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• Ex-firefighter-EMT dies reviving neighbor who had heart attack

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  Robert Cordani responded to a medical call for a neighbor suffering from cardiac arrest and began to perform CPR before collapsing from cardiac arrest himself

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  EMS in the warm zone: Tactical medicine inter-agency training

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  Considerations for planning interdisciplinary training and staging include properly equipping EMS providers and developing a common lexicon

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  Man arrested for impersonating firefighter during EMS call

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  Police said Tony Beverly was found inside a patient's home wearing bunker pants and identified himself as a volunteer firefighter

• Responder receives top award for saving baby while on hunting trip

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  Roanoke County firefighter-paramedic Andrew Goodpasture was in the “middle of nowhere” when he came across a woman trying to give her grandchild CPR

• Responders return to finish mowing veteran's lawn after call

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  Two Birmingham Fire and Rescue responders transported a 30-year military veteran to the hospital and finished his yardwork afterward

• Texas firefighters to train teachers on saving lives

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  School officials are teaming up with the Fort Worth Professional Firefighters Association to learn lifesaving basics to stop blood loss

• Pa. city considers offering tax incentives to volunteer responders

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  Active volunteer responders could get a 20 percent credit on their municipal real estate taxes and a rebate on earned income taxes

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  Fla. fire dept. releases audio of fatal high school shooting

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  The audio reveals responders scrambling to get the wounded out of the freshman building while not knowing where the shooter was

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  Dallas Fire-Rescue considers transport policy changes

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  To reduce transport time, the department is considering transporting patients to the closest hospital instead of their choice and not transporting low-priority patients

• Firefighter-paramedic finishes Ironman race in full firefighting gear

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  Diana Woolf competed to help raise money and awareness for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and her personal campaign, Rescue 4 PTSD

• NY bill would allow volunteer firefighters to recover ambulance costs

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  The bill would give volunteer fire departments the ability to make up the extensive costs of ambulance services by billing insurance companies

• Ariz. fire dept. reduces ambulance transports with program

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  Tucson Collaborative Community Care aims to decrease transports for people with chronic issues by sending a crew of two firefighters, a paramedic and a social worker

• Organization donates toys for responders to give patients with autism

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  Bursting Bubbles developed a toy that wouldn't take up much space in emergency vehicles while allowing responders to connect with those with autism

• Fire dept.’s 'Mobile Medic' program increases efficiency

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  The Rapid City Fire Department now deploys one paramedic in an SUV to calls that are not as urgent so that an ambulance unit is kept available

• Hospital, fire dept. team up to better treat sepsis in the field

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  North Richland Hills Fire Department and Medical City North Hills created the Code Sepsis program to assess and treat sepsis with antibiotics en route to the hospital

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