David Williams retires from KBEMS

A personal note from David Williams

FRANKFORT — I would like to announce my retirement from the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services effective April 1, 2006. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the EMS providers across the Commonwealth for your support and friendship throughout the years. I have served as an Advisor/Inspector since September of 1996 and it has been a very enjoyable experience. I am not completely leaving EMS as I have accepted a position with LifeNet as the Director of Program Development here in Kentucky.

I have spent the last few days reflecting on my experiences over the past 25 years and the time has really went fast.   I began my EMS career in 1980 as an ambulance attendant at the Brown-Haddix Funeral Home ambulance service in Albany, Kentucky. Ira B.Dyer’s parents formerly owned this funeral home and Ira made ambulance runs here as a youngster.

I attended EMT school at the Russell County Vocational School and was certified in December of 1980. (Cert # 11235) Jimmy Richardson was my EMT instructor. I was hired by the Somerset-Pulaski County EMS (A division of Lake Cumberland Emergency Medical Services System) in April, 1981. The director at the time was the late Perry England. I also worked under two other directors’, Rockey Johnson and Billy Miller. I still have my first pay stub and my rate of pay was $3.75 an hour.

I began paramedic school and was certified in 1983. (Cert # 541) I worked at Somerset until January 1994 when I moved to Texas. I worked as a medic in Texas for a year and a half and moved back to Albany in 1995. I worked a year for Transcare Ambulance service in Albany before being hired by Bob Calhoun at the State EMS Branch and the rest is history. Other services I have worked for include Russell County EMS, Adair County EMS, and Trans Star, in Kentucky, Levelland EMS in Texas and Pickett, Clay, and Overton County in Tennessee.  I want to say a special thanks to all of my coworkers at the board office for their friendship and support. Thanks for the memories.

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