EMS Heroes
The EMS heroes topic covers articles and recent news about EMS providers that go above and beyond the call of duty.
My husband, who is 鈥淐alled to Care,鈥� inspires me and others to save life鈥檚 most precious moments
Being 鈥淪tronger Together鈥� is about service to others and to the community
The world needs more heroes, like Richard Ponikiewski and Ronnie Ferguson, ready and willing to lend their helping, knowledgeable hands
Destiny York was on her way home from shopping for her unborn son when she got into a car crash
Janie Hall, a former respiratory therapist with experience in a trauma unit, began CPR after her date fell face-first to the floor
The paramedic ran across the street and found a 2-year-old child on the ground
Samantha Diaz helped arrange a flight from Destin to Louisville with a private pilot who flew the two teens back to Kentucky in his jet
San Diego firefighter/paramedic Ben Vernon used his time in the hospital recovering from a stabbing to lobby for a rescue air mattress
Zahrah Ibrahim was keeping score at a championship basketball game when she noticed her family panicking
Randolph Mantooth, who portrayed Johnny Gage, said responders saved his sister鈥檚 life in a 1987 car crash
Efforts to aid 3-year-old Raymond Tiberia were called a 鈥減erfect storm,鈥� because it seemed like everything was working against the rescue crews
Todd Zobrist and Ty Barr, with Highland Fire-EMS, and police officers Sgt. Aric Steinbeck, Shawn Bland, Heather Kunz and Chris Clewis were recognized
Stewart Graham took a CPR course in college, but never had to put the skill to use
Aaron Davis-Quinn took off his belt and used it as a makeshift tourniquet on a man鈥檚 arm
The supervisor was driving home when he noticed a vehicle leave the road near an intersection
Actors, actresses and Broadway stars are using their celebrity power to keep Yadira Arroyo鈥檚 memory alive
Michael Patrick was on assignment at the Dollywood theme park when he collapsed
EMS professionals from around the world are encouraged to join the social media conversations on what it means to be #EMSSTRONG
Another cat and a turtle were also saved; no one else was injured
EMS providers will be trained in basics of dog emergency medical response
Paramedic Todd Zobrist administered CPR on the hood and swam the child to shore; the baby is expected to make a full recovery
Ricardo Martinez was 20 when he got his first job as a 911 dispatcher; he quickly found out that the job wasn鈥檛 going to get easier but harder
Tonya Caver had an asthma attack and bronchial spasm; Logan called 911 after she collapsed
UPS driver Kenneth 鈥淩obbie鈥� Belew was credited with saving the life of a domestic violence victim and a child
Autumn Denyer received CPR training as a high school freshman; she said saving the man pushed her interest back to the health field
鈥�4.1 miles,鈥� an Oscar-nominated documentary short film, shows a single day of rescues of Syrian migrants attempting to cross the sea from Turkey to Greece
Supervisor Josh Brumwell said the bicyclist broke down at the scene, saying it was his only form of transportation
Accessible bus is used to transport wheelchair and ambulatory residents on a nightly tour of the Glittering Lights display at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Kaheem, 5, who is battling leukemia, started out his dream-come-true day on a Montgomery County fire truck
Dolores Miozza offered to give the two paramedics money for the cake, but they turned her down
Firefighter Jose Zambrano said he hopes his 鈥渟pecial kind of crazy鈥� will support his effort to raise money for St. Jude Children鈥檚 Research Hospital
Peter Amato fought through blankets of snow to transport a woman awaiting a kidney transplant, a gift his brother had received 18 years ago
As the students piled out of their vehicle to help, paramedic and professor David Fifer鈥檚 first worry was for their safety
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