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2. Goodbye, scanner. Austin police, fire, EMS will no longer ...

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   April 18, 2024 at 6:08 AM. Public safety agencies in Austin — police, fire and EMS — will soon go radio silent to the public once they transition to an encrypted radio system. This means that ...

3. Travis County STAR Flight - Wikipedia

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   1985-2015. Travis County STAR (Shock Trauma Air Rescue) Flight began in 1985 as a joint program involving Travis County, the City of Austin, and Brackenridge Hospital. The first aircraft used by STAR Flight was a Bell 206B, later replaced with a Bell 206L3. STAR Flight originated primarily to conduct air medical transport, which still makes up ...

4. Emergency medical responder levels by U.S. state - Wikipedia

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   Emergency Medical Technician II (EMT-II) (Analogous to EMT-I/85) Emergency Medical Technician III (EMT-III) (Analogous to AEMT/85) Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) (Established in 2015, follows and is certified via the NREMT testing process) Mobile Intensive Care Paramedic (MICP) (Analogous to Paramedic via NREMT)

5. Austin Fire Department - Wikipedia

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   The Austin Fire Department provides fire protection and first-response emergency medical services to the city of Austin, Texas. The Austin Fire Department is the fourth largest fire department (by number of personnel) in the state of Texas. [3] In total, the department is responsible for an area of 272 square miles (700 km 2) and services a ...

6. 'Nail in the coffin': How Austin-Travis County EMS is ... - AOL

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   Austin-Travis County EMS has averaged nearly a 20% vacancy rate since 2021. From low pay to poor work-life balance, here's what's causing it. 'Nail in the coffin': How Austin-Travis County EMS is ...

7. 'Outbreak' of opioid overdoses in Austin, Texas, linked to 8 ...

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   Updated May 1, 2024 at 1:26 PM. U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. Police in Austin, Texas, said they responded to an "outbreak" of over 50 opioid-related overdose calls between Monday and Tuesday ...

8. Electric Reliability Council of Texas - Wikipedia

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   The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. ( ERCOT) is an American organization that operates Texas 's electrical grid, the Texas Interconnection, [3] [4] which supplies power to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90 percent of the state's electric load. [5] ERCOT is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the ...

9. Emergency medical services in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Freedom House Ambulance Service was the first emergency medical service in the United States to be staffed by paramedics with medical training beyond basic first aid. [24] In the late 1960s, Dr. R Adams Cowley was instrumental in the creation of the country's first statewide EMS program, in Maryland. The system was called the Division of ...