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KTKC 2015 Fundraising Challenge: Week One Standings
We’re one week into the 2015 KTKC Fundraising Challenge, and as of 1400 Central time on Spetmeber 8, we’ve raised $5,037. That puts us about a quarter of the way to our fundraising goal, with three weeks to go. Team standings are here. I’m currently in 5th place, behind Team HBC Concealment, Team Dragon, Team ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - September 8, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Charity Kilted to Kick Cancer Source Type: blogs

KTKC Donor Spotlight: Columbia River Knife and Tool
New to the KTKC donor team this year is Columbia River Knife and Tool, known to the vast majority of outdoors types as CRKT. Hey, we’re feel a sense of solidarity for organizations with long names shortened into handy four-letter acronyms. CRKT makes quality knives, and there is a representative example in each of our ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - September 8, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Charity Kilted to Kick Cancer Sweet linky love Source Type: blogs

KTKC Donor Spotlight: Dreadnaught Industries
Alex Wakal of Dreadnaught Industries in Von Ormy, TX, has been supporting KTKC for several years now. In 2013, Alex kicked in an AR15 lower as a pot sweetener for people donating on behalf of my campaign. Last year, he donated a matched lower and upper for one of the prize packages, and that donation ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - September 7, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Charity Kilted to Kick Cancer Sweet linky love Source Type: blogs

What, Fourth Place? That Just Won’t Do!
Six days into the KTKC 2015 Fundraising Challenge, and I’m already in a distant fourth place with only $220 raised. Team HBC Concealment is kicking all our butts, but even newbie Team Dragon is beating me by over $500. What’s a guy gotta do to get you to donate? (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - September 6, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Charity Kilted to Kick Cancer Source Type: blogs

KTKC Donor Spotlight: Lonely Mountain Arms
Today’s spotlight donor is my friend and fellow Kilted fundraiser Ross Schacher. For Ross, the fight against cancer is a personal one. It has touched people close to him, and for that reason he is also one of our Kilted fundraisers this year. The Kel Tec P3AT -perfectly sized for a sporran – in this ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - September 6, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Charity Kilted to Kick Cancer Sweet linky love Source Type: blogs

I Just Gave These People $49. Here’s Why You Should, Too
I just joined the Association of Texas EMS Professionals. The yearly dues are $49. I don’t live in Texas. I don’t work in Texas. But I am licensed in Texas, and if I am going to walk the walk in advocating taking ownership of our profession, then organizations like ATEMSP will get my membership dues ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - September 6, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: EMS Advocacy Source Type: blogs

Inside EMS Podcast: The Five Food Evils
In this week’s episode of Inside EMS, Fit Responder President and EMS1 columnist Bryan Fass tells us about the five food evils. They’re five common foods that provide little nutritional value and should be eliminated from our diets. Perhaps not coincidentally, they are five foods that feature prominently in my diet. You should really check ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - September 6, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: EMS Health & Safety Inside EMS Podcasting Source Type: blogs

KTKC Donor Spotlight: Brownells
When I first went begging, hat in hand, for prizes for our first fundraising challenge, people told me, “You need to call Larry Weeks of Brownells. Great company, and one of the nicest guys in the gun biz.” Our first conversation was short and sweet: “Cancer charity? Organized by EMTs, cops and shooters? bunch of ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - September 5, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Charity Kilted to Kick Cancer Sweet linky love Source Type: blogs

KTKC Donor Spotlight: Virginia Arms Company
When we first started the Kilted to Kick Cancer Fundraising Challenge back in 2011, Virginia Arms Co. of Manassas, VA was one of the first companies to take a chance on a fledgling cancer charity, back when we weren’t even a 501(c)3 charity and they couldn’t even write off their donation. They gave us a ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - September 4, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Charity Kilted to Kick Cancer Sweet linky love Source Type: blogs

Inside EMS Podcast: Spree Shooters and Employers Behaving Badly
In this week’s issue of Inside EMS, co-host Chris Cebollero and I discuss the on-air murder of the WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman adam ward last week, and the decision by Beaufort, SC County Council to cancel retiree health benefits for all county employees. You know, the benefits they were promised when they hired ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - September 1, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Inside EMS Podcasting Source Type: blogs

Kilted to Kick Cancer 2015: Let’s Get It On!
Today kicks off the 2015 Kilted to Kick Cancer 2015 Fundraising Challenge. Twenty five teams. Four awesome prize packages. One common enemy. I’m asking you, my EMS and gun nut friends, my loyal readers, my social media network… … please donate. We’re got a $20,000 fundraising goal. It’s only 30 days in the distance, and ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - September 1, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Charity Kilted to Kick Cancer Source Type: blogs

Kilted to Kick Cancer 2015 Fundraising Challenge is Almost Here!
In less than 36 hours, we’ll be kicking off our 2015 Fundraising Challenge! In just 90 days of active fundraising from 2011-2014, we’ve raised over $60k for cancer research, and your dollars last year went to seed money for yet more research. Over 86% of funds donated to KTKC in 2014 went directly to cancer ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - August 31, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Charity Kilted to Kick Cancer Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

To Protect and Serve
Saturday, August 29th at noon, LSP Senior Trooper Steven Vincent will be laid to rest. Funeral services will be at Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Church in Lake Charles. Steven was murdered by a cowardly, subhuman piece of filth last Saturday, a man with multiple DUI convictions and a history of petty crimes, a ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - August 27, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: In the Line of Duty Source Type: blogs

Inside EMS Podcast: Performance Metrics and Death With Dignity
On this episode of Inside EMS, co-host Chris Cebollero and I discuss the story out of Charlotte, NC of MEDIC paramedics complaining that a new points system rewarding shorter time-on-task will encourage rushed and sloppy patient care. I’m not a fan of many performance metrics in EMS. While I acknowledge that we must track certain ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - August 22, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Inside EMS Podcasting Source Type: blogs

KTKC: How Are Your Donations Used?
Throughout our first three years of Kilted to Kick Cancer, we acted as a proxy to raise research dollars for Prostate Cancer Foundation and LiveStrong. And we did well at that, raising over $60,000 in only 90 days of active fundraising for those organizations. Yet, we found many who were reluctant to donate to large ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - August 21, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Charity Kilted to Kick Cancer Source Type: blogs