A Tribute to Those Who Answer The Call: Honoring Our EMS Professionals

As EMS Week comes to a close, we pause to honor the extraordinary paramedics, firefighters/EMTs, dispatchers, and EMS professionals who stand ready 24/7 across the Puget Sound region. These professionals answer the call—day and night, rain or shine—bringing lifesaving care to our neighbors, friends, and loved ones.

In moments of chaos, fear, and uncertainty, these highly trained professionals bring calm, compassion, and lifesaving expertise to the people who need it most. Whether it’s responding to a cardiac arrest at a home in Kent, stabilizing a trauma patient in Bellevue, or comforting a sick child on Camano Island, our EMS teams stand ready—every hour of every day—to save lives.

At Medic One Foundation, we’re proud to stand behind them. But we can’t do it without you.

Your support fuels the very heart of emergency care:

  • Rigorous, world-class paramedic training that prepares our region’s best to perform under pressure.

  • Advanced medical equipment grants that give fire departments the tools they need to respond faster and smarter.

  • Community CPR classes that empower bystanders to take action when every second counts.

  • AED placements in underserved areas, ensuring more lives can be saved before help arrives.

Our region is known worldwide for its exceptional cardiac arrest survival rates—not by chance, but because of the remarkable partnership between paramedics, firefighter/EMTs, dispatchers, and the community. From the 911 call to the moment help arrives, every link in the chain of survival matters—and those on the frontlines make it stronger.

Behind every life saved is a network of readiness, and donors like you make it possible.

This week, we’ve recognized their skill, resilience, and humanity. However, the truth is that their work deserves to be honored every week. They carry heavy bags, heavy burdens, and the stories of people they may only meet once, but never forget.

To our EMS professionals: thank you for your tireless service, your strength in the hardest moments, and your unwavering commitment to care. You are the heart of emergency medicine in our region, and our community is safer, stronger, and more connected because of you.

So, as we reflect on the critical role of EMS in our communities, we invite you to join us. Make a gift today in honor of those who never hesitate to step forward in our time of need.

Because when a life hangs in the balance, your generosity helps tip the scale toward survival.

Donate in honor of a First Responder this EMS Week with a Memorial & Tribute Gift.