EAST ADAMS EMS

02/11/2026

Always a great time training with the scouts!

02/10/2026

In 2025 East Adams EMS responded to 1,118 calls for service.

We are proud to serve all of Eastern Adams county residents and visitors in Ritzville, Lind, Washtucna, Benge, and surrounding areas!

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas everyone!!! 🎄 Have a safe and fun day

12/13/2025

Crews getting into the Christmas spirit! 🎄🎅🏼

We had a great time out in the community celebrating the holiday season!

12/13/2025

Thank you Ritzville PD for having us out this year! We had a blast, and look forward to next year!!

🎄👮‍♂️ Shop with a First Responder – Ritzville Police Department 👩‍🚒🎁

The Ritzville Police Department is proud to host Shop with a First Responder, a special holiday event that pairs local children with first responders for a morning of shopping, cocoa, and holiday cheer.

This program helps ensure local families have gifts under the tree, while building positive connections between our youth and the first responders who serve our community every day. Each child shopped for family members, followed by gift wrapping to make the holiday season even more special.

⭐ A special thank you to our partner agencies who helped make this event possible:

• Adams County Sheriff's Office
• East Adams Rural Healthcare
• EAST ADAMS EMS
• Ritzville Fire Department
• Ritzville Area Chamber of Commerce

🎁 We would also like to thank Scout Troops 888 and 889 for volunteering their time and helping wrap gifts. Your hard work and holiday spirit were greatly appreciated!

We are incredibly grateful for our community partners, volunteers, and local businesses who support this program. Your generosity and involvement truly make a difference in the lives of Ritzville families.

Thank you for helping us spread holiday joy and strengthen our community! ❤️🎅

11/28/2025

Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope everyone is having a safe and joyous holiday.

11/25/2025

We had a great time gathering our fellow fire districts and law enforcement officers to participate in a training for helicopter safety, patient packaging, and setting up landing zones!

These kinds of multi agency trainings allow us to provide seamless patient care when needed!

Thank you Airlift Northwest for coming down to spend the afternoon with all of us! And thank you to all our local fire departments and local police department for joining us.

11/21/2025

The last 2 weeks crews have been training on EVIP (Emergency Vehicle Incident Prevention) in both classroom and a cone rodeo course. Every member of our EMS team is required to attend and pass the course to operate our ambulances. This course was put on by 2 state certified EVIP instructors we have within our own agency.

EVIP teaches our members not only how to safely drive in both emergency (lights/sirens) and non-emergency calls for service, but also apparatus placement on scenes, the limitations of our apparatus, and driving in inclement weather conditions, which we frequently encounter in our service area.

We are always striving to better ourselves in anyway possible, not only for us, but to better serve our community.

11/19/2025

We are often asked “what is the difference between BLS and ALS?”

BLS (Basic Life Support) provides essential, immediate care like CPR and first aid, performed by a wider range of professionals, while ALS (Advanced Life Support) involves more complex, invasive procedures like IVs, medications, and advanced airway management, performed by specialized providers such as paramedics.

Paramedics are able to interpret ECGs to bypass to cardiac centers, administer advanced medications and blood products, provide pain management, and perform high level care to include caring for patients requiring advanced airway management, ventilators, and IV medication infusions.

When not on calls and transports our Paramedics work side by side in the hospital with hospital providers offering an extra set of hands and speciality care to stabilize critical care patients.

Our ambulances are equipped with ALS supplies and equipment and EARH provides at least 1 ALS staffed ambulance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to the citizens of eastern Adams county and all who pass through our community.

We are committed to providing the best prehospital emergency care to keep our community safe and cared for!

11/18/2025

11/18/2025

We had a great time doing extrication training with Lind Fire! Interagency training is so important for patient outcomes. Thank you Lind Fire for the invitation to join you guys!

11/11/2025

WSP reports Multiple Blocking Collisions on both sides of I90 near mile marker 223 (Ritzville). Reported I90 is closed in both directions.