Texas EMS Magazine, Volume 17, Number 3, May/June 1996 Page: FOREWARD
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* * Is it time for EMS to have
EMS 911
-***e special license plates?A bout a year ago we received a let-
ter from Alfred Duque, a para-
medic with Frio County EMS, with a
suggestion that Texas needs a license
plate for EMS personnel in our state.
Mr. Duque explained in his letter that
he believes that a distinctive EMS li-
cense plate would be an honor and a
way to show the public the dedication
and commitment EMS people have to
the citizens of Texas. If you are inter-
ested in having such a license plate in
Texas, it will take at least 1,500 people
who will commit to purchase these
plates once they are produced. The leg-
islation for other special plates in use
now creates a $25 fee to be used by that
group as designated by the legislature.
If there are enough EMS personnel in
Texas interested in a distinctive EMS
license plate, legislation will be neces-
sary.
Please let us know if you would be
interested in purchasing a special EMS
license plate. We will use this column
as an informal survey of the the de-
mand for such a license plate. Please
write me a note with your thoughts
and ideas on this project. We thank Al-
fred Duque for his foresight with the
original idea.
As all of us know, emergency med-
ical service is still a fairly new profes-
sion. In Texas, emergency medical
service has been in existence for ap-
proximately 29 years. I remind you of
our young age to remind you that we
need to begin now to preserve the his-
tory of EMS. A big thanks goes to Steve
Diamond for having the foresight to
preserve some of our EMS history.
Steve has spent the last several years
collecting and restoring old ambulanc-
es. He is in the process of donating the
1962 Oldsmobile, on display at our
conference last year, to the Public
Health Museum of Texas. We will havesome pictures of Steve and the antique
ambulance in future issues of our mag-
azine.
Starting on page 10,
you'll find information for
Texas EMS Conference '96.
In this issue, we have a
general agenda and a list-
ing of all our preconfer-
ence classes. Our July/
August issue will carry a
detailed agenda of all our
classes. As usual, we'll
have three days of classes
that can earn you up to 15
hours of CE credit during
the regular conference and .
16 hours during preconfer-
ence. The big difference in
preconference classes this
year is that we are requir-
ing preconference attendees to prereg-
ister. That way we can get an idea of
how many people to expect. For gener-
al conference registration, you can pre-
register for $75; after November 1, the
price rises to $90. We'll see you in No-
vember.-
TEXAS EMS CERTIFICATIONS AS OF
MARCH 11, 1996ECA
EMT
EMT-I
EMT-P
TOTALCOORDINATOR
INSTRUCTOR
EXAMINER8,230
24,994
3,323
9,129
45,676391
1,588
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