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<title>Top ten inappropriate quotes for on-the job use</title>
<author><![CDATA[Kelly Grayson]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ems1.com/ems-humor/articles/1424141-Top-ten-inappropriate-quotes-for-on-the-job-use/]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[March marked my twentieth anniversary in EMS. That's twenty years of continuous EMS employment, including a stint as an EMS bureaucrat. And in that time, I've had nineteen annual performance evaluations. That's nineteen wasted hours of my life I'll never get back.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:17:06 UTC</pubDate>

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<title> Fire prank video: Are these the cruelest friends ever? </title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ems1.com/ems-humor/articles/1419403-Fire-prank-video-Are-these-the-cruelest-friends-ever/]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[By EMS1 Staff Video shows two pranksters donning full-fledged firefighter gear storming their friend&#39;s room in the middle of the night tricking him into believing there is a fire in the home. The friend, sleeping, startled wakes up and sees glowing outside the door which is actually lights that the jokesters planted earlier. The fake firefighters tell their friend to stay put and put a towel on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:36:37 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Top 10 vaguely creepy ways to show your EMS partner you care</title>
<author><![CDATA[Kelly Grayson]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ems1.com/ems-humor/articles/1405183-Top-10-vaguely-creepy-ways-to-show-your-EMS-partner-you-care/]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[On this day, take a moment to let the person beside you know that you value and cherish them, especially if they’re good about cleaning the rig behind you and fronting you cash for a meal when you’re broke.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:44:03 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Top 10 best slogans for ambulances </title>
<author><![CDATA[EMS1 Staff]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ems1.com/ems-humor/articles/1404116-Top-10-best-slogans-for-ambulances/]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[This photo we came across while surfing the Web brought a smile to our face, so we had to share on our Facebook page. We asked our fans to tell us what slogan they&#39;d like to see on the back of their ambulance. Here&#39;s some of the best selections &mdash; be sure to add your own ideas to the member comments section. Photo imgur &quot;Nobody calls us cause they did something smart!&quot; &mdash; ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 8 Feb 2013 22:36:04 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Important memo from The EMS regarding influenza outbreak</title>
<author><![CDATA[Michael Morse]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ems1.com/ems-humor/articles/1404109-Important-memo-from-The-EMS-regarding-influenza-outbreak/]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[From The EMS Headquarters, Quantify, Virginia, Feb 02, 2013 Subject: Influenza Outbreak, 2013 To: All Field Operatives Attention All: The yearly influenza outbreak is upon us. This year&#39;s strain, the medialahooplatisis (media-la-hoopla-titis) is especially virulent. According to media sources, 34 states are inundated with influenza patients, with seven declaring medical emergencies and two under ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 8 Feb 2013 21:57:40 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Administrative Amnesia: New disease hits EMS</title>
<author><![CDATA[Kelly Grayson]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ems1.com/columnists/spoof-news/articles/1404099-Administrative-Amnesia-New-disease-hits-EMS/]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA &mdash; It started innocuously enough at an EMS staff meeting at Mercy Ambulance in Collier County, Ga. &quot;Our operations supervisor was explaining to us how administration calculates Unit Hour Utilization,&quot; said EMT Jonathan Davis, &quot;and he just froze up there with a dry erase marker in his hand, staring at the board like a duck in thunder. We thought he was just kidding around ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 8 Feb 2013 21:45:44 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>EMS agency deploys nation's first pain detection K-9</title>
<author><![CDATA[Greg Friese]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ems1.com/columnists/spoof-news/articles/1404082-EMS-agency-deploys-nations-first-pain-detection-K-9/]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[BASKERVILLE, Calif. &mdash; EMS officials, in cooperation with K9USATraining.com, introduced the newest member of the Baskerville EMS Agency to local media, elected officials and interested citizens this week. Sherlock, a rat terrier, has completed a rigorous training and certification program to become the first prehospital pain detection K-9. &quot;Sherlock is quite clever and has an amazing nose,&quot; ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 8 Feb 2013 21:15:25 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>EMS chief ponders use-of-force policies</title>
<author><![CDATA[EMS1 Staff]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ems1.com/columnists/spoof-news/articles/1403993-EMS-chief-ponders-use-of-force-policies/]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[By EMS1 Staff LOWER SLAUGHTERHOUSE, La. &mdash; An EMS chief is La. is proposing some radical measures to combat the hazards medics face on the job, from safety to mild inconvenience. Jealously eyeing his police counterparts in the idyllic town of Slaughterhouse, George Fongut is pushing to greatly expand the agency&rsquo;s policy on employing use-of-force measures. &quot;This has been a long time in ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 8 Feb 2013 19:03:05 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>The good, the bad and the ugly of 2012</title>
<author><![CDATA[Kelly Grayson]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ems1.com/columnists/kelly-grayson/articles/1385179-The-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-2012/]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[I figured with the Mayan Long Calendar ending on December 21, there wouldn't be a need for another year-in-review column, so I spent the days preceding the predicted Mayan Apocalypse stocking up on non-perishable food and ammunition, telling my supervisors what I really thought of them, and preparing to face the end of days with the love of my life, Christina Hendricks, by my side.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:55:17 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>'She digs me, I can tell'</title>
<author><![CDATA[Kelly Grayson]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ems1.com/columnists/kelly-grayson/articles/1353265-She-digs-me-I-can-tell/]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Kelly Grayson recounts a memorable call in this exclusive book excerpt from 'En Route: A Paramedic's Stories of Life, Death, and Everything in Between,']]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 9 Oct 2012 18:22:19 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Fire prank video: Are these the cruelest friends ever?</title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ems1.com/ems-humor/video/1428520-Fire-prank-video-Are-these-the-cruelest-friends-ever/]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Pranksters put on real turnout gear to trick their friend into believing there was a fire in the house ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 7 Apr 2013 17:04:55 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Are these the cruelest friends ever?</title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ems1.com/ems-humor/articles/1419403-Fire-prank-video-Are-these-the-cruelest-friends-ever/]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Pranksters put on real turnout gear to trick their friend into believing there was a fire in the house. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:55:22 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Funny paramedic commercial</title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ems1.com/ems-humor/video/1415671-Funny-paramedic-commercial/]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[A terribly funny call by a woman to the emergency services asking for an ambulance. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 8 Mar 2013 01:18:49 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Paramedic's surprise proposal</title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ems1.com/ems-humor/video/1405649-Paramedics-surprise-proposal/]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[A paramedic pretends to be a patient when he suddenly pops the question to his girlfriend! ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:39:06 UTC</pubDate>

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