Leduc Fire Fighter's Association

Leduc’s Integrated Fire Service operates with a fully dual-trained team—every full-time operations member is both a firefighter and a licensed paramedic, certified at either the Primary Care Paramedic (P*P) or Advanced Care Paramedic (ACP) level.

So, what’s the difference?

Both P*Ps and ACPs deliver exceptional patient care every day. However, Advanced Care Paramedics complete an additional two years of intensive education, combining both classroom learning and hands-on clinical training.

This advanced training enables them to perform more complex medical procedures and administer specialized medications and interventions typically only available in a hospital setting.

The expanded scope of an ACP includes advanced airway management such as endotracheal intubation, applying Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) protocols during cardiac emergencies, and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) for critically ill infants and children. ACPs can also administer advanced drug therapies, including treatments that can begin managing heart attacks before the patient even reaches the hospital.

Currently, Leduc Fire maintains a workforce composed of approximately 85% Advanced Care Paramedics and 15% Primary Care Paramedics.

This staffing model ensures that every response—on every apparatus—is fast, highly skilled, and ready to deliver the highest level of care when seconds matter most.

Fire-Based EMS means the same highly trained Fire Fighters and Paramedics can respond, assess, treat, and transport in one coordinated system.

That saves critical time during emergencies, when every second counts.

Breaking that system apart for private providers could mean:

❗ Longer response times �
❗ Less coordination �
❗ Increased risk during emergencies

Public safety should not be an experiment.

Alberta must ensure communities have the emergency care they need and deserve.

Public safety should always come before profit.

Contact your MLA, Mayor, and Council and tell them to protect Fire-Based EMS.