Paramedics rescue woman from Mississippi River

09:21 PM CDT on Tuesday, July 3, 2007
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Two EMS paramedics were being hailed as heroes after they rescued a woman who had jumped into the Mississippi River on Monday night. ..........................

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Amtrak rescue drill scheduled for New Orleans on Friday

Times-Picayune April 19, 2007







NEW ORLEANS -- The city's offices of Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Medical Services and Homeland Security are sponsoring a full scale drill Friday to train local public safety personnel on the proper way to handle incidents involving Amtrak passenger trains..............

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Congratulations!!!

Sixteen EMS Employees Awarded Civil Service Longevity Service Pins.

Congratulations to Ms. Sandra Dixon and all of New Orleans EMS Personnel

The American Association of Suicidology held its annual conference in New Orleans this week and on April 14, 2007, Sandra...................

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"Rebuilding from the (High) Ground Up"

By Kathryn Robyn
Associate Editor 

Emergency Medical Services Magazine

March 2006

http://www.emsresponder.com/publication/article.jsp?pubId=1&id=3060




How do you go about rebuilding an EMS department when most of the responders and even the director have suffered severe damage and displacement from their homes? That's the situation New Orleans, LA, EMS is facing six months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city and the emergency…………………...

Article Rebuilding from the (High) Ground Up

"Behind Katrina's Eye with New Orleans EMS"

By Jacob Oberman

JEMS
November 2005
Vol. 30 Issue 11

www.jems.com/jems/30-11/13279/


Editor's note: Jacob Oberman, a paramedic and New Orleans EMS supervisor, is a veteran of many hurricanes. He kept detailed notes about the EMS response to Hurricane Katrina. This is Oberman's account as told to Robert Davis…………….

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"When the Rules Change"

By A. J. Heightman 

JEMS
November 2005
Vol. 30 Issue 11

http://www.jems.com/jems/30-11/13281/ 


"EMS did function [in New Orleans]," says City of New Orleans Director of EMS Jullette Saussy, "just not in a traditional fashion. New Orleans EMS helped thousands of people on foot and in the MASH unit and during the evac. We just did not have our ambulances, a CAD system and 10-97 time. We never quit functioning…………………………………

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"A view of 2 days on rescue front line"

By Bob Davis

USA TODAY

September 5, 2005 

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-09-05-rescue-report_x.htm





USA TODAY's Robert Davis, trained as a paramedic, spent two days with New Orleans paramedics as they made and carried out plans to treat and evacuate the 20,000 people stranded at the New Orleans Convention Center, giving him exclusive access to the rescue operation. This is his account of what it was like to be at the center of that storm........

Article A view of 2 days on rescue front line