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==Etymology== {{original research|part=section|date=September 2023|reason=It lacks a citation in support of the proposition that this was the etymology. These citations only show examples of usage, but don't seem to describe the origin of the term as claimed.}} The use of the term "first responder" in the current sense first emerged in the [[United States]] in the 1970s. Perhaps the earliest uses in print occurred in two articles in ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' in August 1973, about proposed [[ambulance]] regulations in [[Massachusetts]]. {{blockquote|"…any police or fireman who staff a 'dual-purpose' vehicle would have to be trained to offer 'first-responder' care — that is, to stabilize a patient until more sophisticated help arrived."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Knox|first=Richard A.|date=12 August 1973|title=Western Mass. foes threaten proposed ambulance regulation|page=37|work=Boston Globe|access-date=}}</ref> "The chances are even better that your emergency call will be answered by a police or fire vehicle doing double duty instead of an adequately equipped ambulance and a paramedic trained in 'first responder' care."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Knox|first=Richard A.|date=20 August 1973|title=Emergency ambulance service found wanting in Mass.|page=3|work=Boston Globe}}</ref>}} There were some earlier uses of "first response", though not "first responder", in this sense. They included an article in the ''[[Grand Junction Daily Sentinel]]'' in March 1972,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wright |first=Alice |date=18 March 1972 |title=Emergency medical care community responsibility |page=8 |work=The Daily Sentinel }}</ref> and another about the formation of a "First Response Group" composed of volunteers in [[The Burlington Free Press|''The Burlington'' ''Free Press'']] in April 1973.<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 April 1973 |title=Volunteers form response group |page=4 |work=Burlington Free Press }}</ref> A few months after its use in the ''Globe'', the term "first-responders" appeared in a ''[[Boston Herald]]'' article about a master plan for emergency care from the Health Planning Council of Greater Boston. One of the recommendations in the plan, reported the ''Herald'', was that "All ambulance personnel and first-responders (who are general police and firemen) should be adequately trained in emergency care such as cardopulmonary [''sic''] resuscitation."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Langone |first=John |date=11 May 1974 |title=Emergency aid reform told |page=1 |work=Boston Herald }}</ref> "First-responder" was also used in a July 1974 classified advertisement for a deputy chief of EMT training—"to assist in developing and implementing statewide training programs for EMT's and first-responders"—from the [[Massachusetts Department of Public Health]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 July 1974 |title=Office of emergency medical services |page=6 |work=Chicago Tribune |department=Classified Advertising }}</ref> The term began appearing in newspaper articles from other parts of the United States in the second half of 1974, and was in widespread use by 1975. At some point, the [[dash]] between "first" and "responder" disappeared.
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