Random Acts of Kindness
鈥淚t鈥檚 not that kindness and altruism in our profession 鈥� and the world in general 鈥� is becoming rarer, it鈥檚 that it happens so often that it鈥檚 not news鈥�
From fulfilling dying wishes to finishing house work for a patient, EMS providers performed some pretty incredible acts of kindness this year
Charles Avery, the EMS programs director at Bainbridge State College, realized he needed to create an all-out celebration of Blair Williams鈥� dream after meeting her for the first time
High-end restaurants are making rounds to feed firefighters, EMTs and police officers
Jet911 airlift service founder Eli Rowe packed the company鈥檚 private jet with thousands of pounds of food and 10 volunteers
The 3,114-passenger ship will make three humanitarian stops in San Juan, St. Croix and St. Thomas instead of cruising to Aruba
The responding crew decided to make the elderly woman dinner after responding to her accidental alert
Flight nurse Dave Repsher was on a Flight for Life helicopter that crashed on July 3, 2015 and caught fire
Eddie Wu drove for 17 hours, served meals for 44 more, then drove back home in time to see his kids off on their first day of school
Retired FDNY EMT Salvatore Turturici was gifted a motorcycle after wanting to ride one since his cancer diagnosis
Academy Sports and Outdoors has hosted more than 400 responders who have traveled from all over the country to help victims in need
They鈥檝e lifted people into boats, connected families through social media, flagged down rescuers and, in one case, coaxed people out of a flooding apartment
Donnie Glenn and his wife Donna are traveling from shelter to shelter searching for people in need of medical attention
The store hosted a 鈥渇irst responder day鈥� before they opened to the public
Responders went to Wegmans planning to purchase pizza, but left with donated food, chips and drinks
The team was finishing a 10-mile canoe trip when they came across the elderly couple in distress
Jeremy English said he was driving when he saw a car pulled over with four overdose victims inside
The crew helped Margaret Durham after she appeared to be overheated
The Fire Explorers raised $1,760 for the families of Lahiri Garcia and Paul Besaw
Adam Shay was the first of 19 drug overdose victims to donate organs in Ohio in 2014
The deputy collapsed while supervising a work detail; six of the inmates immediately started to render aid
Yadira Arroyo鈥檚 family was gifted with a week-long, all-expenses-paid trip by the Bianca鈥檚 Kids foundation
Samantha Diaz helped arrange a flight from Destin to Louisville with a private pilot who flew the two teens back to Kentucky in his jet
Dusty Rousseau transported the 21-year-old, who relapsed after leaving rehab, to the hospital and asked staff to keep an eye on him until he could return
Accessible bus is used to transport wheelchair and ambulatory residents on a nightly tour of the Glittering Lights display at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Dolores Miozza offered to give the two paramedics money for the cake, but they turned her down
EMS providers across the country went above and beyond for their communities 鈥� no matter how big or small the deed
A photo of the napkin note surfaced on Reddit, which thanked the EMTs for their service
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