Care Flight team serves fellow first responders during EMS week

  • Air Evac member Tawyla Bomar serves Killeen Fire Department Battalion Chief Justin Kemp at last week’s first responder cookout during National EMS Week. MASON HINES | DISPATCH RECORD
    Air Evac member Tawyla Bomar serves Killeen Fire Department Battalion Chief Justin Kemp at last week’s first responder cookout during National EMS Week. MASON HINES | DISPATCH RECORD

    With firefighters, police officers and EMTs being prepared to answer any calls of distress, it is important to recognize their willingness to serve, especially during National EMS Week.

    National EMS Week was authorized in 1974 by President Gerald Ford to celebrate EMS practitioners and the work they do in the nation's communities.

    This year's theme was Rising to the Challenge. May 15-21 was designat…