moments later the clinical manager saw all three “gathered around the gurney and serenading the little one”
View ArticleHero of the Week: Medic puts out fire station arson
The on-call medic’s quick response saved the station, and a firefighter trapped inside
View ArticleEMS Hero of the Week: Medic starts fund to save family's Christmas
After getting his own financial problems in order, he's paying it forward by raising more than $1,000 so far for a struggling family
View ArticleHero of the Week: EMS service helps the homeless
They launched a program where employees stocked bags containing items like soap and Band-Aids to keep on ambulances and hand out to those in need
View ArticleHero of the Week: EMT starts career at 52, inspires others
Rather than retiring, former Air Force reservist and highway patrol trooper Don Hennessy became an EMT
View ArticleHero of the Week: EMT uses blanket as makeshift stretcher
He dragged the cardiac patient more than a quarter mile to the nearest ambulance during a response to to a 30-car pileup in New Jersey.
View ArticleHero of the Week: Girl helps medics with sign language
A 10-year-old noticed the victim of a car crash appeared to be deaf, and ran over to help medics communicate with the injured woman
View Article911 dispatcher breaks protocol to save baby’s life
He gave CPR instructions over the phone despite the police department’s lack of emergency medical dispatch certification
View ArticleHero of the Week: Medic squeezes through ‘wee hopper window’ to save woman
The door was bolted, so he wiggled through an eight-inch opening to rescue an elderly woman who fell and was hypothermic
View ArticleHero of the Week: 11-year-old saves dad
He started performing CPR, stayed calm and called for help when is father collapsed with a heart attack
View ArticleHero of the Week: Man dies shoveling roof, responders finish job
After cardiac arrest resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful, EMS, police and fire personnel returned to the patient home to finish his shoveling off the roof
View ArticleHero of the Week: Ambulance charity helps terminally ill patients
This week, our EMS Hero goes to the Ambulance Wish Foundation (Stichting Ambulance Wens) a Netherlands charity that has granted nearly 6,000 wishes since it Kees Veldboer founded it in 2007. We were...
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