Pennsylvania EMT
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PA EMS links
PA EMS Regulations and Protocol page | direct link to BLS Protocols pdf file
PA EMS Registry Login to check status of your EMT license and con-ed.
Public search EMS license records Can be used by anyone to verify the current status of certain pre-hospital licenses.
Background/record checks
Pa. state driving record request
Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) criminal record check
Act 73 FBI Clearance
Act 33 Child abuse clearance
Act 31 Training on child abuse recognition and reporting (Not required for EMTs.)
Act 34 Educators clearance
Your regional PA EMS council can answer questions about your EMT license
If you have a question regarding your EMT license, or continuing education (con-ed), you can call your regional EMS council and they can help you.
There are 14 Regional EMS Councils in Pennsylvania. Here is a link to a map here. (.pdf file)
Website News & Activity
- - The onion site is online.
- - It may not look like it, but hours of work continue to be put into the site. Most of it has been behind the scenes and small fixes.
- - Space weather link added to "Links." Eliminated a page and added the contents to the home page.
Monitoring the following ongoing items:
- TMI: Three Mile Island nuclear power plant reactor is being restarted. Apparently, it was shut down because it wasn't profitable for the operator. The plant is being put back into service to power a Microsoft data center. Send any info about this to PaEMT.
We need more volunteers to get a Safecast radiation detector and put it online with the Safecast network. - 911 Outage: None
- Bills in the Pa. Legislature regarding EMS. I hope to post a write-up, sometime in August.
- Vector-borne disease: Since 2017 in Pa.: Asian longhorned tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis) is an invasive species spreading throughout Pennsylvania and other states. Pa. Environmental Protection article, PSU Ext. article, PSU Ext. Ticks & Disease. This tick can infect humans with a virus that causes severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome. Which may lead to a fatal hemorrhagic fever. This virus has not yet been found in any of the ticks in the U.S.
- Vector-borne disease: 2025-07-18 Philadelphia health department warns of mosquito-borne West Nile virus. PSU Extension, CDC
- Vector-borne disease: West Nile Virus and the Jamestown Canyon Virus can both infect humans and both have been detected in multiple counties. page on this issue. Pa. Dept. of Environmental Protection
- Harmful algal bloom, Avoid Contact: Lake Somerset. Tamarack Lake has improved from "avoid contact" to "advisory."
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Pennsylvania EMT/EMS News
2025-05-22 Lancaster EMS opened its $6 million headquarters
2025-06-04 State Rep. Causer Introduces Plan to Create Pennsylvania State Office of EMS Commissioner (H.B. 1491)
2025-06-05 Proposed Pennsylvania bill aims to save 911 EMS providers State Rep. Jill Cooper is the sponsor of H.B. 1152
2025-06-05 Federal legislation...H.R. 3791 - EMS Counts Act. The bill would increase the granularity of the firefighter occupational classification. "...under the occupational series "33–2011 Firefighters" of the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification System of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to include the following detailed occupations: (1) Firefighters; (2) Firefighter/EMTs; (3) Firefighter/Paramedics; (4) Firefighters, All Other.
2025-06-19 More local governments in Pa. would be able to tax more to cover fire, EMS costs under new bill. State Rep. Chris Pielli, prime sponsor for House Bill 393. Also mentioned, Act 54.
2025-06-30 Pa. House Approves Phillips-Hill Measure to Support EMS Providers, Expand Naloxone Access S.B. 95
2025-07-10 House Bill 1712 Introduced to require PEMA to have one phone number to use to communicate with legislators during weather emergencies.
2025-07-14 Pennsylvania EMS Conference 2025(online) Sign-up is open. It's online and live September 2nd through the 5th and available on-demand through November 30. The cost is only $10. Check out the website for more information https://paemsconference.vfairs.com
2025-07-18 Philadelphia health department warns of mosquito-borne West Nile virus
2025-07-20 Here’s Delaware County’s plan for addressing emergency response shortages following Crozer’s closure
2025-07-25 PennLive: ‘There’s no conspiracy:’ Dauphin County, statewide 911 outages explained
Upcoming Pennsylvania EMT/EMS Events
September 2-5, 2025 Pennsylvania EMS Conference 2025 (online). Live Sept. 2-5, on-demand through Nov. 30, 2025. Only $10. https://paemsconference.vfairs.com
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Links:
Links to make your own dashboard for your situational awareness or operations center.
Pennsylvania Dashboards
Weather | Air Quality | Roads & Traffic | Aircraft | Daily Satellite Imagery (zoom.earth)
Infectious Diseases | Additional Dashboards from the Pa. Dept. of Health
CDC Dashboards
Respiratory illness threat data channel | COVID | Nat'l Wastewater Surveillance
Crime Maps
Pennsylvania (crimegrade.org)
Pennsylvania (crimewatch.org)
Other areas of Pennsylvania (crimemapping.com)
Flood Maps
Other hazards maps
List of operating nuclear power reactors in the U.S.
Space Weather
NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)
This is the best source of information on space weather for North America and from the point of view of protecting humans on earth as that is the perspective NOAA evaluates space weather.