{"id":369,"date":"2019-07-17T04:31:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T04:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2019-07-17T04:31:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T04:31:44","slug":"florida-arms-its-paramedics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Florida Arms its Paramedics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n<p>A new Florida law that went into effect on July 1st, gives paramedics and physicians responding to active gunman incidents, hostage situations, narcotics raids, and other situations deemed as high-risk the ability to carry firearms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/news\/20190701\/new-law-allows-paramedics-to-carry-guns-at-high-risk-incidents\">The Palm Beach Post reports<\/a>&nbsp;that the new law applies only to medics serving in special-response situations and that medics will not be armed in their day-to-day duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some local fire-rescue agencies already employ medics who are authorized to carry firearms by way of being sworn law-enforcement officers and say the new law will not change how they respond to calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at The SUN News Report: <a href=\"https:\/\/sunnewsreport.com\/florida-arms-its-paramedics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/sunnewsreport.com\/florida-arms-its-paramedics\/<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Florida law that went into effect on July 1st, gives paramedics and physicians responding to active gunman incidents, hostage situations, narcotics raids, and other situations deemed as high-risk the ability to carry firearms. The Palm Beach Post reports&nbsp;that the new law applies only to medics serving in special-response&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emsmatters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Medics-to-the-Rescue-10836640.jpg?fit=800%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}