2025 EMS Week Events

Memorial Ceremony

  • When: Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 11:00 AM
  • Where: Maine EMS Memorial Site, State House Complex, Capital Street, Augusta
  • What: In partnership with Friends of EMS for Maine, the memorial ceremony will include at least one new Line of Duty Death observance and recognition of past observed Line of Duty Deaths, as well as saluting all of us who make EMS available every day. Remarks by officers of the Legislature and by some of Maine’s soon-to-be EMS professionals will be featured. Please join us to help spread the EMS spirit!

Awards Ceremony

  • When: Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 1:00 PM
  • Where: Hall of Flags, State House, Capital Street, Augusta
  • What: The Maine EMS Awards Committee will select recipients for the 2025 Maine EMS Awards. The awards conferred to those recipients recognize the outstanding contributions and achievements of EMS clinicians, partners, and organizations throughout Maine.

It’s a day to give gratitude to EMS professionals for their unwavering commitment to serve their communities and is an homage to this year’s 51st anniversary theme of EMS Week: We Care. For Everyone.

Two EMS professionals with a stretcher in front of an ambulance with the EMS Week dates of May 18 through May 24, 2025 and the EMS Week theme of We Care For Everyone.