NCOAE

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Regardless of the frequency with which you see them, you may be wondering — what exactly does an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) do? EMTs are not just “ambulance drivers,” although that’s certainly a critical part of their occupation. For EMTs and patients, an ambulance is more than transportation to the hospital.

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Gold Cross Ambulance Service

JUNE 29, 2022

No two calls for an ambulance are ever exactly the same. In today’s blog, we take a closer look at 10 of the most common reasons that people call for an ambulance. So while this isn’t a specific look into the reasons why people end up needing a Gold Cross ambulance, a lot of the data mirrors our own.

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Paramedic Training Spot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Learning how to become an EMT in New Jersey, or an Emergency Medical Technician to be specific, is not an overnight accomplishment. Not only are you training to be a Garden State EMT, you are studying to become Nationally Registered, which is a relatively new requirement for the state.

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Peter Canning

OCTOBER 30, 2023

We’re dispatched to an overdose on Ashley Street. I am in the fly car and a BLS crew is in the ambulance. An EMT is already wheeling the stretcher down a short alley where his partner is kneeling by the dumpster. Good job,” I say to the young EMT. The young EMT did and it helped us find this lost soul.

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Peter Canning

JANUARY 15, 2024

They treated me like s**t the time I overdosed. One day I was dispatched to an overdose. I was in the paramedic fly car and a BLS crew was in the ambulance. An EMT was already wheeling the stretcher down a short alley where his partner knelt by the dumpster. Thought I’d check behind the dumpster,” the EMT said to me.

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Overdose BLS EMT EMT 52

Peter Canning

JANUARY 26, 2025

Another EMT is made fun of for leaving the keys in the ambulance allowing unknowns to steal it. Two students accidently overdose on fentanyl contaminated Xanax that they acquired to help sleep after a long caffeine fueled study session, one to likely death and the other to a second chance.

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