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.
It’s time for EMS to take the lead in making sure our healthcare partners know who we are
An Illinois service partnered with the health department to vaccinate vulnerable populations in homeless shelters, nursing homes, jails and congregate living facilities
Paying homage to our heroes in headsets during National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week
The group, established by physical education teacher David Deremian in the fall, gathered in the library to celebrate raising nearly $2,500 to purchase an AED for their school
Jason Weeks was fired as a battalion chief in October after his involvement developing and maintaining a private, union-backed website while on town time, using town equipment
You’d better get out your handkerchief: an old EMS tradition is fading fast
New Year’s Eve is typically loaded with alcohol-fueled deaths and injuries, and the coming celebration will probably be worse than most years because it falls on a Saturday
The American Red Cross in Wyoming collected about 5,000 thank-you letters to first-responders from elementary school students across the state
Medics have been trained to look for medical ID bracelets, but many may not know that calling the number on the back of the bracelet provides access to an on-call medical expert
Profits from Thanksgiving Day fundraiser to go to Children’s Hospital, Ronald McDonald House, which aided boy with Guillian-Barré syndrome
With current system, some patients do not forward the EMS reimbursement checks their insurance companies send them
The first-ever national alert will last about 30 seconds and start Wednesday at 2 p.m.
Mark Hughes started his CPR-instruction business to “create additional revenue streams” so he could provide First Relief International with donations
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Bill would provide grants for programs to teach schoolchildren and teens CPR and how to use an AED
A sticker placed on the back windshield of a vehicle would direct firefighters and EMTs to a folder in the glove box with facts about the driver’s health
Bruce Mandel, 47, had taken a patient to St. Barnabas Hospital and was returning to Maplewood when he began feeling ill
A 40-year-old man was about one-tenth of a mile short of finishing the race in downtown San Jose when he fell to the ground
Richard “Boo” Bourgeois, 44, suffered a brain bleed and severe head injury due to a July 9 accident
WTC burn victim Lauren Manning reveals her ‘Unmeasured Strength’
The point of the film is to remind people that in an emergency, every second counts, and to reach emergency situations in time, responders need the cooperation of the public
When her great-grandmother lost consciousness, Shanya Williams, 4, applied a lesson she learned from her summer reading to get the woman the help she needed
During his weekly WOR radio appearance Friday, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the question of whether to discontinue the tradition has come up before
The prince heard first hand from firefighters who were pelted with bricks while trying to put out blazes started by hundreds of looters and rioters who torched cars and shops
The service, from DT Interpreting of Carnegie, will give Plum’s police officers and paramedics access to interpreters when, in an emergency, they encounter someone who speaks a foreign language
Besides uniforms, the shop features additional protective and safety gear such as hats, jackets, shirts, pants, vests, boots and firefighter turnout gear
A Texas man walked by a bee hive about four times before they attacked after his cellphone rang
Louie Sanchez, 29, and Marvin Norwood, 30, of Rialto in San Bernardino County, were charged Friday with felony mayhem, assault likely to produce great bodily injury and battery causing serious bodily injury
Expecting teens to be prepared to be first responders at accident scenes is a big jump
Additional ambulances are being added to the EMS fleet this week in the hopes of bucking growing need amid the scorching temperatures
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