Beyond the Lights & Sirens turns 1

A year ago we were gathered in the ballroom at the Hotel Frank in San Francisco waiting for Thaddeus Setla to press the play button.

The time finally came to show the audience what we had filmed the previous November in the engines and ambulances of an American EMS system while UK Paramedic Mark Glencorse followed along.  A hush fell over the crowd of EMTs, Paramedics, friend, industry leaders and family when Thaddeus raised his hands and said, "Our online audience is watching it right now, can we dim the lights please?"



Chronicles of EMS - The Reality Series (Season 1 Episode 1) from Thaddeus Setla on Vimeo.

25 minutes later, after a few good laughs and plenty of smiles the show finished and I found Mark in the crowd.  We were near tears seeing what Setla had done to capture the emotion we had experienced months before.  It was like reliving all we had learned in our trans-Atlantic exchange.

The evening was a great success and the following morning found us in Setla's studio filming the first 3 episodes of A Seat at the Table.

1 year later we've released 23 episodes and have plenty more planned as well as in post production.

The reality series got a new name, thanks to our audience and network TV executives are curious to see what else we have in mind.

If they only knew.

In recent weeks you've seen A LOT of activity at the Chronicles site because we are gaining partners and growing rapidly.  No longer is "Chronicles" (#CoEMS on the twitter) simply about Justin Mark and Ted in San Francisco.  Chronicles of EMS is now only part of the content planned for he new First Responders Network TV.  We've partnered with fire centered production houses to create new original training and entertaining content similar to the EMS side.

And we're not stopping there.

If Tak Response taught us anything, it's that cross training outside your discipline is exciting, new and long over due.  For that reason law enforcement will also be included in FRN.TV, focusing on how we can all learn from each other before the incident instead of during it.

We never landed in prime time on Discovery Health traveling the world exploring EMS systems, but we have time to do better.

Keep an eye on the Chronicles of EMS site for details about our new partnership with the SFPA and Brady and how EMTs all over the country will soon be familiar with what we're doing.

In addition, Seat at the Table has expanded into new territory, sitting down with the International Association of EMS Chiefs as well as sign language expert Louise Sattler to discuss communicating with unique patients.

We're charging forward in every direction, working on both reality shows, training series, CE content (coming soon) and a host of scripted dramas, comedies and features that will bring EMS into the home of Americans in a way they have never seen before: Accurate and entertaining.

Thanks for all your support over the last 365 days, and I hope we can count on it in the future.

-Justin

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Thaddeus Setla said…
It never occurred to me that night that we would be well on our way to helping our industry see how we can do a few things better... Thank you Justin for all you have helped with and I look forward to many more years of inspiring collaborations
Bill Carey said…
Congrats to each of you.

Bill Carey
Mmorsepfd said…
Congratulations! Looking forward to the future of EMS (never thought I would say that!)
Sam Bradley said…
What drives this is your inspiration and Ted's passion, and of course Mark's general wonderfulness. I was there the day it started and I'm glad to be here now, much more a part of it than I ever envisioned. I'm excited about the expanded team and growing vision! - Sam