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Local and Regional EMS News
What is happening in Spotlight on ... Region 1
your area? Public Health Region 1 covers 30
counties in the Central Texas area
Let us know! and in 1991 had a total population
Are you planning a of 1,760,924. The largest county by
fund-raising fish fry population is Travis, with 584,682
or carnival? residents. According to April 15
A training class? data, Public Health Region 1 has
103 EMS services: 91 capable of
basic life support, three capable of
people on board? advanced, and nine with MICU
Elected new officers? capabilities. Of services with
MICUs, Bell county has three,
Send your news to: Travis county has two, and
McLennan, Hays, Brazos, and
Texas EMS Magazine Washington counties each have
Alana S. Mallard, Editor one.
Bureau of Emergency The region boasts of 5,902
Management people certified as EMS personnel
1100 West 49th Street as of March 26. Of that number,
Austin, Texas 78756-3199 1,868 were certified as ECAs, 3,088
as EMTs, 243 as EMT-Is, and 703
(512) 458-7550 as paramedics. There are also 75
course coordinators, 88 instructors,
and 112 examiners in the region.
Charles Webb, MD, is the regional
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program administrator.
Houston EMS director
first at crash scene
The place: New York City. The
scene: A USAir jet has just
crashed on takeoff at LaGuardia
Airport. The first doctor to arrive:
Paul Pepe, medical director of
Houston Fire Department EMS.
Huh?
In a profile published in the
April 6 edition of the Houston
Post, Pepe explains that he just
happened to be in New York,
riding the streets in an ambulance.
By chance, he chose the one that
would be first to arrive at
LaGuardia.
"'That," he says in the article,
"was not planned. I've been
lucky. Call it the Luck of the Irish.
I can thank my mother for that."
Most nights, though, Pepe
cruises around Houston in his red
1985 Ford Crown Victoria, re-
sponding to calls, or takes care of
patients at Ben Taub Emergency
Trauma Center. Since 1982, when
he arrived, the department has
seen a tremendous improvement
in its response time. Paramedics
and firefighters now answer first
priority calls in less than five
minutes.
But Pepe also maintains a full
life outside EMS, according to the
profile. He enjoys traveling, and
has been to every continent except
Antarctica. He has climbed Mount
Kilimanjaro and walked the GreatTexas EMS Magazine June 1992
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