The National EMS Museum Foundation will be hosting a Traveling Museum exhibit at this week’s EMS Expo in Orlando, Florida. The exhibit, at booth #994, will feature a fully restored 1972 Dodge Ambulance as well as interviews with some of the pioneers and current leaders in EMS.
Other display items include the “Code-in-a-Can” which was carried by Medics in Urbandale, Iowa during the Pope’s visit and Mass in 1977, and a 10 X 8, high quality photo display depicting the history of ambulance evolution and a few of the individuals instrumental in the growth of EMS through the years. NEMSMF sincerely appreciates and thanks the Virginia Association of Volunteer Rescue Squads, Inc, the parent organization for the museum, for allowing the National EMS Museum to be the umbrella for these many historical pieces, insuring a part of EMS history was not lost.
Included in this display will be artifacts from the Julian Wise Foundation’s “To The Rescue Museum” formally in Roanoke, Va., which was forced to close. There will also be some items from 9/11, the 1st LifePak 33, the Pulsonator-a precursor to the Thumper, books, articles, toys, pictures and numerous other pieces of EMS history.
The NEMSMF Board of Trustees will be holding its first annual board meeting in room 305B on Thursday, October 11, from 10am-12noon. This meeting will recap the progress made over this past year, announce the seating of the advisory board members appointed in August and elect 5 additional board members to fulfill the bylaw requirement of 15 members of the Board of Trustees.
For more information, contact:
Jules Scadden, NREMT-P
Secretary-Board of Trustees
National EMS Museum Foundation, Inc
scadden@nemsmf.org
www.nemsmf.org