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Syracuse Rescue Service Syracuse Rescue Service is an Emergency Medical Service that provides Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Life Support (ALS) service.

SRS provides 911 service, interfacility transfer, and ALS intercept.

09/25/2026

⚡ SCENARIO TIME ⚡

You are at a fall ball game on a Saturday morning when a man two rows down slides off the bleachers onto the grass. His body goes stiff and then starts jerking, his eyes are open but he is not with you, and there is foam at the corner of his mouth.

Somebody shouts to hold him down. Somebody else says to get something in his mouth so he does not swallow his tongue.

What do you do first?

Tell us in the comments. We will walk through what actually helps tomorrow.

You do not need any training to play along. Most of what matters here is knowing what not to do. 👇

Today is the first day of fall, and around here the pager runs on seasons the same way everything else does.Summer is wa...
09/23/2026

Today is the first day of fall, and around here the pager runs on seasons the same way everything else does.

Summer is water and heat and county roads full of people going somewhere. Fall brings equipment out of the shed and a lot of long days that start before light. Winter is ice, and chimneys, and driveways we cannot always get up. Spring is storms and everybody outside again after months of being in.

You learn to feel the year coming. Somewhere in late September a few of us start checking the weather a little more carefully, because harvest has its own rhythm and its own risks, and the calls change with it.

There is something steadying about that. The work does not really get easier, but it does become familiar, and knowing roughly what the season is likely to bring is its own kind of readiness.

So here is to fall. To combine lights out past dark, to the first cold morning nobody is ready for, and to everybody working long hours to get the crop in.

What is your favorite part of fall around here? 👇

A quick car seat reminder for Nebraska families. 💙Whether you are headed to school, daycare, practice or into town, Nebr...
09/20/2026

A quick car seat reminder for Nebraska families. 💙

Whether you are headed to school, daycare, practice or into town, Nebraska law requires:

- Children to ride rear-facing until age two or until they reach the seat manufacturer’s height or weight limit

- Children younger than eight to use an approved car seat or booster

- Children younger than eight to ride in an available back seat with a seat belt

- Children ages eight through eighteen to use a seat belt or booster

These rules apply to anyone driving a child, including parents, grandparents, babysitters and family friends.

Child Passenger Safety Week is a good reason to check the labels, tighten the installation and make sure the harness still fits correctly. If you are unsure, Saturday, September 26, is National Seat Check Saturday, when certified technicians offer free car seat guidance.

A few minutes spent checking today can make a life-saving difference on Nebraska roads.

09/18/2026

You may notice some new faces riding along with Syracuse Rescue in the coming months, and we are very grateful to have them.

Becoming part of the squad does not happen overnight. New volunteers begin by observing, listening and asking questions. From there, they complete months of classroom instruction before responding alongside experienced members for as long as they need.

No one is expected to know everything on the first day, and no one is asked to figure it out alone. Every new volunteer is given the time, training and support needed to feel prepared before taking on more responsibility.

Most of the people completing this training are also working full-time jobs, raising families and managing all the responsibilities of everyday life. They are choosing to make room for one more commitment because they want to be there when someone in our community needs help.

We are proud of the people who recently took that first step, and we are thankful for the experienced members, instructors and families helping them along the way.

The next time you see a new face with Syracuse Rescue, know that you are watching one of your neighbors learn how to care for this community. Please help us welcome them. 💙

Harvest is starting, which means the roads around here are about to change for a few weeks. There will be combines and g...
09/16/2026

Harvest is starting, which means the roads around here are about to change for a few weeks. There will be combines and grain carts moving between fields at all hours, often right at dusk when the light is worst. A loaded grain cart is enormous, it is slower than it looks, and it cannot stop the way your pickup can.

A few things that keep this simple:

- Slow down early when you come up behind equipment. The gap closes much faster than your eye tells you, because you may be doing sixty and they may be doing fifteen.
- Do not pass on a hill, on a curve, or near a field entrance. If that equipment is drifting left, it is very likely turning left into a field rather than pulling over for you, and that is where these crashes happen.
- Wait for the operator to wave you around. They can see farther down the road than you can from behind them.
- And give them room at intersections. Wide equipment needs the whole road to make a turn.

To the folks running long days to get the crop in, we see you out there. Watch your fatigue, and take the extra minute on the road even when you are behind. Everybody gets home this fall. That is the goal. 💙

Twenty five years ago this morning, three hundred and forty three firefighters, along with paramedics, EMTs, and police ...
09/11/2026

Twenty five years ago this morning, three hundred and forty three firefighters, along with paramedics, EMTs, and police officers, went into buildings that everyone else was running out of.

They did not do anything that day that they had not already agreed to do on every ordinary day before it. That is the part we think about.

We are a small volunteer squad in Nebraska and our work looks nothing like theirs did. But the thing underneath it is the same. You hear the tone, and you go, and you do not get to know first what you are walking into.

Today we are thinking about the people who went, and about the families who have carried the twenty five years since.

We will not forget them. 💙

People picture training night as a classroom with somebody at a whiteboard, but it’s not really like that.It is a handfu...
09/11/2026

People picture training night as a classroom with somebody at a whiteboard, but it’s not really like that.

It is a handful of us at the barn on a weeknight, usually still in work clothes, pulling equipment out and putting it back. Somebody runs a scenario. Somebody else plays the patient on the concrete floor and complains about the concrete floor. We practice the things we do not do often enough to have them memorized, because those are exactly the ones that go wrong under pressure.

There is a lot of repetition. You will do the same skill four times in a row until your hands know it without your brain being involved, which is the entire point, because at two in the morning in somebody's bathroom your brain is not going to be much help.

There is also a lot of laughing, a lot of discussions, and even some jokes that get cracked. The thing we have to remember is, you cannot do this work grim all the time, and the crew that jokes together on a Tuesday night is the same crew that stays calm on a bad call.

It is a couple of hours, once a month, and it is honestly one of the better parts of being on this squad.

What is a skill you have had to practice until your hands just knew it? 👇

09/10/2026

🫀 SCENARIO ANSWER 🫀

Yesterday, we had a man leaning on a tailgate, sweating, gray in the face, rubbing his chest and telling you it was heartburn. A lot of you called it immediately.

Call 911. Do not drive him in yourself, and do not wait to see if it passes.

Here is why that matters more than it sounds. Heart attacks in real life very often look like this. Not somebody clutching their chest and dropping, but somebody uncomfortable, a little sweaty, insisting they are fine and asking you to leave it alone. The insisting is almost part of the symptom list.

While you wait, have him sit down and stay still. If he is not allergic and has no reason to avoid it, an aspirin chewed rather than swallowed can help. Loosen anything tight around his neck. Stay with him.

And do not put him in the truck. If his heart stops on the way, you are alone on a county road with no way to help him. In the ambulance he has a monitor, oxygen, medication, and two people whose entire job is what happens next.

Worth saying plainly. You will not be in trouble for calling and being wrong. We would far rather make that drive for nothing. 💙

You may have noticed in the past 9 months our social media has really taken off. Sharing information, raising awareness,...
09/09/2026

You may have noticed in the past 9 months our social media has really taken off. Sharing information, raising awareness, and showing insights into the daily life in EMS is something Syracuse Rescue has always valued.

But when we're on duty, working full time jobs, and trying to keep up with family life; social media was the last thing on our minds.

That's where Heather with Oak Street Marketing, LLC came in. We are so thankful to Heather for working so hard for SRS. She has really dug into the world of EMS and I know we've all learned things from each other since she's started working with us.

So here's a Thank You to Heather today for helping us spread awareness and education about EMS.

Oh -- and she's a Syracuse local -- she truly cares about our success for our community as well.

If you need help with your social media please check her out!

(posted by Hillary 🙂 )

09/08/2026

🫀 SCENARIO TIME 🫀

Your father in law is helping you unload feed on a Saturday afternoon when he stops, leans against the tailgate, and says he needs a minute. He is sweating more than the work calls for, and he keeps rubbing at the middle of his chest.

He tells you it is heartburn. He says he had sausage for breakfast. He asks you to go get him a glass of water and says he will be fine in a minute.

You notice he is a little gray in the face, and he is not really catching his breath.

What do you do first?

Drop your answer in the comments. We will walk through what actually matters here on Saturday.

No medical background needed to play along. This one comes down to whether you are willing to make somebody a little annoyed with you. 👇

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Syracuse, NE
68446

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