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.
CPs should have extensive prehospital experience and a strong network of peers in related disciplines
We may be humble public servants, but that doesn’t mean we can’t spotlight our impact, particularly when the public is paying attention
Sandwich (MA) Fire Chief John Burke reflects on how properly disposing medical waste has helped safeguard his community against COVID-19, the opioid epidemic and in-house medical care
About 5 percent of emergency calls are from Spanish speakers, and the department wants to recruit more bilingual employees
He worked with local businesses and leaders to purchase CPR assist devises for the community, and conducted training for town employees and EMS providers
Steciak had just been promoted to captain in November and first joined the volunteer ranks at the age of 14; he was remembered as someone who helped and protected people
70 percent of business is medical care; dedicated medic unit enhances service provided by fire departments
The department is seeking community help to raise $150,000 to replace an aging ambulance in order to continue to provide free emergency services to residents
Paramedics stocked ambulances with bags containing small items aimed at keeping people clean, healthy and warm, and will hand them out when they see someone in need
Money would go to life jackets at boat landings through the ‘Kids Don’t Float’ campaign
A timely, genuine, and respectful approach will defuse the situation and win you support
Her water broke during a flight and she was taken by ambulance to a hospital after an emergency landing; the baby was in breech
The storm swept from California into the Mojave Desert and Nevada, bringing snow to parts of northern Arizona and New Mexico along the way
He resuscitated a 50-year-old unresponsive woman who may have overdosed; earlier in the week he revived a 13-day-old baby
The department implemented high-performance CPR, and began tracking data related to bystanders starting resuscitation efforts before responders arrive
After getting his own financial problems in order, he’s paying it forward by raising more than $1,000 so far for a struggling family
The number of homeless people has increased from 83 in 2007 to 256 today, and it’s putting a strain on responders in Billings, Mont.
First responders prepare for possible explosions, pollution spills
Residents and businesses raised money to purchase a new basketball goal for the station
A very small dose can be lethal, and the agency is building a legal case against those who are marketing it in bulk
After 26 years, the founder is using money from a reverse mortgage and his NYFD pension to fund the volunteer agency, and hopes to raise $125K to receive a reimbursement grant
Most Americans know texting and driving is dangerous but do it anyway; EMS can change this by educating children
A man who lives under the bridge helped her out of the water, walked her to a responding ambulance, then “kind of disappeared in the midst of the whole thing”
When we publicly share our distrust of the people we respond to emergencies with, we can expect the public to be disgusted and disappointed in all of us
By making slight tweaks, local media came back every year to cover an ambulance driving demonstration that shared the same core message each time
London Ambulance Service is using social media to better connect with its community and raise public awareness about what EMS providers are doing
Flu vaccine does not cause flu, but four in 10 of us believe it does
The mock rescue was part of a holiday event at the Fort Wayne Firefighters Museum
A brother and sister are recovering after the gas from a generator permeated the trailer where they were living
Language barriers and lack of knowledge about cardiac arrest symptoms were also cited in a study seeking to increase public education around CPR and emergency services