Earl Tucker:  

Life Ahh, where to begin? After graduation I attended Ohio University where I studied Elementary Education and meet my first wife (Laura Callender). We were married shortly after we graduated from OU in '82 and lived briefly in Conneaut and Salem, and then eventually moved to Washington CH, Oh. I spent a few years doing long term substitute teaching and during that time I became interested in Emergency Medicine. I joined the Fayette Co. Life Squad in 1983 as an EMT and soon became a shift crewleader and emergency dispatcher. In 1984 I began working professionally for a local private ambulance service (Morrow Ambulance). By 1987 my marriage was crumbling and I had given up on ever finding a teaching job so I began to persue EMS as a career choice. My first wife and I divorced in 1989 and I had already begun working full time as an EMT. That year I delivered my first baby in the field and made the decision that EMS was going to be the focus of my life from that point onward. During that summer I meet and married my second wife (Kimberly James) in Chillicothe, Ohio. In 1990 I moved back to Ashtabula and we had our first child (Colin). In 1992 our second child was born, (Kendre). At that time I had been working for NorthShore Ambulance which was located in Geneva. I also attended Brown Memorial Hospital's Paramedic Training Program. In 1994 my company merged with another local ambulance service to form Community Care Amb...Expand for more