Emergency Medical Responder Class has final meeting

Recently, the Gatesville/Coryell County Emergency Medical Responder class met for the final time.

All of the 16 students passed the class and the final examination. There will now be 16 more sets of hands who will be able to render emergency care to the community until an ambulance arrives. Then they will be able to aid the EMTs and paramedics who arrive on the scene with an ambulance.

The class, titled Extreme Education, was coordinated by Tara Feltgen. Those who helped as instructors were Chris Pate, Dwane Cummings, Scott Coleman, Robert Featherston, Christina Coleman, and Dylan Newsome – all of whom taught the classes without any compensation other than knowing they were helping put capable hands in the streets to rend emergency care.

Next, they will be able to take the National Registry Test for EMRs and qualify to be certified as Emergency Care Attendants by the Texas Department of Health.

The class members, listed by departments, included:

Flat Volunteer Fire Department

Firefighters: Heather Bauer, Aaron Tippit, and Tabitha Tippit

Jonesboro Volunteer Fire Department

Chief Bobby Buster and firefighters Dona Buster, Wyatt Faulkner and Brian Taylor

McGregor Fire Department

Firefighters: Jeffery Douglas and Benjamin Janousek

Levita Volunteer Fire Department

Firefighter Ethan Jenkins

Coryell City / Osage Volunteer Fire Department

Firefighter Justice Mckenzie

Gatesville Fire Department

Firefighters: Phil Gregory, Teristin Byrd, Michael Bernquist, Migel Mata, and Willie Joe Taylor.