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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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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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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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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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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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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Kretschmer moved to Nevada in 1966 and got her EMT certification from Clark County Community College in 1970. She worked in the ambulance service in Pahrump, Nevada before moving to Tonopah, Nevada and working in the ambulance service there. She has been training EMT students in Nye, Lincoln, Esmeralda, and Mineral Counties for several decades.
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Lemaire joined the Battle Mountain fire department in 1960. He served as chief of the department from 1975 to 1980. He then served as county commissioner.
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Lemaire joined the Battle Mountain Volunteer Fire Department in 1977. He took basic EMT training while studying at the University of Nevada, Reno. He joined the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District in 1978 and worked there until his retirement in 2007.
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