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By many accounts the world’s first formal emergency call number was implemented in Britain in 1937 after an angry reader wrote to the Times of London complaining that five deaths in a recent fire [...]

After the storm always comes the calm and taking advantage of the calm after their response to Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria we took the chance to speak with Reynaldo Ortiz, Executive [...]

Después de la tormenta siempre viene la calma y aprovechando estos días de calma después de los huracánes Irma y Maria nos encontramos sentados con Reynaldo Ortiz, Director General de la [...]

DIAL 911 TO CALL AN AMBULANCE IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: The D.R. has among the most advanced EMS systems in the Americas — as long as you’re in a major city or popular tourist lo

On Thursday, July 13, a scene played out on Playa Juan de Bolaño that has been all too common on our country’s beaches for too long: a two-year old baby wandered out of his mother’s sight for a [...]

MONTECRISTI, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (Oct. 21, 2015): Trek Medics International, a New York-based nonprofit organization that develops 911 systems in resource-limited communities, today announced a [...]

An emergency response system doesn’t function unless people call when there are emergencies, so we’ve been working hard to spread the word that the Paramédicos de Emergencia de Manzanillo (PEM) [...]

Google.org has awarded Trek Medics International a $250,000 seed grant to continue developing their innovative solutions for 9-1-1 emergency dispatching...

We arrived in Manzanillo on a Tuesday. A mundane day full of mundane tasks: buy coffee, coffee pot, coffee mugs, internet plan, and screens to keep the mosquitoes out. And running water. And an [...]