After the Ambulance Stops

<p>Unit Five County emergency traffic. My heart raced. I don't remember the details of my first call on the ambulance. I do remember the excitement as the alarm in our station rang. Someone needed me and I was equipped to handle their emergency.</p><p> </p><p>Fifty-one years earlier I wasn't equipped to handle the emergency that exploded around me that killed the little sister I couldn't save. I vowed then I would never let Death take the one I was caring for He would have to take me first.</p><p> </p><p>If I don't beat Death on this call my patient dies. I cannot allow that to happen. Ever.</p><p> </p><p>I had been trying to save lives for almost sixty years. Here I was about to climb into an ambulance for the first time as an EMT part of a two-person team whose sole purpose was to beat death. To get patients from whereever we found them to an emergency room and to get them there alive.</p><p> </p><p>In one way or another every EMT thought of death as the enemy. I could see death as a physical shadow; a shadow I could feel that would raise goosebumps on my arms and the back of my neck. I named it Death.</p><p> </p><p>Experience for yourself what it's like to be a crew member on an ambulance whose only role was to respond to 911 emergencies.</p><p>You can probably imagine what it feels like when we beat Death. What happens to us when we don't?</p><p> </p><p>When you ride with me in the pages of this little book you'll be riding along with a recipient of the Public Safety Administration's Coin of Excellence awarded for extraordinary efforts in Public Safety.</p><p> </p><p>Scroll up to buy this book and start reading today!</p>