This week marks the 47th annual National EMS Week. In 1974, President Gerald Ford authorized EMS Week to celebrate EMS practitioners and the important work they do in our nation’s communities.
The past year has been extremely challenging as crews were put in harms way at an unprecedented level. Local EMS crews responded to more calls than ever before and exposed themselves to a risk, which often caused crews to run short handed as members, despite precautions, often were forced to quarantine due to Covid exposure.
Prophetstown’s EMS Director Julie Pope said the service normally responds to an average of thirty-two calls per month, but at the height of the pandemic they responded to as many as sixty-seven calls per month.
The Prophetstown Fire Protection District ambulance crews serve Prophetstown, Lyndon and Hooppole. The Tampico Rural Fire Protection District Ambulance members serve Tampico, Yorktown, Thomas and rural Deer Grove. Erie serves covers approximately 125 square miles from Hwy 92 in Henry County to the Whiteside County line in Hillsdale to Black Road in Fenton to Hamilton Corners towards Lyndon.
All services are always accepting volunteers and will accommodate training.
PFPD Ambulance Personnel
Cami Arthurs -EMT B
Lucca Sweetster- EMR
Rod Miniel EMT-I
Ron Hanson EMT-I
Tarah Pyse EMT-B
Dawn Fisk EMT-B
Jared Andersen EMT-B
Ryan Bohms EMT-B
Kim Dollieslager EMT-P
Jennifer Etheridge EMT-B
Steve Fisher EMT-P
Bill Friedrich EMT-P
Alex Garza EMT-B
Anna Garcia EMT-B
Kevin Everly EMT-B
Ken Stegmiller EMT-B
Allyson Hanlon EMT-B
Shannon Klausing EMT-B
Danny Surdez EMT-B
Jason Larsen EMT-P
Jim Miller EMT-B
Marcy Romero EMT-B
Jim Sampson EMT-P
Angie Rosenow EMR
Tyler Willman EMT-B
Brandon Dewey EMT-P
Warren Smith EMT-B
Jason Schneider EMT-P
Kody Schultz EMT-B
James Thompson EMT-B
Muck Meier-Driver
Lowell Gilman-Driver
Bill Hartman-Driver
Jamie Ullrich EMR/Driver
Julie Pope EMT-P
