News & Articles
Line of Duty Deaths
Kindred, N.D. EMT Dies While On Duty
- 2009 Jun 30
A Kindred (N.D.) EMT died on June 25, 2009 after suffering cardiac event while on duty.
N.M. State Police Search and Rescue Helicopter Pilot and Hiker Die in Crash
- 2009 Jun 22
A helicopter pilot and hiker were killed last week when a New Mexico State Police helicopter crashed after rescuing the hiker from an area near Santa Fe Baldy mountain.
JEMS Editorial Board Member Killed in Iraq
- 2008 Dec 26
Major John Pryor, MD, a member of the JEMS Editorial Board was killed by mortar fire on Christmas Day in Iraq while serving as a trauma surgeon in the United States Army Reserve Medical Corps., 1st Forward Surgical Team (FST).
Baltimore Medic Dies At Fire Station
- 2008 Oct 20
There is still no determination as to why a 32-year-old Baltimore County paramedic/firefighter died while on duty Wednesday night.
EMT, Patient, Two Police Die in Md. Medevac Crash
- 2008 Sept 28
An EMT, two Maryland State Police officers and the patient they were transporting died after a Sept. 28 air ambulance crash.
Van Hemme Dies on Way to Work
- 2008 Sept 26
Peterborough EMS paramedic Steven Van Hemme died Aug. 26 in a crash while on his way to work.
Memorials
Texas Doctor's Death 'Tremendous Loss'
- 2009 Jan 28
On Friday, Dec. 19, 2008, at approximately 11 a.m., Cyndi Arnold was killed in a tragic accident. Cyndi was a fire dispatcher working in Jefferson County Operations.
Captain Todd Seek and wife Vaunda Seek
- 2009 Jan 28
Thompson Valley (Colo.) EMS Capt. Todd Seek, 47, and his wife, Vaunda, of Loveland, Colo., died in a Jan. 2 car crash on their way back to Colorado from their second home in Arizona.
Wreck Claims Life of Firefighter, Flight Paramedic
- 2009 Jan 28
Earl Morphew Jr., veteran firefighter and paramedic with Chilhowie and Bristol Va. Fire Departments and flight paramedic with Wellmont Health Systems, died Wednesday morning in a collision with a vehicle traveling the wrong way
Cyndi Jones Arnold
- 2008 Dec 31
On Friday, Dec. 19, 2008, at approximately 11 a.m., Cyndi Arnold was killed in a tragic accident. Cyndi was a fire dispatcher working in Jefferson County Operations.
George Schaub
- 2007 Nov 15
After returning from a call to his Sparta, Ill. MedStar Ambulance, Inc base shortly after midnight, EMT George Schaub, 23, laid down for a nap. Later that morning his partner was unsuccessful in reviving him.
Ivan R. Desrosiers
- 2008 Nov 16
Ivan R. Desrosiers 1930-2008 LUDLOW - Ivan R. "Joe" Desrosiers 78 of Gaudreau Avenue died Sunday November 16, in Mercy Medical Center. Born in Indian Orchard January 6, 1930 he was the son of the late Adelarde and Bernadette (Demers) Desrosiers.
National EMS Memorial Service
Mission
The mission of the National EMS Memorial Service is to honor and remember those men and women of America's Emergency Medical Services who have given their lives in the line of duty, and to recognize the sacrifice they have made in service to their communities and their fellow man.
