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  SCHOOL LOCKDOWN DRILL CONSIDERATIONS* Problem: First Responders aren’t always privy to school’s lockdown policies *Editor’s Note: This article was readied for publication immediately prior to the recent school shooting incident in Ohio. The article was not written in response to or  meant in any way to critique the incident or the men and women who responded to the call. ...

RescueDigest Podcast Episode 2 The RescueDigest Audio Podcast brings you news, interviews and tips you can use to make your life in emergency services a little easier and help you in your job protecting the members of your community.   [powerpress] In this episode, The care and feeding of the Career / Family Dynamic, Using Tactical Tarps to Coordinate and ...

  Emergency Services Fitness: Get Fit to Save Lives   Goal:  To ensure your safety and ability to perform your job in emergency services: a physically taxing profession.   Although we’re in the profession of protecting and helping the public, we too often neglect ourselves and our bodies. In order to provide the services we’re sworn to provide to the ...

The Easiest Way to be a Life Saver Goal: To recognize the opportunities that arise in emergency services to provide true care for others, especially when it seems like a waste of your training and expertise to do so. “You often help your patients the most when you think you’re doing the least.”  This advice was given to me as ...

More Information on using moulage in emergency services education.

Volunteering From Local to Global: How to Take your Emergency Services Training on the Road Goal:  To apply your Emergency Services Training and experience to help people, volunteering in different locations around the world. Last year I had the amazing pleasure of travelling to the Zulu Natal in South Africa.  On the way there I spent one day and one ...

  Anniversary Time May is a month of Anniversaries for me; the Anniversary of my birth (I’m 41), the Anniversary of my service at the Fire Department (12 years), the Anniversary of my Paramedic License, (16 years), and most importantly, the Anniversary of my marriage (now almost five wonderful years). I think that Anniversaries are a fantastic opportunity. When I ...

  CPR, The Change Okay, so by now anyone who cares knows about the AHA changes to CPR, right? Or do they?