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| Check out Broward EMS Alumni member web pages: Artie DeLaRiva Joe Peterkin | |
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Broward County EMS Dedicated to the proud men and women of
Broward County EMS who for over twenty years rescued the sick an injured in
Broward County.
This site will be a place to look back and
remember the days when our We will be posting some different historical photos of people, places and equipment from the past. Check Back Soon. Broward County EMS Alumni Wanted Are you an ex-BCEMS member? Retired or moved onto to greener pastures? Let us know who, where and how you are and we'll give you your own web page. Send us a couple of paragraphs about who you are, what your doing now and maybe some of your recollections about your EMS days and we'll post it here for all to read. Send a few pictures and we'll post those too.
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Anyone remember the LifePak 5 or the APCOR radio? The LifePak was lightweight and pretty simple to use. Some paramedics working in the street today will never experience defibrillation the way it was meant to be; with PADDLES! Paddles rocked! You ripped em' out of the holder, cranked up the energy setting, had someone drop some gel on them, smear em' around, place them on the chest and yell "clear". You pressed the buttons and "welded" the patient, hopefully into something other than asystole. Unfortunately the days of "Johnny and Roy" are over. The new LifePak 12 does everything but clean the truck after it's done. Hands off defibrillator pads made the paddles obsolete.......kinda' like us. Doe's anyone still yell "clear" anymore?
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Anatomy of a Med Unit:
The Action Compartment The action compartment of the Med unit held most of the equipment needed on any call. We carried the ALS drug box, oxygen box, trauma box, Apcor radio, MAST suits, OB Kit, Impact suction unit and other assorted goodies. Most calls required nothing other than could be found in the action compartment. For those paramedics who will never know the speed, maneuverability and freedom of a Squad Truck, my heart is heavy for you. Squad Trucks Rule!
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The show that started many of us on our career path.
Emergency! ran from 1972 thru 1977. There were 132, one hour episodes, a two hour pilot and four, two hour movies. Randy Mantooth and Kevin Tighe played America's favorite paramedics; Johnny Gage and Roy DeSoto.
For more information on what's happening with Randy "Johnny Gage" Mantooth, check out his website at http://www.randymantooth.com
Check out the EMERGENCY! Flash presentation!
Enjoy some familiar sounds!
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These
highly motivated paramedics worked in one of the busiest EMS systems in the
Southeast US until it was merged into the county fire department in the mid
1990's.
units handled most of the EMS calls in the entire county.
