Metro’s Mohammad Abuakar Featured in Super Bowl Video by Matt Lo Cascio Super Bowl Sunday was a big day for Mohammad Abuakar, a Metro Paramedics employee assigned to the City of Wheaton Fire Department. Abuakar was featured in Essential, a tribute video to essential workers that aired on the CBS Super Bowl Pregame Show. Shot […]
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June 2020 Call of the Month Metro Paramedic Employees assigned to the Elwood Fire Protection District are being awarded Metro’s June 2020 Call of the Month. On Friday, June 12, 2020, the crews were dispatched to the industrial site for a patient who was bleeding. On arrival, crews made contact with a conscious, alert, and
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May 2020 Call of the Month Metro Paramedic Services is proud to announce the May 2020 Call of the month for its employees assigned to the Lyons Fire Department. Lyons Fire Department was dispatched for a person who was drowning. Upon arrival, the patient had already been pulled from the water by a neighboring department
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April 2020 Call of the Month At 4:15 am, on April 15, 2020, Rosemont Public Safety Department (RPSD) was dispatched to Interstate 190 in Rosemont for a multiple vehicle accident. Approximately 25 vehicles were involved in a pile-up collision due to snowy road conditions. Crews were met with cold temperatures, active snowfall, and roads so
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Metro Paramedics, Glen Ellyn Celebrate Essential Workers with Parade Metro Paramedics and the Village of Glen Ellyn put on a short parade last week to honor and celebrate essential workers who have been tirelessly serving the community throughout the COVID-19/Coronavirus pandemic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc9LPPWUj-M Glen Ellyn Village Manager Mark Franz helped put this together in short order.
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The Metro Paramedics March 2020 Call of the Month goes to the Sandwich Community Fire Protection District. Sandwich Chief Derek Hagerty nominated the crew of Ian Cerney and Connor Laube for their work on March 26 when they responded to a call involving a possible seizure. The crew arrived on the scene and found the
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February 2020 Call of the Month Metro employees Todd Taylor and Trevor Korinek, assigned to the Roselle Fire Department contract, responded to a call for a psychiatric evaluation. But upon arrival on the scene, they were confronted with a much different set of circumstances. They quickly assessed their patient who was unresponsive with inadequate ventilations,
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Minooka, Sandwich FPDs Recognized for January Calls Metro Paramedic Services (Metro) recognizes two of its employees assigned to the Minooka Fire Protection District for the January 2020 Call of the Month for a response to a unique call for a subject who became trapped, requiring a Technical Rescue. The subject was trapped from the waist
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Peterson, Suero Receive Metro’s Call of the Month Award Metro Paramedic Services (Metro) would like to recognize two of its employees assigned to the City of Elmhurst for Metro’s January 2020 Call of the Month. Metro employees Madeline Peterson and Stephanie Suero responded to a nearby active incident. Peterson and Suero quickly switched one of
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Metro Paramedics, Elmhurst Fire Dept. Awarded “Run of the Year” Metro Paramedics and the Elmhurst Fire Department were recently awarded the “Run of the Year” by Elmhurst Hospital. Gina Knight, a 20-year veteran with Metro Paramedics, described the award-winning run. “My partner and I just happened to be at St Charles and the Prairie path
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