Carmel Fire Department and MedVet Partner
to Help Pets Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // Courtesy of CFD
What a family goes through immediately after a house fire resonates deeply with me. My family lost our home to a fire in January of 1987. I understand that in the wake of the crisis, the last thing that a family needs to be burdened with is dealing with injury to their pets as a result of an emergency.
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t is with profound respect for the Carmel Fire Department (CFD) and for the folks at MedVet that I am happy to share the great news—CFD has partnered with MedVet Medical & Cancer Centers for Pets as its preferred choice of emergency pet care. MedVet can receive your pet at its 24/7-365-day-a-year pet emergency room here in Carmel, where they will receive exceptional emergency care.
EMERGENCY CARE FOR YOUR PETS CFD PIO Tim Griffin shared, “Every year the Carmel Fire Department fights fires in apartments and single-family homes that have family pets. One of our first jobs as firefighters is to search these homes for not only victims but also pets and get them outside to safety. Once outside, CFD has been fortunate enough to have pet oxygen masks and be able to provide CPR to those pets.”
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Up until partnering with MedVet, those were CFD’s limits of care to pets. They simply didn’t have the means or facility to takes pets in who needed more definitive care. Griffin added, “If your dog or cat is injured as a result of a fire, serious accident, special rescue or any other situation that requires the Carmel Fire Department, MedVet will be ready to help. After the ambulance arrives at
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