SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Lackawanna County officials are recognizing the work of emergency medical personnel during Emergency Medical Services Week, honoring the first responders who provide lifesaving care around the clock.<\/p>\n
County leaders said EMS professionals play a critical role in responding to sudden illnesses, serious injuries and traumatic emergencies at all hours of the day and night.<\/p>\n
Officials noted that emergency medical workers, along with nurses, doctors, firefighters, law enforcement officers and dispatchers, undergo extensive training focused on protecting and saving lives.<\/p>\n
Those recognized during the observance included representatives from several emergency response organizations across the region.<\/p>\n
Pictured are Lackawanna County Commissioners Thom Welby, Bill Gaughan and Chris Chermak along with Bruce Beauvais of Pennsylvania Ambulance, Steve Fish of Cottage Ambulance Company, Robert Carpenter of EMS of Northeast and Michael Chimielewski of Covington Ambulance. Also pictured is Lackawanna County Emergency Management Agency Director Tom Taylor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Lackawanna County officials are recognizing the work of emergency medical personnel during Emergency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-206151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}