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Family Announces Scholarship to Honor Flight Nurse Killed in the Line of Duty

Emergency Medical Services Scholarship Formed
The family of Erin Eachus Reed a flight nurse and 24-year veteran of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Community have established a $5,000 scholarship in perpetuity to help others purse a career in EMS services.

Offered through the Emergency Nurses Association Foundation (www.ENAF.org), the scholarship will be awarded at ENA’s annual nursing convention this fall. This year’s conference is set for September 2007 in Salt Lake City, UT.

About Erin Eachus Reed
Erin Reed, a California native, was killed with the helicopter she was working aboard crashed into Puget Sound, near Edmonds, WA. Erin’s interest in trauma medicine grew from personal experience having suffered third degree burns over 30 percent of her body, the victim of a Molotov cocktail thrown off the roof at a high school graduation party in Petaluma, CA.

Erin spent nearly three months in San Francisco’s Bothin Burn Cetner/Saint Francis Memorial Hospital. She emerged with a passion for helping people in their time of trauma. She became the first female firefighter paramedic in Northern California. While working as a flight paramedic she put herself through nursing school. In 1996, she moved to Seattle and became a flight nurse. Erin would have turned 50 years old this March 23, 2007.

To Learn More
To apply for or donate to the Erin Eachus Reed Memorial Scholarship, visit ENAF.org at http://www.ena.org/foundation/scholarships/2007SCHOLARSHIPAPPLICATION.pdf. Deadline for applications is June 2007. For information on Erin’s family initiative to improve air ambulance safety, visit www.safemedlight.org or contact Stacey Friedman, sister of Erin Reed at (916) 934-0472 or (916) 425-3113.