The phrase "a first responder is" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when defining or explaining the role of a first responder in emergency situations.
Example: "A first responder is someone who is trained to provide immediate assistance in emergencies, such as paramedics or firefighters."
Alternatives: "an emergency responder is" or "a first aid provider is".
Newtown, for a first responder, is a motor vehicle accident on one of the area's 270 miles of roads.
The role of a first responder is commonplace in the armed forces today, but it was only during World War One that it was realised medical expertise was needed closer to the action.
The job of a first responder is to immediately, incisively grasp the scene to which they're dispatched, and not to act rashly if there's confusion or ambiguity.
He is scathing, in "Lo and Behold," about the "sick curiosity" of digital rubbernecking, presenting us with a family whose torment at the loss of a daughter, in a car crash, was at once multiplied and traduced when photographs of her decapitated body, taken by a first responder, were posted online and sent to her father as e-mail attachments.
During the YouTube shooting, a first responder was heard on the scanner saying 37 individuals would need "triaging," or medical attention.
For example, if a first responder were asked to determine the presence or absence of a bioterrorism agent in a suspicious powder using a detection system with a high false-positive rate, he may cause unnecessary evacuation of environments suspected to be contaminated, work stoppages, and anxiety.
Sometimes, the first responder is an octogenarian in a nightgown.
"They had much bigger fires to put out". Sometimes, the first responder is an octogenarian in a nightgown.
The term "first responder" is a little broader than you might think.
To Mrs. Hamdani, that her son would not be recognized at the memorial as an official first responder was the latest in a series of injustices that began with a knock on her door from two police officers in October 2001.
A common problem reported by first responders is memory impairment.
