10/29/2026
We appreciate all of you!
🚑🚒🚓 OCTOBER 28 – NATIONAL FIRST RESPONDERS DAY 🇺🇸❤️
Behind every emergency call is someone willing to answer.
Today, East Boise County Emergency Services District (EBCED) would like to recognize the incredible men and women who dedicate their lives to helping others.
To our EMTs, firefighters, law enforcement officers, search and rescue volunteers, dispatchers, and all first responders—THANK YOU! ❤️
In our rural communities, responding to an emergency isn’t always easy. It can mean navigating dangerous mountain roads, searching rugged terrain, battling unpredictable weather, and leaving family dinners, holidays, and warm beds behind because someone needs help.
But when the call comes in, you answer.
You show up for complete strangers. You walk into situations others are running away from. You bring compassion into some of life’s hardest moments. You work long hours, often with limited resources, and sometimes travel miles into the unknown just to reach someone who needs you.
And when one agency needs help, others step forward without hesitation.
🚨 TO OUR INCREDIBLE PARTNER AGENCIES:
We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to:
🚑 East Boise County EMS
🚒 Wilderness Ranch Fire & QRU
🚒 Robie Creek Fire
🚒 Idaho City Fire
🚒 Placerville Fire
🚒 Centerville Fire
🚒 Thorn Creek Fire
🚒 Lowman Fire
🚓 Boise County Sheriff’s Office
📞 Boise County Dispatch
⛑️ Boise County Search and Rescue
Clear Creek
And to all the neighboring agencies, air medical crews Air St. Luke's LifeFlight network, volunteers, and emergency personnel who continually step up to help our communities we appreciate each and every one of you!
Different uniforms. Different agencies. One mission: Serving and protecting our communities.
One of the greatest strengths of rural emergency services is our ability to come together. It doesn’t matter whose name is on the truck, what patch is on the uniform, or which agency was originally dispatched.
When someone needs help, we show up for each other.
Sometimes that means providing additional manpower. Sometimes it’s navigating difficult terrain, locating a missing person, securing a landing zone, providing patient care, or simply being another set of hands when they’re needed most.
Every agency brings something valuable to the table, and together, we accomplish things that would be impossible alone.
We also want to recognize the families standing behind our first responders. The missed dinners, interrupted holidays, sleepless nights, and moments spent wondering when your loved one will make it home do not go unnoticed. Your sacrifices matter, too. ❤️
To every first responder who has answered a call in the middle of the night, stood beside another agency during a difficult incident, comforted a frightened patient, or gone above and beyond for a complete stranger—we see you, we appreciate you, and we are proud to serve alongside you.
💛 Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear turnout gear, badges, EMS uniforms, search and rescue gear, or dispatch headsets.
Today is about recognizing the people who answer the call—not for recognition, not for praise, but because helping others is simply who they are.
Happy National First Responders Day!
From all of us at East Boise County Emergency Services District, thank you for your dedication, courage, compassion, and commitment to keeping our communities safe.
🚑❤️ Stronger together. Always ready to answer the call.
