Life and Sirens Podcast

11/24/2025

Episode 52: “What Would You Do If…” — Real EMS Judgment Calls

Skills can be taught. Protocols can be memorized. But judgment? That only comes from the messy calls, the gray-area moments, and the split-second decisions that never look as clean as they do in the textbook.
In this episode, Sophie, Aubrey, and Jaime walk through a series of high-stakes, real-world EMS scenarios — the kind that test your critical thinking, your communication, and your ability to stay calm when everything around you isn’t. From shocky trauma with unclear mechanisms, to airway decisions when team members disagree, to ethical chaos with intoxication and capacity, each scenario forces the question: What would you do?
We break down how different providers think, what options are truly safe, and how judgment evolves through experience, mistakes, and the uncomfortable calls that stick with you.

As always, if you have a story to tell—funny, wild, heartbreaking, or unforgettable—you can share it through our website. We’d love to feature it on a future episode.
Radio Reports – Listener Tales: ⁠⁠https://lifeandsirens.com/listenertales/⁠

11/17/2025

The simulations are top notch at EMS World The Clinical Challenge is facilitated by Limmer Education and they pull out all the stops! Just check out this manikin!

Thank you Limmer for letting us learn and explore with you!

The EMS scenario took place on a
“soccer field”— they even had fake grass and a backdrop to really simulate the environment.

We will absolutely be participating in
the competition next year!

11/03/2025

NEW EPISODE!! 🚑👯‍♀️

Episode 50: Two Medics Walk Into a Call…

In this episode, Aubrey and Jaime sit down to talk about what it’s really like working as a double medic crew — how their partnership evolved, what changed when they both started carrying the medic patch, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. From honest conversations to on-scene communication, they share advice for new and seasoned paramedics alike about building trust, staying adaptable, and keeping your partnership strong when the calls get tough.
Because in EMS, how well you work together can make all the difference.

10/31/2025

Episode 49– HALLOWEEN SPECIAL:

Every medic has that one call.
The one you can’t quite explain — the one that follows you home long after the shift ends.

In this Halloween special of Life and Sirens, we read two real life“radio reports” submitted by EMS providers who’ve seen things they still can’t shake.

From a patient’s haunting warning to the chilling echoes of Hollow Creek Road, these are the stories whispered between night shifts and static-filled radios — where medicine meets the unexplainable.

👻 Turn the lights down, grab your headset, and settle in for our spookiest episode yet.

🎙️ Life and Sirens presents: Their Halloween Special.

10/27/2025

NEW EPISODE: 10/27/25

Recorded Onsite at EMS World 2025

In this special episode of Life and Sirens: Behind and On the Scene, we sit down on the conference-center floor… no like literally the floor… at EMS World 2025 for a fireside-style chat with Shay Montgomery, CCRN, CFRN, NR-P (better known online as )and her brother Tyler Morris, a fellow EMS professional and educator.

Together, this brother-sister EMS duo brings a unique blend of experience across ground EMS, flight medicine, and collegiate-level education. They share honest stories from their journeys, how they found their respective callings, and what it’s really like growing in the profession side-by-side—sometimes literally.

From the challenges of finding balance between teaching and clinical practice to the humor that keeps providers sane in long shifts and hotel-conference chaos, this episode captures the heart of what makes EMS a family—both by blood and by bond.

It’s candid. It’s real. It’s what happens when providers stop rushing between sessions and actually sit down to talk about life and EMS.

As always, if you have a story to tell-funny, wild, heartbreaking, or unforgettable-you can share it through our website. We’d love to feature it on a future episode.
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10/24/2025

Life & Sirens had the pleasure of sitting down with EMS World Podcast! This was a fun one for sure! So stay tuned!

10/20/2025

NEW EPISODE TODAY! 🚑🫁🎤

“Airway — The First Frontier” PART 2

They taught us how to line up the landmarks and pass a tube, but they didn’t tell us how humbling a bad view can feel at 3 a.m., or how much the little things like positioning, BVM technique, and teamwork really matter.

In this Fireside Chat, we’re getting real about the airway: the basics that make or break you, the tools we love (and the ones that save you when nothing else works), the chaos vs calm of team dynamics, and the critical care lessons that remind us the tube is only the beginning. It’s honest, unfiltered airway talk, with a side of nerdy stats and a round of trivia to close it out.

🎧 Go check out the full show notes at https://lifeandsirens.com

💬 Got an airway story (the humbling, the messy, the unforgettable)? Share it with us:
👉 Listener Tales https: //lifeandsirens.com/listenertales/lifeandsirenspodcast

Life and Sirens: On and Behind the Scenes · Episode

10/20/2025

Episode 46: “Airway — The First Frontier” PART 2

They taught us how to line up the landmarks and pass a tube, but they didn’t tell us how humbling a bad view can feel at 3 a.m., or how much the little things like positioning, BVM technique, and teamwork really matter.

In this Fireside Chat, we’re getting real about the airway: the basics that make or break you, the tools we love (and the ones that save you when nothing else works), the chaos vs calm of team dynamics, and the critical care lessons that remind us the tube is only the beginning. It’s honest, unfiltered airway talk, with a side of nerdy stats and a round of trivia to close it out.

🎧 Go check out the full show notes at https://lifeandsirens.com

💬 Got an airway story (the humbling, the messy, the unforgettable)? Share it with us:
👉 Listener Tales https: //lifeandsirens.com/listenertales/

10/19/2025

EMS education, Flight Medicine, Mental health for firstresponders, and all the life that happens in the middle!

10/13/2025

NEW EPISODE!! 🚑🚁

Life and Sirens: On and Behind the Scenes · Episode

10/13/2025

MONDAY— OCTOBER 13, 2025
Episode 45: “Airway — The First Frontier” PART 1

They taught us how to line up the landmarks and pass a tube, but they didn’t tell us how humbling a bad view can feel at 3 a.m., or how much the little things like positioning, BVM technique, and teamwork really matter.

In this Fireside Chat, we’re getting real about the airway: the basics that make or break you, the tools we love (and the ones that save you when nothing else works), the chaos vs calm of team dynamics, and the critical care lessons that remind us the tube is only the beginning. It’s honest, unfiltered airway talk, with a side of nerdy stats and a round of trivia to close it out.

🎧 Go check out the full show notes at https://lifeandsirens.com

💬 Got an airway story (the humbling, the messy, the unforgettable)? Share it with us:
👉 Listener Tales: https://lifeandsirens.com/listenertales/

10/12/2025

🚨 📻 RADIO REPORTS ARE LIVE! 🚨
Got a wild, hilarious, or unforgettable EMS story? 👀
We want to hear it 👇

🧤 Send in your EMS Listener Tales
🎙️ Get featured on the Life & Sirens Podcast

👉 Submit your story at www.lifeandsirens.com

Got a Story Worth Telling? We want to hear your wild, funny, heartbreaking, or downright unbelievable tales from the field! Submit your story below and you might hear it featured on an upcoming episode of Life and Sirens. Let’s share the laughs, lessons, and the real side of EMS — one tale at a ...