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  • Preparing for Disaster

    Reprinted from CommonHealth, Summer 1997 On a Monday morning in March, EMS team leader Yusup Orazov, MD, was summoned to the scene of a factory carbon monoxide poisoning in Richmond, Virginia. Rushing up to the incident commander, Robert Hamilton, a se...

  • Hooked on Helping: Richmond Ambulance Authority Serves as EMS Model

    Reprinted from: CommonHealth, Summer 1997 By Joanne Neuber At 9:30 PM, a resident in one of the high-crime areas of Richmond, Virginia calls 911 for emergency assistance following an assault by a robber. The call is sent to the Communications Center...

  • Shooting scene gives Russians care lesson

    Reprinted from Richmond Times Dispatch, June 16, 1993 By Beverly Orndorff It was pure chance, but there could hardly have been a better lesson for the visiting Russian medical team in how our emergency medical system works than what they saw last Th...

  • Richmond firefighters to respond to calls in medical emergencies

    Reprinted from: The Richmond News Leader, October 31, 1990 By Gordon Hickey Beginning tomorrow, Richmond's 500 firefighters will respond to calls for emergency medical treatment. The firefighters have been trained as "first responders," and becau...

  • House calls

    Concerns about ambulance service addressed Reprinted from: The Richmond News Leader, July 7, 1990 By Paul Bradley Changes in the city's emergency medical service system not only have prompted two volunteer rescue squads to announce plans to pull ...

  • Firefighters to answer calls to 911

    Quicker response cited in change Reprinted from: Richmond Times Dispatch, October 31, 1990 By Mark Johnson and Battinto Batts Jr. Two cars smash into each other at a busy downtown intersection. A North Side man collapses from a heart attack. A yo...

  • Saving a woman's life was close to being textbook

    Reprinted from: Richmond Times Dispatch, 11-8-1990 By Brian Kelley For Richmond officials and doctors, the chain of events that started in a parking log across from City Hall yesterday was a textbook case of how the city's improved Emergency Medical...

  • Ambulance service selects first director

    Reprinted from: Richmond Times Dispatch, March 1, 1991 By Michael Paul Williams Richmond Ambulance Services Inc. has chosen the head of the Kansas City, MO., emergency medical system as its first executive director....