Caity Pearson, Sarah Wright and Michael Burnett stand with Chief Dan Bird and EMS Coordinator Ryan Gilkey back at the Petersburg Firehall after earning top honors at the Southeast Regional EMS Council symposium in Juneau, where the Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department team swept a regional pediatric CPR competition.
When Fire and EMS Director Aaron Hankins signed up a team of Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department volunteers for a pediatric CPR competition at the annual Southeast Regional EMS Council symposium in Juneau last month, he told them they would thank him later.
Petersburg's EMS volunteers didn't just win the competition - they swept the field which included some far more experienced EMS professionals from bigger cities in Southeast.
But for Hankins, EMS Coordinator Ryan Gilkey, and the volunteers themselves, the trophy is less the point than what it represents: that PVFD volunteers work hard to b...
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