France's pompiers, for example, are also the ambulance and first aid service.

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Other aid recipients include Staten Island's Metropolitan Fire Association, which offers programs to train teens in firefighting and first aid, and Jewish Family Service of Atlantic and Cape May Counties in New Jersey.

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First responders are despatched by the ambulance service to aid people taken ill in rural areas.

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All three were given first aid by the rescue team before paramedics from the ambulance service took them to hospital.

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He outlined how it also manages cliff rescues, inshore rescues, a recompression chamber, a youth service, voluntary ambulance service for island wide events, a library service for residential homes, health care equipment shop and first aid training for businesses and schools.

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In the long term, the fire service said it could also sell services such as health and safety advice and first aid training.

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