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| RCCP Team Pursues International EMS Title |
As the nation recognizes the month of September as National
Preparedness month, the National Champion San Diego County paramedic
team will show off their emergency response skills as the United States’
representatives at an international emergency medical services (EMS)
competition in Australia from September 26-28.
The team is competing on behalf of the San Diego Regional Cooperative
Care Program (RCCP),an innovative public-private partnership in San
Diego County and is comprised of Dannie Myers from American Medical
Response (AMR) San Diego, Jim Marugg from the San Miguel
Consolidated Fire Protection District and Cory Brown from the
Bonita-Sunnyside Fire Protection District. The paramedics advanced to the
international competition by winning first place at the fourth annual national
EMS Games in Baltimore, Maryland in March.
The international competition, part of the Australian College of Ambulance
Professionals’ Asia Pacific International Conference, will begin with
preliminary rounds September 26 and conclude on September 28 with the
announcement of the winners. The team departs for Australia on
September 20.
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