EMS Heroes
The EMS heroes topic covers articles and recent news about EMS providers that go above and beyond the call of duty.
Experience the violence and destruction in Syria through the eyes and voices of volunteer first responders who rush in to search for victims in the rubble
West Virginia native learns to work around creepy crawlers and more in a 42-year EMS career
Noah Filer comes out of a coma and learns he’s a double amputee — then completes his goal of becoming a paramedic
Thanks to quick thinking and action, the man can now go home to his wife and three kids
When others were fleeing the scene of a deadly knife rampage, Leona Di Amore said she rushed toward the melee
Gabby Ferguson has been searching for the EMT who saved her ever since she was almost killed in a crash
Lt. Wayne Smith wasn’t supposed to be playing in a hockey game the night a man collapsed on a bench from a heart attack
Holly Thomason, daughter of a retired battalion chief, grew up around the fire station and always wanted to become a paramedic
The two firefighters stopped and rendered aid when they noticed the car on fire on a highway
Crews revived the boy using a defibrillator, CPR, a breathing tube and medication
Jerome Roddenberry received 32 vials of antivenin at the hospital after a rattlesnake bit him on his hand
Roya Quirk’s pulled muscle turned out to be a near-fatal blood clot
The bus was driving down a highway when the back door swung open
The campaign kicked off with billboards that feature police officers, firefighters, paramedics and dispatchers from the city
The responders and the woman were taken to a hospital and treated for hypothermia; the woman later delivered her son via cesarean section
Destiny York was on her way home from shopping for her unborn son when she got into a car crash
Janie Hall, a former respiratory therapist with experience in a trauma unit, began CPR after her date fell face-first to the floor
The paramedic ran across the street and found a 2-year-old child on the ground
Samantha Diaz helped arrange a flight from Destin to Louisville with a private pilot who flew the two teens back to Kentucky in his jet
San Diego firefighter/paramedic Ben Vernon used his time in the hospital recovering from a stabbing to lobby for a rescue air mattress
Zahrah Ibrahim was keeping score at a championship basketball game when she noticed her family panicking
Randolph Mantooth, who portrayed Johnny Gage, said responders saved his sister’s life in a 1987 car crash
Efforts to aid 3-year-old Raymond Tiberia were called a “perfect storm,” because it seemed like everything was working against the rescue crews
Todd Zobrist and Ty Barr, with Highland Fire-EMS, and police officers Sgt. Aric Steinbeck, Shawn Bland, Heather Kunz and Chris Clewis were recognized
Stewart Graham took a CPR course in college, but never had to put the skill to use
Aaron Davis-Quinn took off his belt and used it as a makeshift tourniquet on a man’s arm
The supervisor was driving home when he noticed a vehicle leave the road near an intersection
Actors, actresses and Broadway stars are using their celebrity power to keep Yadira Arroyo’s memory alive
Michael Patrick was on assignment at the Dollywood theme park when he collapsed
EMS professionals from around the world are encouraged to join the social media conversations on what it means to be #EMSSTRONG
Another cat and a turtle were also saved; no one else was injured
EMS providers will be trained in basics of dog emergency medical response
Paramedic Todd Zobrist administered CPR on the hood and swam the child to shore; the baby is expected to make a full recovery
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