Community Awareness
Explore our directory of articles on Community Awareness in EMS, designed to help professionals engage and educate the public about emergency services and safety practices. This collection covers public outreach, safety campaigns, and partnerships with community organizations. Building community awareness is essential for fostering trust and cooperation between EMS providers and their communities. For related insights, check out our resources on Community. Enhance your community engagement strategies with expert-driven content.
Share these resources with your community members so they are better prepared to prevent and respond to drowning incidents
Inspiring ways to recognize providers鈥� contributions, educate the community and recruit the next generation
This year鈥檚 EMS Week theme is 鈥淲e care. For everyone.鈥� How is your agency honoring your service?
Over 142 million people across the U.S. have been under heat alerts
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea responded negatively to the proposal of having lifeguards on duty following the death of a 7-year-old girl buried in the sand
Phoenix firefighters found the boy one mile up the trail, where he was having a heat-related emergency, and performed life-saving measures on him
Rick Gilbert, Milton Hershey School senior director of campus safety, shares his strategy
Drowning is the second leading cause of death among children 5 and younger
St. Petersburg and Denver officials see success in new responses to behavioral health calls
Officials in Kern County say over 40% of their calls are bogus or don鈥檛 warrant a response
School鈥檚 curriculum, internship program prepared teen to properly react in critical moment
Morris Hospital鈥檚 Camp911 introduced children to careers in fire, EMS, law enforcement and emergency communications
鈥淲atch your kids around water鈥� is the Phoenix FD鈥檚 latest social media post to keep citizens safe
Reedsburg Ambulance paramedics will be notified when the system is used and will transport the infant to Reedsburg Area Medical Center for evaulation
Disaster preparation for a flood includes gathering necessities, relying on local media sources and being aware of the dangers rising waters bring
Agencies across the state are letting citizens know about outage
As you ready yourself and your community for a heat wave, keep these tips in mind
Surge of recent drownings puts the state on pace to break a record number of fatalities in 2022
A long duration heat wave across the country is expected to last into Friday
Answers from a survey sent to Montgomery County residents will be used to create an EMS strategic plan
Funds for Evanston鈥檚 Crisis Alternative Response Evanston team will help enhance mental health interventions
Officials in Jeffersonville hired a firm to look at the city providing its own ambulance service
Skagit County has begun using PulsePoint Respond and PulsePoint AED to improve the use of bystander CPR
The fire department鈥檚 PSA to outdoor enthusiasts went viral on social media as temperatures soared above 100 degrees in Arizona
Fentanyl accounted for 79% of overdose deaths in 2023
Sedgwick County officials approved funding for a new EMS station west of Wichita
Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown鈥檚 move will add patrols to an area where drug users openly smoke fentanyl
Drowning is the number one cause of death in children 1-4 years old
Undocumented, unathorized expenditures and inadequate financial record-keeping some of the 10 findings inside the Plains Volunteer Ambulance Relief Association
SGMC Health鈥檚 EMS system responds to over 23,000 911 calls across three counties
Training involves 31 school districts across five counties to prepare students for a career in EMS
Paramedic Rachel Brady finds multiple ways to help others as medic, flight nurse and diver
Delco Revive provides free training and materials to respond to an overdose
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