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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 [...]

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 [...]

One sunny afternoon, I was sitting with my neighbors drinking coffee in our plastic chairs trying to catch a breeze. I had been in site for nearly six months and felt that I had a pretty good [...]

IN APRIL 2015 we launched Beacon in the Dominican Republic in partnership with the local fire department, el Cuerpo de Bomberos Manzanillo, led by Colonel Ramon Soriano. Over the past year, the [...]

In August 2014, a $10,000 grant from Cardinal Health Foundation turned a few first aid classes and the prototype for Beacon into a first-of-its-kind rural EMS service , as well as additional [...]

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 [...]

Emergency medical services are the name of the game, which inevitably means car wrecks and traumatic injuries happen. And in our small corner of the Dominican Republic, when something big [...]