EMT Utah Helps You Prepare for a Natural Disaster Because it is not IF, but WHEN!

April 8, 2014 Salt Lake City: Earthquakes can be scary. Growing up in California, sitting on top of the famous San Andreas Fault, earthquake drills were a constant. As a kid I remember crouching under my desk, my hands laced behind my neck imagining the school shaking apart and what might happen to my dog Synbad, at home. When a 6.4 quake hit the San Fernando Valley in February 9th, 1971 we watched as a huge chandelier hanging over our dining room table crashed on top of it impaling the tablecloth in the floor. Of course we were all safely ensconced under door jambs scared to death, but afterwards we were knocked breathless by the power and fierceness of th read more...