Friday, August 29, 2008
Chicago Adopts Segways for Events
The Chicago Fire Department now has a special events emergency response team incident's at all of the city's major special events. We are adapting our...
Symptom Surveillance
Joseph C. Cahill
Bioterrorism is covert by its very nature. It is unannounced and it is hidden it has to be. Moreover, it can stay hidden for at least a while adding to...
Fire Service Orgs Oppose Separate EMS Agency
International Association of Fire Fighters
Condition: Critical
By Chris DeChant & Les Caid
How prepared is your agency for a mass-casualty disaster response? The Metropolitan Medical Response System can assist your agency during such an incident....
Move to Licensing Will Change Medics' Scope
[ Bruce Evans ]
Several trade journals have asked fire and EMS professionals to comment on the National EMS Scope of Practice document. Thousands have written the National...
Los Angeles Paramedics to Deploy 12-Lead EKGs in Field
Florida Paramedic Wins "EMS Award of Excellence"
Too Many Patients
By S. Christopher Suprun Jr.
We're in the middle of a snowstorm and we're driving northbound in southbound lanes on Interstate 95 to find an accident with a vehicle fire, says Asst....
Medic Merger
By Bill Lowe & Alex Cohilas
On March 18, 2002, newly appointed Fire Chief Alex Cohilas issued a directive abolishing the Clayton County (Ga.) Fire Department's almost 20-year history...
Access CardioSystems Recalls AEDs
International Association of Fire Chiefs
DHS Introduces Web-Course for EMS Response at MCIs
Department of Homeland Security
Search Ability Added to Fire/EMS Law Site
Fire Service Mourns Passing of Icon
James O. Page, widely considered the father of fire-based EMS in America, died suddenly Sept. 4. Page was stricken by a massive heart attack as he was...
How to Honor and Remember a Saint
[ Bruce Evans ]
An eerie voice-mail message told of the death of James O. Page. If you have been in EMS any length of time, when you heard the news you most likely experienced...
Fire/EMS Community Mourns James O. Page
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