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Ed Tomany oral history interview, approximately 2012 to 2013
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Tomany received first aid training from the US Forest Service and the US Army in the 1960s. In 1968 he started running on Tonopah, Nevada's ambulance service. Though he had to stop running in the 1970s, he restarted his ambulance career in 1985 and received his EMT certification that year.
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Collection Name: History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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Don Vonarx oral history interview, 2013 July 26
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Vonarx joined the Lovelock, Nevada volunteer fire department and began riding the ambulance in 1984. He finished EMT Basic in 1986.
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Collection Name: History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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William Webb oral history interview, approximately 2012 to 2013
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After returning from the Vietnam War in 1973, Webb began taking EMT classes in Las Vegas, Nevada. Beginning in 1975, Webb served as a field representative in Humboldt, Lander, Eureka, Elko, and White Pine Counties in order to conduct EMT classes and tests, a job he did for the next nineteen years. After that, he served as the Elko ambulance service director until 2005.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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Rodney Wilcox oral history interview, 2013 June 29
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Wilcox joined the Lovelock Volunteer Fire Department in 1974 and became an EMT later that decade.
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Collection Name: History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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Dale Wilson oral history interview, approximately 2012 to 2013
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Wilson moved to Elko, Nevada in 1988 after serving in the military as a field medic. He took the EMT training course to re-certify. Wilson worked in mine rescue in the Elko area as well.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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Bobby Wortgo oral history interview, 2013 February 15
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Wartgow took EMT classes in Smith Valley, Nevada shortly after graduating high school in 1981. In 1982 he began volunteering with the ambulance service.
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Collection Name: History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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Elizabeth "Liz" Wilkening oral history interview, 2013 August 26
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In 1991 Wilkening was recruited as the first female member of the Lovelock Volunteer Fire Department in Lovelock, Nevada. She took fire instruction in Fallon, Nevada, and EMT training in Lovelock.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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Parry Winters oral history interview, approximately 2012 to 2013
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Winters took EMT training in 1986 in Tonopah, Nevada, and began running on the ambulance service. In 2005 she became an EMS trainer in Nye County.
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Collection Name: History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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David Womack oral history interview, 2013 March 14
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Womack began his EMS training as a fireman trainee in Hawthorne, Nevada in 1981. He later joined the Mineral County Fire Department.
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Collection Name: History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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Larry Bounty oral history interview, 2013 March 14
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Bounty joined the Boulder City Volunteer Department in Boulder City, Nevada in 1976 and became a professional fireman in 1979.
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Collection Name: History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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