EMS Assist/ One Day's Pay

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Below is information regarding a special fund through NAEMT to benefit those EMS personnel personally affected by this tragedy.

My challenge to my fellow career EMS providers is this: we all work multiple jobs - we all know how easy it is to pick up an extra per diem shift or an extra OT shift. Pick up one extra shift and donate that money to those that need it in our community. These are Medics and EMT's that have lost everything and may no longer have jobs cause there ain't no more people to serve in those communities.

One Day's Pay - that's my challenge to you. DIG DEEP!!!

Scott T. Glaessgen, EMT-P

WEMS/TMAD/SVAC

P.S. Obviously volunteer EMS personnel can't pick up that extra shift but I challenge all of you also to DIG DEEP!!

NAEMT EMS and Rescuer Relief Fund

Many members of the EMS community are asking what they can do to help their

fellow medics affected by Hurricane Katrina. As NAEMT members know, after

9-11, NAEMT established the EMS and Rescuer Relief Fund to collect money for

the victims of the disaster. That fund remains operational.

NAEMT urges anyone who is able to make a financial donation to send a check

to the NAEMT EMS and Rescuer Relief Fund c/o the NAEMT Headquarters, PO Box

1400, Clinton, MS 39060-1400. Credit card donations can be made by calling

1-800-34-NAEMT. Individual and corporate donations are welcomed and

corporations are encouraged to match employee contributions. NAEMT has

pledged to cover the operational costs of the fund, permitting all donations

to the fund to be distributed in their entirety.

The money collected will be made available to EMS professionals who need

help re-building their lives in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina. No

decisions have been made yet as to precisely when and how the funds will be

disseminated. After 9-11, NAEMT disseminated $107,553 to assist the families

of EMS workers who died in the line of duty while responding to the

terrorist attacks.

NAEMT Donates $5000 to EMS and Rescuer Relief Fund

http://www.naemt.org/forTheMedia/Rescuefund.htm

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I really like that idea!

Let's also not forget that these charities, and people, will not only need money now, but long into the future, after this event has dropped from the level of attention it's getting now. So there's plenty of time to pick up that extra shift if you can't afford to do so now...

Edited September 3, 2005 by x635