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EMS News Headlines

• Video: Del. rescuers work to save man from fatal trench
• Detroit budget cuts EMS jobs4
• Crews tear house apart to rescue UK's biggest teen
• Ambulance crews fight to be primary provider in Pa.
• Colo. kids honored for conduct with 911 dispatcher
• Bystanders, responders rescue man from Ala. pool wreck
• Doctors report rise in kids eating detergent packs
• Telemetry helps Utah crews, EDs beat cath-time guidelines
• Dispatchers' CPR coaching: saving lives when every minute counts

• How I've been celebrating EMS Week 2012
• Mich. agencies use new tech to aid responses
• Ill. rescue squad accused of harassment in lawsuit
• 1 dead, 12 hurt in explosion at Ill. firm
• 15 hurt when Mass. van rolls
• Maine town to decide to keep new EMS service
• FEMA Deputy Administrator praises EMS
• DC firefighters fall ill after hazmat call
• Ga. woman with flesh-eating disease sits up in chair
• EMSA board votes to pursue investigative state audit in Okla.
• Philadelphia honors 'Paramedic of the Year'

• 5 tips for passing the NREMT
• Basic airway management techniques
• NY law would increase penalty for killing first responders 4
• 3 climbers die on Mount Everest, two still missing
• 3 drivers hurt in Md. horse race accident
• Maine fire department to seek emergency medical response license
• Mass. paramedic testimony implicates suspect in slaying
• 3 hurt in Mass. hazmat incident
• Fla. firefighter saves infant son from pool
• Man rescued after Niagara Falls plunge
• Nat'l medicine shortage impacts EMS in Pa.
• 911 operator falls asleep during call in Md. 12

• EMS Week Contest: The best of humanity in the worst of times
• EMS Week Contest: My calling started with my father1
• EMS Week Contest: Trusting in a stranger
• EMS Week Contest: The moment she said 'hi'
• EMS Week Contest: As others ran, I gave my friend a chance
• "More than a job. A calling": An accurate slogan?4
• Prove it: Supraglottic airway insertion is easier than endotracheal intubation for pediatric patients2
• Connected traffic system for emergency responders demonstrated near Phoenix
• EMS Week Contest: 'You are the man who saved my life'
• New EMS mobile training unit in Alberta
• Emergency traffic light switch for responders coming to Calif.
• Nationally standardized driver training: The time is now
• Drill helps prepare Idaho emergency crews
• Unfaithful UK widower awarded damages from 'negligent' paramedics1
• Pa. EMS: More than meets the eye
• Mass. paramedic testifies in murder trial
• Rescuers free man stuck overnight in Iowa cave
• 9/11 memorial dedicated in Pa.
• Service automates calls for Serbian EMS
• Joplin commemorates anniversary of deadly tornado
• Medevac pilot dodges military jets
• SD county questions need for ambulance district
• Review: Nearly 4 of 5 Mich. fire calls are now medicals

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Line-Of-Duty Deaths

• G. Marshall Sanford - 04/16/2012 - [Redding, Connecticut]
• Peter Carbonneau - 04/09/2012 - [Van Buren, Maine]
• Joshua Weissman - 02/10/2012 - [Alexandria, Virginia]

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