Cana Volunteer Rescue Squad would like to congratulate of on its own for being a winning partner in the North Carolina State Paramedic Competition. (as seen in the Mt. Airy News).

Congratulations to Roger Horton!

In claiming the title, the team of McMillian and Horton topped the best efforts of the Stokes team of Fred Lawson and Scott Brown, who had won the championship in 2005, 2007 and 2008. The Surry paramedics also outscored teams from Mecklenburg, Davidson County, Eastern Wake and Pasquotank-Camden counties.
 

McMillian and Horton and the other teams competed in a graded and timed exercise viewed by about 300 of their peers in a ballroom at the Sheraton at Four Seasons. In the exercise, teams were sequestered and each was called to a mock emergency on a set with two interior rooms of a family home. In one room, an elderly woman suffered heart failure. In another room, a young child in her care had accidentally overdosed on the older woman’s medicine. A schizophrenic relative showed up in the middle of the emergency to bring additional stress to the drill.