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Vermont Edition

How Vermont first responders cope with financial challenges, staffing shortages

By Mikaela Lefrak,
Tedra Meyer
Published February 1, 2023 at 3:17 PM EST
This hour, we'll discuss how the EMS in many Vermont towns are coping with financial and staffing difficulties and a new academy that's training future EMTs. Plus, information on how to stay safe in subzero temperatures.
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This hour, we'll discuss how some EMS providers in Vermont are coping with financial and staffing difficulties and a new academy that's training future EMTs. Plus, information on how to stay safe in subzero temperatures.

Some emergency medical service providers are having a tough time with staffing and finances. This hour, host Mikaela Lefrak will discuss the future of EMS in Vermont and a new academy that's training the next generation of first responders.

Plus, we'll talk to the state鈥檚 head of emergency preparedness on how to stay warm with the upcoming subzero temperatures. Here are tips on how to prepare for the cold temperatures.

Our guests:

  • Will Moran, director of the division of emergency preparedness, response and injury prevention,
  • Kate Rothwell, executive director,
  • Dani West, administrator, in Newfane
  • Mark Bosma, public information officer,

Broadcast live on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

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Mikaela Lefrak
Mikaela Lefrak is the host and senior producer of Vermont Edition. Her stories have aired nationally on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Marketplace, The World and Here & Now. A seasoned local reporter, Mikaela has won two regional Edward R. Murrow awards and a Public Media Journalists Association award for her work.
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Tedra Meyer
Tedra worked on Vermont Edition as a producer and editor from 2022 to 2024.
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