num_pages: 304
description: Wild Rescues is a fast-paced firsthand glimpse into the exciting lives of paramedics who work with the National Park a unique brand of park rangers who respond to medical and traumatic emergencies in some of the most isolated and rugged parts of America. In 2014 Kevin Grange left his job as a paramedic in Los Angeles to work in a response area with 2.2 million Yellowstone National Park. Seeking a break from city life and urban EMS he wanted to experience pure nature fulfill his dream of working for the National Park Service and take a crash-course in wilderness medicine. Between calls Grange reflects upon the democratic ideal of the National Park mission the beauty of the land and the many threats facing it. With visitation rising budgets shrinking and people loving our parks to death he realized thatalong with the health of his patientshe was also fighting for the life of Americas Best Idea.
language: English
title: Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton
publisher: Chicago Review Press