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EMS Week 2010: Vote for the Winner
May 16 - 22, 2010
We're proud to present the finalists for EMS1's "I Was There" EMS Week competition, selected by the EMS1 team. Chosen from nearly 100 entries, each of these represents the theme of EMS Week 2010: "Anytime. Anywhere. We'll be there." Please help choose the winner by doing the following:

1. Click on each entry window to view the full version
2. Place your vote by checking the box of your favorite
3. Click the "Vote Now" button at the bottom of the page to submit your vote

Finalist 1: A snowy Christmas Eve

 

Finalist 2: I am not a cretin

Name: Nathan Zecco

Service/Agency: Action Care Ambulance (Colo.)

Entry Type: Story

My partner grumbles as she brings us into the ER bay. Time to get another patient to take home. On this very cold and snowy, very unusual for us in New Mexico, Christmas Eve. "Why are we doing this again""I shake my head as we go inside and get our patient for the call, a very nice lady I've taken on several occasions for radiation appointments. But now we are called for something different ...
 

Name: Adam Thompson

Service/Agency: Lee County EMS (Fla.)

Entry Type: Story

I am but a mere individual amongst a whole world of professionals. I am a thrill seeker, but not the kind that jumps off cliffs with a self-packed parachute attached to his back. I am educated in my craft, and I do it well. Many, even with my hard earned five years of experience, could still consider me a rookie. I am an educator, but not a professor. An expert, but not a scientist. A manager, but I ...
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Finalist 3: Happy birthday!

 

Finalist 4: Moose 911

Name: Patrick Roberson

Service/Agency: Bledsoe Co Rescue Squad (Tenn.)

Entry Type: Story

My partner and I had become really close to a patient that we took to dialysis three times a week over several years. We knew that her birthday was coming up and decided to give her a surprise birthday party in the back of the unit. We took her to dialysis that morning without saying a word about her birthday. Upon return to the station we started getting things ready. Cake, balloons, streamers and ...
 

Name: Bob Kolva

Service/Agency: Newman Lake Fire and Rescue (Wash.)

Entry Type: Story

What began as a unique call rapidly turned bizarre. We were dispatched to rescue a man who had broken through spongy spring ice. We soon learned the man was not our victim but the rescuer, and our patient was not a man but a moose. We really do get the best calls. As we arrived we were greeted by a news crew and the Sherriff's Dive Rescue Team; our first clue that today was going to be anything but ...
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Finalist 5: The Cleveland school shooting, Stockton Calif.

 

Finalist 6: The field cat scan

Name: Bryan Donnelly

Service/Agency: Merced County Fire (Calif.)

Entry Type: Story

The Cleveland School massacre occurred on January 17, 1989, at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California. The gunman, Patrick Purdy who had a long criminal history, shot and killed five schoolchildren and wounded 29 other schoolchildren and one teacher before committing suicide. His victims were predominantly Southeast Asian refugees.I remember the Stockton Cleveland School shooting very well ...
 

Name: Eric Augustus

Service/Agency: Rural/Metro Ambulance (Oregon)

Entry Type: Story

My partner, Sean, and I had responded to a local Assisted Living Facility for a possible broken leg. In the patients' room, we found her on the couch, with her leg extended out and resting on the ottoman, with a staff member holding a bag of ice on the alleged injury. During the assessment, it became clear that a) she had tripped and injured her ankle, b) she had dementia, and c) it was not obvious ...
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