Rescue workers of three different decades illustrate the increased sophistication of the emergency medical worker.

• Rescue Scene [2], Photo: 11/5/59 - Related article: 11/9/59 A private ambulance service contracted to answer calls from the fire and police after funeral directors asked to “get out of the business” of rescue.
• Rescue Scene [3], Photo: 1/3/74 (Jim Strickland) - Article: 1/4/74 By the 1970s, the Charlotte Life Saving Crew was on the job.
• Rescue Scene [4], Photo: 7/16/90 (T. Ortega Gaines) - Article: 7/17/90 Today’s rescue workers are known as Emergency Medical Technicians.

Firefighters

• Photos February 10, 1961, Article: February 11, 1961. The Southern Drug Company, 1400 E. Morehead, burned with such intensity that special equipment was required [5] to enter the building. Up close and personal, the media were on the job [6] as the fire roared at the Southern Drug Co. on Morehead Street. 

Hospitals

• Photo: 10/8/58 - Article: 10/9/58 - State-of-the-art equipment [7] arrived at Presbyterian Hospital at a cost of $30,000. A “Cobalt-60” machine for cancer treatment using radiation was installed in a specially designed room in the hospital’s basement. Hospital employees demonstrate treatment.
• Photo c. 1960 - 1961 - Article: unknown. Young women [8] were steered to traditional roles e.g. nursing via volunteer activities such as being a candystriper. Now known as junior volunteers, boys and girls 13 and older can get a first-hand look at the variety of health care careers.

         Photo: 9/22/94 (Gary O’Brien) Related article: 6/10/92.  Carolinas Medical Center [9]