Category Archives: Feature

Welcome

Founded in 1978, Foxwall EMS is a volunteer Advanced Life Support ambulance service. Foxwall is dedicated to providing the best possible emergency coverage to the Fox Chapel, Aspinwall, and Blawnox communities in north Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. On these pages you … Continue reading

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Blink

Tripp Clarke, Foxwall board member and creator of 321Blink, has created a short video segment featuring Foxwall.

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Raising Money for a New Home

By Tawnya Panizzi, Staff Writer Originally printed in the Herald (1 June 2006) Foxwall EMS is expected this week to kick-off its $250,000 capital campaign to help cover the cost of building its new home along Squaw Run Road. Having … Continue reading

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Emergency Emergency

Originally printed in the Winchester Thurston School Newsletter – WT Today – Winter 2003 Tom Moore ’04 and Winston Posvar ’04 began volunteering with an Emergency Medical Service in the fall of 2002, and last summer were certified as Emergency … Continue reading

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Foxwall Seeks Financial, Volunteer Help

by Jan Adam, contributing writer Originally printed in The Herald (6 December 2001) Austin Henry was face down in a puddle the first time Rick Duffy saw him. Henry and some classmates had been running and sliding down a muddy … Continue reading

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Saving Lives – It Goes Both Ways

by Ann McKenna Fromm Originally printed in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Saturday, January 13, 2001 Five years ago, I went back to school to become an emergency medical technician. I knew the stories: Paramedics saved lives. They had once … Continue reading

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Heart Scare Leads to Healthy Appreciation of Her Blessings

by Mary Lee Gannon Originally printed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (20 December 2000) About the time my newspaper carrier was pitching news of the Nasdaq onto my driveway Friday, I was creating my own plummeting index on an electrocardiogram. I … Continue reading

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Saving Lives and Studying

by Justin McClelland Originally printed in the Pitt News (November 17, 2000) This summer, Pitt sophomore Ben Abo found himself four vehicles behind the president of the United States while at home in Cherry Hill, N.J. Usually such a position … Continue reading

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