The Good Life – March-April 2019
Featuring fitness trainer Jake Haile. Local Hero - F-M Ambulance, Having a Beer with Travis Hopkins, Scuba Recovery and more in Fargo Moorhead's only men's magazine.
Featuring fitness trainer Jake Haile. Local Hero - F-M Ambulance, Having a Beer with Travis Hopkins, Scuba Recovery and more in Fargo Moorhead's only men's magazine.
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LOCAL HERO<br />
F-M AMBULANCE<br />
HELP IS ON THE WAY<br />
WRITTEN BY: BRITTNEY GOODMAN • PHOTOS BY: URBAN TOAD MEDIA<br />
Not all heroes wear capes, they<br />
say. I say, after learning about<br />
the efforts of a dedicated group<br />
of people, some of them wear<br />
Emergency Medical Technician<br />
(EMT) uniforms and work for<br />
F-M Ambulance, an Emergency<br />
Medical Services (EMS) provider,<br />
headquartered in Fargo. You will<br />
be grateful for their skilled, caring<br />
service if you ever need them.<br />
F-M Ambulance will be<br />
celebrating its 60th year of<br />
providing service to our region.<br />
F-M Ambulance began in 1959<br />
by private owners. It started with<br />
a location in Moorhead. Its base<br />
stations then moved twice <strong>–</strong> first<br />
to 1101 1st Ave. S, Fargo and<br />
then its current location of 2215<br />
18th St. S., Fargo, which was<br />
built in preparations for Y2K and<br />
opened officially on New Year’s<br />
Eve, 1999, where it has remained.<br />
F-M Ambulance Service is a<br />
wholly owned subsidiary of<br />
Sanford Health Systems.<br />
Don Martin, the current<br />
Communications Manager<br />
and Public Information Officer<br />
for F-M Ambulance, holding<br />
that position since 2007, has<br />
been with the company since<br />
1994, starting as an (EMT)<br />
Intermediate. He described<br />
his duties as, “overseeing the<br />
dispatch center, ensuring all the<br />
equipment and staff is working at<br />
full potential and that ambulances<br />
and specialty transport vehicles<br />
are being dispatched and sent on<br />
calls accordingly.”<br />
Martin described their work as<br />
critical: “We provide a crucial<br />
and critical service <strong>–</strong> advanced<br />
life support to the community.<br />
We provide a level of excellence<br />
that has improved throughout the<br />
years. Technology has changed<br />
and driven so much and allows<br />
us to provide better care. We have<br />
better outcomes and survival<br />
rates because of technology and<br />
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