Delaware County EMS

05/29/2026

It’s that time of the year for the Delaware County Emergency Management fan drive for People In Need, Inc.
Drop new box fans off to any DCEMS station and we’ll get them to PIN. Thanks in advance for your generosity in keeping Delaware County cool!

Happy Friday, Delaware County! Monday officially begins the Delaware County Emergency Management Fans For Friends box fan drive to help Delaware County residents in need beat the heat this summer. Extreme heat is the #1 cause of weather-related deaths in the US each year. Working with our partners at People In Need, Inc. (PIN), we set a goal of 350 donated box fans to be distributed to Delaware County residents served by PIN. Last year, your generosity positively impacted 244 local families. A special shout-out to our donation collection partners at all of our fire departments, EMS stations, and public libraries in Delaware County, as well as at SourcePoint and PIN. Starting Monday, June 1st, and continuing through September 15th, you can drop off a new box fan at any of these locations. Please see the flyer for days/times. Will you help us help a friend in need? Delaware County District Library Wornstaff Memorial Public Library Community Library - Sunbury, OH @ SourcePoint: Thrive after 55

05/26/2026

Today DCEMS Medic 3, Captain 462 and DelCoco911 participated in Camp Skeeter at Oak Creek Elementary Olentangy Schools. Students learned about when to dial 911, what is an emergency, our equipment, and what paramedics do.
This is always a very fun event for both the kids and our staff and we really appreciate the invite!

05/25/2026

Today we pause to remember and reflect on those who made the ultimate sacrifice. We appreciate and are indebted to those individuals and we remember them today and throughout the year.
Thank you, and we hope everyone has a safe Memorial Day.

05/24/2026

And our final post this evening and of EMS week 2026 is about the future of DCEMS. As the county grows, so will we to accommodate the needs. One significant step to accommodate this growth in 2019 was to add Medic 11 in City of Sunbury, Ohio to serve the area and the growth in Berkshire Township, Ohio. The next step was creating an agreement with BSTG Fire District to build a joint station for their equipment as well as Medic 11. We broke ground on this station in March of last year and have been watching it come together intently.
And today is the day. As of this morning our crew of Lt. Wortz, and Paramedics St. John and Walton are in for good. We’re incredibly excited about what this building stands for, we’re excited for improved service to the area, and we’re happy to continue serving and growing for the future.

05/23/2026

Continuing our day celebrating the men and women of DCEMS both past and present, we are excited to share about our first-ever retirees breakfast hosted in conjunction with the IAEP Local R7-11 and the Delaware County Citizens Academy Alumni (Delco EMS Citizens Academy Alumni). All groups joined together to serve 15 of our retired members at the Brown Township Delaware Ohio hall in Kilbourne. It was a great time for our retired members to gather around the table, have a meal, and reminisce about their time at DCEMS. These 15 individuals that joined us today provided a combined total of 375 years of service to the residents of Delaware County Ohio. As we close out National EMS Week, we are thankful for the years of service these men and women gave to Delaware County to lay the foundation for the agency we are today.

05/23/2026

We’ve made it to Saturday, the last day of EMS week 2026 and the theme for today is remembrance. DCEMS has a rich history of service to the community and excellence in patient care and none of that would be possible without those who did the job before us and those in the job now. Whether these individuals are still with us or have passed away, we are indebted to them for their contributions to the community.
We’re limited in how many photos we can post so we’ll be including more in our comments and on our stories. We hope you will do the same!

05/23/2026

And our final recognitions on Recognition Day of EMS weeks belongs to those who have put forth significant efforts for the betterment of our department, our community, prehospital medicine and beyond.
We are proud to recognize the following individuals with the following awards:
Directors Award - Lt. Travis Ries
Excellence in Service Awards - Paramedic Cory Gherman
Coordinator or Officer of the Year - Coordinator Ben Berger
Medical Director's Award - Paramedic Robert Glaze
Customer Service Award - Paramedic Michael Rezentes
EMT of the Year - EMT James Bebris
Paramedic of the Year - Lt. Jess Paqari

Congratulations to all our award recipients and thank you all for your contributions to the health and wellness of our community.

05/23/2026

New for 2026 are clinical excellence awards. These are given to crews who provided extraordinary care in difficult or unique circumstances and had a significant impact on the outcome for the patient.
This years DCEMS awarded four clinical excellence awards to:
DCEMS Lt Jeff Moore, Paramedics Julie Shaner and Scott Thomas, and Elm Valley Joint Fire District Firefighters Sarah St. John and Jack Vogel
DCEMS Lt Seth Riddlebarger, Paramedic Mike Rezentes and EMT James Bebris and
Genoa Township Fire Department Firefighters Kevin Jackson, Tony Criss, Abdirahman Abdulle and NoahWestrick
DCEMS Capt. Tim Davis, Lts Kali Stewart and Jess Paqari, and Paramedics Mat Brant and Griffin Thompson
DCEMS Paramedics Mat Brant, Dana Philips and AJ Stauffer.

We thank you all for what you did to serve our patients durring challenging and difficult situations.

05/23/2026

Our next set of recognitions is for our Stork and Phoenix Awards! Our clinicians receive stork awards for field childbirth cases, and Phoenix awards for successfully resuscitating a cardiac arrest when the patient is neurologically intact at hospital discharge.
This year we awarded one Phoenix and four stork awards.
Congratulations for Phoenix award recipients are: Paramedics Cory Gherman, and Cameron Blais, AEMT Tom McKelvey, Capt Tim Davis, and from Tri Township Fire District, Fire Chief Tim Carr, FF Cameron Rospert and FF Craig Norman
And Stork award recipients from four separate events include
from DCEMS: Paramedics Kamryn Sutherland, Griffin Thompson, Nathan McClure, Cameron Blais, Ben Tuttle, and Jason Walton. Lieutenant Dan Jividen, Kali Stewart, and Justin McLaughlin, and Captains Jude James, Tim Davis and Jarrod Tupps.
Additionally, in these incidents our crews were supported by FF Josh Guy, Tom Kraft, Richard Stewart, Pat McDonough, Andrew Crooks, Issac Swartz, and Lt. Chad Cavinee, from BSTG Fire District and Jeremy Moss and McKenna Vandyke of Berlin Township Fire Department - Delaware County, Ohio.

It takes a lot of people to save a life and a lot of people to bring a new life into the world. We thank everyone who did that in this past year.