By SUZANNE LA BARRE
Berkeley Daily Planet (California)
Some members of the Berkeley Fire Department may be operating with expired paramedic certification.
Berkeley Fire Department Chief Debra Pryor said Tuesday that the department is conducting a probe into the possible expiration of “some companion certificates” that are required of paramedics to perform emergency medicine in Alameda County.
In addition to standard state licensing and county accreditation requirements, Alameda County paramedics must maintain certification in advanced cardiac life support, advanced pediatric life support and prehospital trauma. The former two are renewable after two years; the latter after four years.
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