Public safety personnel gather at Westminster Fire Hall for
mark National EMS Week
By Kevin Dayhoff http://www.westminstervfd.org/news/fullstory/news/Westminster-Carroll-County-Maryland-National-EMS-Week-Firefighter-recognition-observed
Westminster Volunteer Fire Department EMS providers Laura
Tyler, left, and Jared Davis, right, review a proclamation for National EMS
Week by Westminster Mayor Kevin Utz. Photo by Kevin Dayhoff
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
This week, May 20 – May 26, is National EMS Week when
emergency medical crews in Carroll County and throughout the country are
honored for their work.
To mark the occasion, emergency medical services providers,
firefighters, and administrative personnel at the Westminster Fire Engine and
Hose Co. No. 1 gathered for a luncheon Tuesday in the day room of firehouse.
A proclamation by Westminster Mayor Kevin Utz was presented
that noted that emergency medical services are a vital public service and that
members of the EMS teams “are ready to provide lifesaving care to those in need
24 hours a day, seven days a week…”
EMS personnel are often on the front line and are among the
first to arrive upon the scene of an accident, medical emergency or natural
disaster.
Whether it is an injury as the result of a crime, home or
workplace accident, a fire, automobile accident, heart attack, or a natural
disaster, EMS personnel arrive in minutes to attend to the sick or injured on
site and see to it that the patients are safely transported to the hospital.
EMS Week dates back to when President Gerald Ford first
declared November 3 – 10, 1974 National Emergency Medical Services Week. Over
the years, the week to recognize the work of EMS personnel moved to various
dates in the calendar year before it was settled in 1992 to be the 3rd
week in May.
This year’s theme for National EMS Week is “EMS: More Than A
Job. A Calling.” To listen to the public safety personnel at the luncheon, it
is obvious that putting aside their own personal safety to save the lives of
others is a calling – especially for the many EMS providers who volunteer their
services for the Westminster fire department or any of the fourteen volunteer
departments in Carroll County.
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