Summary of Kevin Grange's Wild Rescues

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#1 I was an EMT and paramedic in Los Angeles, and my life was at a dead end. I signed up for an EMT class at age 35, hoping to help people in a more direct and meaningful way. I loved everything about prehospital medicine.

#2 I was an EMT and paramedic in Los Angeles, and my life was at a dead end. I signed up for an EMT class at age 35, hoping to help people in a more direct and meaningful way. I loved everything about prehospital medicine.

#3 I was an EMT and paramedic in Los Angeles, and my life was at a dead end. I signed up for an EMT class at age 35, hoping to help people in a more direct and meaningful way. I loved everything about prehospital medicine.

#4 Paramedics in the National Parks are essentially EMTs with a lot more responsibility, and a lot more potential for injury. They also get to fly helicopters.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350000955

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had signed up for an EMT class at age thirty-five, hoping to help people in a more direct and meaningful way. I loved everything about prehospital medicine, from the challenge and unpredictability to the team-based approach.

#2

I had assumed things would get easier after I graduated from paramedic school, but I was quickly proven wrong. The hiring process for firefighters in Los Angeles is extremely competitive, and I was not prepared for how long it would take.

#3

I was working as an ambulance driver in Southern California, and I was also broke. I decided to apply to fire departments in Los Angeles and elsewhere, and work as a park ranger while I was waiting to get hired by a department in LA.

#4

Paramedics are EMTs who can provide basic life support interventions like controlling bleeding, splinting, operating an automatic external defibrillator, providing oxygen, and assisting with medications. They work in an out of hospital/field setting and are typically required to treat patients who are potentially suffering from heat exhaustion, heat stroke, burns, frostbite, hypothermia, lightning strikes, or insect bites.

#5

I was excited to be working in the National Park Service, but I was also frustrated that I couldn’t get jobs in the parks I wanted. I was about to be a character out of BBC's Planet Earth when I was offered a position in Yellowstone's Old Faithful district.

#6

As I drove north from Los Angeles to Yellowstone, I thought about all the different elements of my life that were finally coming together. Yet as