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Kerry Swinney oral history interview, approximately 2012 to 2013
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Swinney took EMT basic training in 1980. Since then, Swinney has coordinated EMT and CPR training courses around Washoe County.
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Brian Taylor oral history interview, 2012 November 29
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Taylor took EMT basic classes at the University of Nevada in the early 1980s. He dropped out of college to pursue EMS work and has progressively increased his EMT credentials.
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Alan Tinney oral history interview, approximately 2012 to 2013
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Tinney joined Mercy Ambulance in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1974. In 1976 he finished EMT training at Clark County Community College. In 1986 he finished an engineering degree and retired from EMS.
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Casey Snyder oral history interview, approximately 2012 to 2013
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Snyder is the director of West Wendover ambulance service in West Wendover, Nevada. He is a certified EMT and paramedic.
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Mike Sullivan oral history interview, approximately 2012 to 2013
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Sullivan is the director of the Eureka County volunteer ambulance service, a post he has held since 2006. A native of Reno, Nevada, Sullivan received EMT training and worked as an ambulance operator in Tonopah and Pahrump before arriving in his current job.
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Bobby Sullivan oral history interview, approximately 2012 to 2013
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Bobbie joined the Pahrump, Nevada volunteer ambulance service in 1982 and got her EMT certification in 1984.
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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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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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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.
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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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