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Year Honored
2002
Honoree
Floyd L Miller
Agency
LaGrange County EMS
Agency City
LaGrange
Agency State
IN
Last Call
10/25/01
Cause of Death
On-duty Cardiac
Biography
No one knows better then an emergency medical worker how quickly a life can end. It's what you accomplish with your life while you are here that matters. Emergency Medical Service workers seem to have a special calling to help others. These workers go each day ready for any life and death occurrence to happen. In a minute's notice they are called to respond in a time of need. It doesn't matter what they were involved in when called they respond. When an EMS worker's life comes to an end, not only is the rescue worker greatly missed, but his valuable call to service work is missed as well.<br /> <br /> Floyd L. Miller, 41, died on October 25, 2001. He had answered a call to an accident and had transported the patient to the emergency room at the LaGrange Community Hospital in Shipshewana, Indiana. While filing the accident report with nurses, Mr. Miller collapsed to the emergency room floor. He was resuscitated, regained a pulse and was air lifted to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne Indiana. Floyd arrested again while there, and was pronounced dead of heart failure.<br /> <br /> Mr. Miller worked as a part-time emergency medical service worker for the LaGrange County Rescue Squad. He worked with the Medic 5 unit based in Shipshewana County. He had previously worked for the Shipshewana Fire Department for six years.<br /> <br /> Honored 2002