Community Awareness
Explore our directory of articles on Community Awareness in EMS, designed to help professionals engage and educate the public about emergency services and safety practices. This collection covers public outreach, safety campaigns, and partnerships with community organizations. Building community awareness is essential for fostering trust and cooperation between EMS providers and their communities. For related insights, check out our resources on Community. Enhance your community engagement strategies with expert-driven content.
School’s curriculum, internship program prepared teen to properly react in critical moment
Disaster preparation for a flood includes gathering necessities, relying on local media sources and being aware of the dangers rising waters bring
As you ready yourself and your community for a heat wave, keep these tips in mind
For the ninth year, Michigan supermarket Meijer teamed up with first responders for “Shop with a Hero”
Lisa Cassidy took action after noticing the amount of opioid overdose calls crews with St. Charles County Ambulance District were running
Mike Flanagan served more than 350 volunteer hours in 2017, including teaching CPR classes and helping during Hurricane Irma
FBI El Paso Division officials are stressing to area leaders of schools, places of worship and private companies as shootings continue to increase nationwide
Officials said around 30 percent of all San Francisco 911 calls are accidental, and dispatchers spent about 5,000 hours calling people back in 2016
Four boxes are scheduled for installation in Indiana and Ohio next year
The Maryland fire department wanted to help after seeing the devastation caused by the hurricane
Hassan Shabbir left the note while paramedics treated a dying man, telling crews not to park their “van in a stupid place and block” his driveway
The expectation of civilians to respond to emergencies has expanded from care of close friends and family to caring for bystanders and stopping attackers
A three-person team of paramedics has delivered 81 vaccinations in an effort to stop the spread of the city’s hepatitis A outbreak
In Chicago, more than 3,000 people have been shot this year, and the victim of a gunshot wound can bleed to death in only five minutes
EMS providers need to be involved in educating communities in how to provide the initial response to critically injured patients
The program aims to teach bystanders how to keep victims with life-threatening injuries alive until EMS arrives
“It’s one piece of a much large overall strategy to try to reduce the supply and the demand at the same time,” Brockton Mayer Bill Carpenter said
Students in the Emergency Medical Response program will be able to become fully certified before graduating high school
Researchers found that cardiac arrest survival rates remain low in the U.K. due to the lack of knowledge and skills to perform CPR
As we face more and different disasters, communities must consider the special needs of the pediatric portion that makes up one quarter of the population
NIMS provides nationwide guidelines on utilizing the community to manage emergencies
Valley Regional Fire and EMS teamed up with the Fraternal Order of Police Christina Lodge 84 to help their brothers and sisters in Texas in time for Christmas
Traditionally, counties would collect all households’ landline phone numbers and send out mass alerts, but landline usage has decreased
Co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss the top news stories from the week
The naloxone will be provided to the school district for free; the school nurses said they want to help save lives
Our co-hosts discuss the challenges of educating and training citizens in light of the Las Vegas shooting
A parade of tow trucks carried an honorary casket representing first responders fatally struck by cars at emergency scenes
Research found that despite knowing what AEDs are, people don’t feel comfortable using them
First Medical Response of Texas’ new ambulance features a hint of the team’s 90’s “Fiesta Colors” and a custom Spurs logo
The store hosted a “first responder day” before they opened to the public
The unidentified man was bleeding from his injuries but wanted to finish
“There are some evenings where, and I’m not exaggerating, an ambulance can come by every six minutes,” resident Vicki Loevy said