Sep 6, 2019 | EMT/Paramedic, Fire
Edward Gaicki, a six-year firefighter and paramedic, had gone into a commercial building to search for people and fight a massive four-alarm blaze when the roof collapsed on him, and he died. He had been nominated for the Tempe Jaycees’ Outstanding Young Firefighter...
Aug 7, 2019 | EMT/Paramedic
Aug. 8, 2018—Debbie Vass, director of quality initiatives at Sunstar Paramedics and parent company PatientCare, was honored with an Excellence in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Award from the Florida Department of Health. Vass received the Larry S. Jordan EMS Hall...
Jul 18, 2019 | EMT/Paramedic, Fire
The ‘father of modern EMS’ His 2004 Los Angeles Times obituary described Jim Page as “widely viewed as the most influential proponent of emergency medical services, particularly in fire departments.”2 Few figures accomplished more in the advance of American EMS....
Jun 23, 2019 | EMT/Paramedic
JASPER, Alabama [October 12, 2014] – For a few hours Saturday morning, Cameron Padbury wasn’t sure he would ever see his three young children again. A paramedic for 18 years, it wasn’t the first life-and-death situation the 37-year-old Jasper man...
Jun 10, 2019 | EMT/Paramedic, Fire
On Sunday, July 20, 2014, First Assistant Chief EMT Joel Melamed and his son, firefighter Andrew of the Albertson Fire Company, were off duty and relaxing on a boat in the Great South Bay off of Long Island. A mayday call for assistance came over the marine radio...
May 2, 2019 | EMT/Paramedic, Fire
There weren’t many women firefighters when Linda Long, now 54, was a kid, but the first time she sat in a fire truck she knew she wanted to be a firefighter. So, when Long turned 18, she tried to join Fort Washington Volunteer Fire Company. She began going to training...
