Highlighting Trauma Providers In Our Region

The 911 Active EMS Providers from Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr and Willacy County participated in putting together an EMS recruitment video. This PSA began airing on Monday, February 12, 2007 on the following stations: Discovery, FX and Spike and will run throughout the end of this year. We would like to thank University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio through the Area Health Education Center (AHEC) for providing a $16,000 grant to produce this PSA. We will shortly be placing the PSA on our website for all to view.

The following Entities participated:

City of Weslaco - Lt. Rudy Garza, Captain Carlos Garcia, Ray Marroquinn, Orlando Rodriguez, Aaron Gomez, Chris Cuellar, Alex Cavazos, Javier Carranza. Thanks goes out to Manuel Varela for moulaging the victims.

City of Brownsville Fire/EMS - Nat Trejo

City of Port Isabel - Juan Villarreal, Jaime Ibarra and Jesus Hernandez

Los Fresnos Ambulance Service - Tony Puente, Margie Guajardo and Wally Bennett

South Texas Emergency Care Foundation - Rene Perez, Nathan Fisch, Desiree Machato, Pete Moreno, Mark Galvan, Carlos and Gary

Willacy County EMS - Val Flores, Candice Maldonando and Isaac Olivarez

Harlingen Fire Department - Mario Montez, Lt. Enrique Gonzalez, Sergio Lopez, and Josh Wenzel

Starr County EMS - Jorge Gonzalez and Rolando Gonzalez

MedCare EMS - Harvey Reyes, Joe Zamora and Dora Mendoza

TSTC - Paul Sweitzer, M. Cisneros, V. Rodriguez, M. Palacios, R. Ambriz, T. Vazquez, J. Rosales, J. Bermea and O. Cavazos as victims for PSA.

We are in hopes that this PSA will generate more interest to beginning a career with EMS.