Wild Rescues

A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton

Kevin Grange (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2021
Chicago Review Press (Verlag)
978-1-64160-200-6 (ISBN)

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Wild Rescues is a fast-paced, firsthand glimpse into the exciting lives of paramedics who work with the National Park Service: a unique brand of park rangers who respond to medical and traumatic emergencies in some of the most isolated and rugged parts of America. In 2014, Kevin Grange left his job as a paramedic in Los Angeles to work in a response area with 2.2 million acres: Yellowstone National Park. Seeking a break from city life and urban EMS, he wanted to experience pure nature, fulfill his dream of working for the National Park Service, and take a crash-course in wilderness medicine. Between calls, Grange reflects upon the democratic ideal of the National Park mission, the beauty of the land, and the many threats facing it. With visitation rising, budgets shrinking, and people loving our parks to death, he realized that—along with the health of his patients—he was also fighting for the life of “America’s Best Idea.”

Kevin Grange is a firefighter paramedic in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He is the award-winning author of Lights and Sirens: The Education of a Paramedic and Beneath Blossom Rain:Discovering Bhutan on the Toughest Trek in the World. He has written for Journal of Emergency Medical Services, National Parks, Backpacker, Utne Reader, Yoga Journal, and the Orange County Register. He has worked as a park ranger and paramedic at Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Grand Teton National Parks.

Author’s Note

Prologue: Return of Spontaneous Circulation

Part I: Yellowstone

1: The Definition of Insanity

2: Land of Large Carnivores

3: The World’s First National Park

4: Onboarding

5: A Call in the Wild

6: Alone on the Ambulance

7: Concessionaire Craziness

8: Bucket List

9: Job Security

10: Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health

11: Be on the Lookout

12: Sink or Swim

Part II: Yosemite

13: The Other “Y” Park

14: Lug Nut Rule

15: Thinking Outside the Box

16: Scope of Practice

17: Frequent Flyers

18: Meditation at Gunpoint

19: Somebody’s Worst Day

20: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

21: Swiss Cheese and Silver Linings

Part III: Grand Teton

22: The Wildland-Urban Interface

23: Good Medicine in Bad Places

24: Gone Too Soon

25: My Darkest Hour

26: Something for the Pain

27: The Call of the Summer

Epilogue: Wildfire

Erscheinungsdatum	26.03.2021
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	417 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
ISBN-10	1-64160-200-7 / 1641602007
ISBN-13	978-1-64160-200-6 / 9781641602006
Zustand	Neuware