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Marjorie Holland oral history interview, 2013 February 01
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A native of Las Vegas, Nevada, Holland began riding along with the fire department after 1970. She became the first woman to be licensed as an EMT after a course administered by the Clark County Health Department. She was also the first woman to finish the paramedic course at Clark County Community College.
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Edwin "Flip" Homansky oral history interview, 2013 March 14
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Homansky moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1979 and worked in the emergency rooms of Valley and Desert Springs Hospitals. In 1986 he joined the Clark County Medical Advisory Board and has served two terms as chairman.
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Bernice Johnson interview photographs, approximately 2012 to 2013
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After graduating from Tonopah High School in Tonopah, Nevada, Johnson helped with shelter management at the Civil Defense Authority. She was later part of the ambulance service in the area, a job she carried out for over 40 years.
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Pat Irwin oral history interview, 2013 January 17
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Irwin served as a volunteer firefighter in Lovelock, Nevada. In 2010 Irwin took a state leadership position for EMS in Nevada.
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Richard Jackson oral history interview, 2012 December 13
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Jackson joined the Fernley Volunteer Fire Department in 1971. He later became an EMT and received experience by working at both St. Mary's and Washoe Med hospitals.
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Nancy Knighten, Rusty and Art Johnson, and Vicki Serfoss oral history interview, 2013 January 30
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These four people worked in EMS in Esmeralda County, Nevada. Art Johnson was a combat medic and became the Civil Defense Coordinator in 1977, and his wife Rusty accompanied him on ambulance runs. Knighten joined the ambulance service in Fish Lake Valley and became an EMT, and she has worked in the area for 20 years. Serfoss became an EMT after moving to Dyer, Nevada in 1979.
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Lori Johnson oral history interview, 2013 March 14
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Johnson joined the volunteer EMT service in Mesquite, Nevada, after taking EMT classes there in 1995. She has continued to work for the department as it has professionalized.
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Will Johnston oral history interview, 2013 July 18
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Johnston took his first EMT class in 1971 and began working on the ambulance service in Carlin, Nevada. He is currently the chief of the Carlin Volunteer Fire Department.
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Allen Kightlinger oral history interview, approximately 2012 to 2013
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Kightlinger became a member of the Douglas County Fire and Ambulance Company in 1972. In 1989 he moved to Elko, Nevada, and worked with the Regional Fire Management Office. In 1997 he became deputy chief of the Elko Fire Department, then chief in 2000, and he retired from that post in 2011.
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Connie Antone-Knoll oral history interview, 2013 February 12
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Antone-Knoll received her MD from the University of Colorado in 1976. She moved to Fernley, Nevada, in 1981, where she began training the Fernley Fire Department members.
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