BOCA RATON – Boca Raton Fire Rescue Service Department’s Advanced Life Support Competition Teams have taken top spots at competitions in South Florida and Orlando.
Team A consisting of paramedic Jeff Lazzeri, Eric Alexander, James Hagg and Shea Miller took first place and Team B consisting of paramedics Robert Parks, Mike Sember and Evan Gaub took second place at the Randy Boaz EMS Competition held in Miami..
At the University of Miami Stephanie Brown ALS Competition in Miami Team B came in third and at the Clinical Conference on Pre Hospital Emergency Care, ClinCon, – held in Orlando, Team A came in second place.
Members of the elite competition teams put in hundreds of hours of training and studying on their own time to prepare for these events.
Boca Raton Fire Rescue Services Department has been sending teams to competitions since 1981 throughout the state, country and in South Africa. Competitions and seminars such as these are instrumental in helping to educate and keep paramedics skills at an optimum level.