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Demers-Ambulances inc. via Newswire
Demers-Braun-Crestline ambulance manufacturers kicked off celebrations early for the upcoming EMS Week (USA) and Paramedic Services Week (Canada) by announcing they will honor EMS professionals throughout the entire month of May. The United States observes EMS Week from May 17-23, while Canada observes Paramedic Services Week from May 24-30.
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Timmins Daily Press
In these uncertain times, students need to feel as though they are part of something.
This was the driving force that led Cristina Corbett to ask her students to write letters to first responders and front-line workers, thanking them for their sacrifice.
“Kids need to feel like they’re doing something, and they need to feel like in all of this chaos – they see their parents going to work, they see so much about it on the news – so I think they needed to feel like they were doing something,” she said.
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PTBO Canada
Contactless food delivery from downtown restaurants is now available to Peterborough City-County Paramedics isolating from their friends and families at the Holiday Inn Waterfront, thanks to a new Paramedic Takeout Program by the Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area and Y-Drive PTBO.
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Saskatoon StarPhoenix
In thinking about our front line health care workers for the work they are doing during this stressful time, there is a group of workers that often do not get recognized.
The Saskatchewan Air Ambulance crews, the pilots, paramedics and nurses, transport ventilated and high needs patients across our province but many people do not even know they exist.
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Ottawa Matters
St. John Ambulance is holding it's II CPE Drive in Ottawa to collect essential personal protective equipment for healthcare workers.
In collaboration with the Ontario Medical Association the two organizations are looking for essentials like like N95 masks, level 2 gowns, face shields and surgical mask and other supplies like diapers, wipes, baby formula and feminine hygiene products for women's shelters.
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CTV News
Research shows as many as one-third of first responders — paramedics, police officers and firefighters — will experience post-traumatic stress as a result of performing their job duties. And for various reasons, many don't seek out professional help.
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Town & Country
Amid the ongoing pandemic, Prince William has found a unique way to help frontline workers. The royal is allowing air ambulances to use a private lawn at Kensington Palace, usually reserved for the Windsors' own helicopter flights, to land and refuel. Previously, pilots had to fly to another refueling station 20 miles away, if working near the palace.
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National Post
Western Union, a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, today announced a 50 percent fee reduction1 for front-line responders and essential workers sending money globally via any of the company’s digital channels for the next two weeks. The promotion is a small tribute by the company to these customers for their endless commitment to their local communities and dedication to maintain the infrastructure and resources necessary to keep local economies afloat.
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BBC News
When Dr Nigel Kennea talks of the "unexpectedness and awfulness" of deaths in his hospital in the past six weeks, he tempers it with a positive focus on helping bereaved families left behind.
As a medical examiner at St George's Hospital, in south London, his job is to advise clinical teams on completing death certificates, then support relatives through their grief.
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CBC News
Police officers, firefighters and paramedics are often in dangerous situations. It goes with the job.
But a new Facebook group is showing the lighter side of first responders in Nova Scotia's Pictou County.
The group is called Story Time with Pictou County First Responders.
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Lethbridge Herald
City council unanimously approved the donation of a decommissioned ambulance to the Sunrise Rotary Club Los Amigos Project after being assured no other community in Alberta could make use of it. Council had originally intended to approve the donation at its last regular meeting in April, but some councillors expressed concerns that the ambulance might have a more local use in neighbouring communities given the increased need during a pandemic.
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CKOM-AM
Paramedics with Medavie Health Services responded to twice the normal number of overdose calls last week.
Since weekly reporting began in September of 2019, paramedics typically have responded to an average of 40 to 45 overdose calls weekly.
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Everything GP
A Grande Prairie man has been arrested and charged after he allegedly stole an ambulance in Bonnyville on Friday.
Bonnyville RCMP say they got a call around 7 p.m. on May 1 about an ambulance that was stolen from the Bonnyville Healthcare Centre.
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CTV News
For many, social distancing will mean being apart from their mom's this Mother's Day. But for a pair of Peel Region paramedics whose profession crosses generations, that doesn't have to be the case.
Angie Attwood is an advanced care paramedic with Peel Regional Paramedic Services. It's a job she's had for more than 15 years and one she loves to this day.
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Courrier Laval
Depuis le début de la pandémie actuelle, les paramédics d’Urgences-santé ont fait plus de 6800 transports de citoyens ayant des cas suspectés de la COVID-19. Ceux-ci doivent donc prendre toutes les mesures nécessaires pour assurer leur propre sécurité.
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Edmonton Journal
Danielle MacDonald had a runny rose.
That, and a dry cough convinced the 30-year-old Edmonton paramedic to get assessed over the phone through 811 and then self-isolate beginning March 19. Four days later, she tested positive for COVID-19.
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CTV News
For those on the front lines of the pandemic, getting infected is just one danger. They could literally bring their work home with them and infect their loved ones as well.
That’s why some paramedics have taken the extra step of isolating themselves from their families, coming up with inventive ways of living apart from those closest to them.
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Kitchener Today
Paramedics, firefighters, police officers, elected officials, and the public are all sharing their deepest sympathy for Steven Rabak.
Rabak was a three-year veteran of Region of Waterloo Paramedic Services, and firefighter with Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services who died in a single-vehicle motorcycle crash, which happened Saturday morning at around 12:30 a.m.
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CTV News
A group of friends is hoping to raise money for a Prescott-Russell paramedic who lost her home to a fire earlier this week.
Manon Diotte is a community paramedic with the Prescott-Russell Paramedic Service, tasked with performing COVID-19 checks in the community. On April 28, a fire broke out at her duplex. No one was injured but both units were destroyed.
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Toronto Star
A retired Colorado paramedic who died from coronavirus after volunteering to help combat the pandemic in New York City was being honoured Sunday as his body was returned to Denver.
Paul Cary, 66, who worked 32 years as a firefighter paramedic in the Denver suburbs, died April 30, a month after he began working in New York.
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