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Year Honored
2014
Honoree
Teresa Davis
Title
EMT-I
Agency
Coffee Regional Medical Center EMS
Agency City
Douglas
Agency State
GA
Last Call
6/6/13
Biography
Teresa Davis graduated from high school in 1987 and received her EMT training at the Ben Hill Irwin Technical College. She started her career of community service as a dispatcher for Ben Hill County 911 and the Fitzgerald Police Department. After becoming an EMT, she worked for Regional EMS in Atkinson County and in 2002 she started her career with Coffee Regional EMS.<br /> A member of the Mount Zion Baptist Church, she was a woman of deep and abiding faith. She gave inspiration to many through her high ideals, morals, and deep concern for her fellow citizens, and others admired the devotion, patience, and understanding she demonstrated to her family and friends. Teresa was a person of magnanimous strengths with an unimpeachable reputation for integrity, intelligence, fairness, kindness, and by the example she made of her life.<br /> <br /> Teresa died of injuries sustained when the ambulance she was driving was involved in a motor vehicle accident. She and her partner Randall Whiddon were transporting a critically ill patient in the early morning hours of June 6, 2013. Thunderstorms had moved through the area earlier, and the crew was traveling east on Georgia State Highway 32 with lights and siren activated. As a car traveling in the opposite direction yielded to give the ambulance right-of-way, a tractor-trailer following the car locked its brakes and jackknifed into the path of the ambulance. The ambulance struck the left side of the oncoming semi killing all on board.<br /> <br /> Honored 2014