VIDEO: As visitors brought their fishing poles onto Jennette's Pier, upstairs nearly 100 first responders from agencies in North Carolina and Virginia were gathering for the fourth annual "EMS at the OBX" conference.
"It's an educational opportunity for EMS providers across the state of North Carolina, this year from Virginia as well, to be able to come and get about 14 hours of continuing education credit," said Walter Meads, EMS program coordinator at College of the Albemarle.
This year, for the first time, Dare County and COA were joined by representatives of East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine and ECU Health Medical Center. With it came the mobile healthcare simulation unit, that gives first responders hands on experience from real life events, that they may have never seen before.