How to Use emergency medical technician in a Sentence

emergency medical technician

noun
  • The men in the car behind us were off-duty emergency medical technicians.
    — Mindy Van Wingen, Cosmopolitan, 2 June 2015
  • His friend, an emergency medical technician, urged him to go to the hospital.
    — Reed Abelson, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2018
  • The 26-year-old emergency medical technician was shot five times.
    — April Siese, CBS News, 9 July 2021
  • The emergency medical technicians and paramedics staffing those ambulances will also all be cross-trained to fight fires.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Olsen went back to his room before the emergency medical technicians arrived.
    — Nick Pachelli, Esquire, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The department has not hired an emergency medical technician or a paramedic this year.
    — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Hawksford said has worked as an emergency medical technician but is on disability and can’t get a job.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Two emergency medical technicians who happened to be on board stepped in to help deliver the baby.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The former emergency medical technician says a snowstorm this winter left her without power or a way to get out.
    — AZCentral.com, 23 July 2019
  • Court records said two of the officers were treated by emergency medical technicians at the airport.
    — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2023
  • At the time, calls for emergency medical technicians and paramedics outnumbered calls for fires, a trend that continues.
    — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • Within three to four minutes, the emergency medical technicians from the nearby fire station pulled up.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 25 June 2019
  • Ambulances need either two paramedics or one along with an emergency medical technician to run a 12-hour shift.
    — Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 June 2021
  • One new program, which will train students to work as emergency medical technicians, is slated to begin early next year.
    — Larry D. Urish, Oc Register, 25 Nov. 2025
  • During the first 10 minutes, teams of emergency medical technicians attend to crises on both sides of me.
    — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The city’s firefighters are all emergency medical technicians and many are also paramedics.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Margaret, an emergency medical technician for four decades, said the state’s opioid crisis is a key issue for her campaign.
    — Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 9 June 2018
  • The agency had a handful of emergency medical technicians assigned to the centers.
    — Robert Moore, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2019
  • An emergency medical technician who was driving the ambulance jumped out of the vehicle and tried to help the patient and the paramedic.
    — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was killed by police during a drug raid on her home in March.
    — April Siese, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Taylor was a 26-year-old emergency medical technician who lived with her sister in an apartment in Louisville.
    — Dylan Lovan, Star Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Taylor was a 26-year-old Black woman who was an emergency medical technician with dreams of becoming a nurse.
    — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2021
  • More than 270 firefighters, emergency medical technicians and paramedics showed up to combat the blaze and treat the injured.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Pike, after struggling with homelessness, is now an emergency medical technician in Lynn, with plans to attend nursing school in the next few years.
    — Elizabeth Koh, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
  • Criminal charges against paramedics and emergency medical technicians involved in police custody cases are rare.
    — Mead Gruver, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
  • But for the emergency medical technician part of the job, McDonell sometimes needed to know if someone’s skin was flushed or reddened.
    — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Aug. 2021
  • For patients, the changes could result in a broader range of services provided by emergency medical technicians and paramedics — as well as the bills to cover the costs of those services.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Jimenez, who was an emergency medical technician until a blood clot disorder put her on disability at age 25, tended to her the rest of the time.
    — Elizabeth Koh, miamiherald, 27 Oct. 2017
  • According to her filing, Galvez was first hired part-time in the city as an emergency medical technician in 2004.
    — Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician who had been settling down for bed when officers broke through her door, was shot multiple times and died at the scene.
    — Dylan Lovan, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2022

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