Saturday, April 12th, 2025 at 12:00 PM – 3:15 PM, EMS Open House, 6575 North W Street, Pensacola, FL 32505, USA

 John Thomas Winskas Attended Event:

Attended Event- Saturday, April 12th, 2025 at 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM, EMS Open House, 6575 North W Street, Pensacola, FL 32505, USA

  • Got a ride from my father to the Escambia County public safety building for the Escambia County EMS Open-House.
  • Spoke with Carolyn Gray and Carline Klages about upcoming Brace events.
    • Took 10-20 Brace Flyers to place at neighbor's houses, PSC, and the east hill neighborhood.
  • Met Morgan, Woody, Chris, Ezzy, Rebecca, Warren, Eric, Colby and Heath.
  • Practiced placing a tourniquet on a fake limb with Rebecca.
  • Talked with Rebecca, Woody, Chris, Eric, and Colby separately about Escambia County EMS classes/training, EMT training/schooling options, and Paramedic training/schooling options.
    • Rebecca mentioned technical Schooling might be available for 400$, and that there were EMT and Paramedic Schools/courses at PSC and George stone technical college.
  • Spoke with Woody about the Florida Core Program (Coordinated Opiate Recovery Effort).
    • Practiced administering NARCAN on a dummy.
  • Learned about the CPR machine, and about possible CPR courses available through Escambia County EMS and how to drill for inserting lidocaine? into a bone.
  • Ezzy demonstrated the process of placing a breath tube, inserting the forceps into a dummy esophagus, and attaching a hand pump for an EMT to manual pump air into the dummy lungs.
  • Morgan explained the electronic breathing assistance machine, and the Cardiac Monitoring system.
  • Warren Explained the different types a few of the items in the EMS bags, The drug case/kit, the oxygen tank bag, and wound treatment bag (I apologize if the names of the bags are incorrect).
  • Ezzy & Heath demonstrated the Ambulance stretcher loading & unloading process and the ambulance seatbelts.
    • Heath explained 
      • past medical/wound trauma treatment experiences.
      • how to place a splint on a bone fracture and or helping set a fracture.
      • how to place a splint on a femur.
  • Met Chris, Colby and Eric when I grabbed some chilli and cookies.
    • they explained the types of classes available through Escambia County EMS.
  • My Father showed up at 3:15pm and I got a ride home with him.
I appreciate Escambia County EMS's and BRACE's service to the Community, and I look forward to continuing to volunteer to help spread the word about these types of events!




Location: 6575 North W Street, Pensacola, FL 32505, USA

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