Editor:
Bear hugs to all the people who helped with rescuing the buried worker near Dead Man’s Flats on June 21.
Moose knuckles for failing to mention the paramedics’ involvement with the rescue.
According to the article Buried Alive published on June 26, it was Canmore Fire-Rescue that did all the attending. No doubt they helped with the extrication and back boarding, but it would be the paramedics that attended to the injuries and transported the patient.
Had the patient not been breathing on his own, who do you think would have been the ones to initiate CPR, or have been the ones to have intubate and provide other life saving skills on-scene?
Understandably, it was an integrated service as Canmore Fire-EMS since 1991, but that all changed in 2012 with AHS taking over EMS.
I think it’s time we start to recognize all the hard work and involvement that paramedics do for us. Let’s remember to mention them and their involvement the next time they are in one of your stories.
P. Hungle,
Banff
