Ready to respond
Toowoomba Ambulance Station, yesterday, 9.30am
Hannah Josephs
I HAVE lived in Toowoomba a little over a year. I previously lived in Brisbane and Dubbo before moving here.
Toowoomba is a very homely city, it’s not as busy as Brisbane.
I have been working as a paramedic for about two years.
I chose to become a paramedic because I wanted to work in the medical field, but I didn’t want to be stuck in a hospital.
In my spare time I enjoy reading, going to the gym and the beach.
This job always keeps you on your toes.
You never know what you are going to get each day, and you also get to meet interesting people.
Simon Cadzow
I have lived in the Toowoomba area about 10 years.
I spent most of my life in Miles.
It was good to grow up in the country. You would ride your bike to school.
I was an auxiliary firefighter in Miles before I decided to become a paramedic.
The reason I joined fire service was because I heard the truck go out to a job one day which I found out was a fatal accident and thought maybe I could help the community.
Working in the emergency services has its good days and bad days.
One of my most memorial moments on the job was when I delivered a baby by myself in 2007.
I was working at Agnes Water which is a single-officer station when I received a call to a job. There was a young woman who went into labour in the shower.
I remember being scared when I got the call for the job, but once it was all over I was euphoric.
I had to wake my wife up to tell her about the story.
In my spare time I enjoy running and going to the gym; you need to keep fit in this job because it is physically demanding.
Rachel Fenwicke
I moved to Toowoomba in January.
I spent a couple of years in Rockhampton before I moved here.
When I first applied for a job in Queensland I got the job in Rockhampton.
I enjoy the fact that Toowoomba is big enough to have access to everything you need, and it is also a lovely city to drive through with all its parks.
My family has a cattle farm in Walcha and so I thought about studying agricultural business at university before I made the last-minute decision to become a paramedic.
I like going to the jobs where a little old lady who has bumped her knee, but you figure out that she wants to have a cup of tea and a chat.
They’re more rewarding to me than the more severe jobs we go to.
Another aspect I enjoy about the job is that every day is different.