Jeff Behling proved early last year that knowledge and know-how never take a day off. Jeff was at a junkyard looking for auto parts when an exhaust manifold fell onto another man. Jeff was off-duty but jumped into action. Based on the man’s color, Jeff knew the situation was serious. He determined the man had a potentially life-threatening arterial bleed, directed bystanders to call 911, held direct pressure on the wound and kept the man alert until responders arrived.
Jeff is a member of the AMR Emergency Response Team. He’s deployed four times during his four-year career with AMR, including most recently to South Carolina after Hurricane Florence. Jeff was a strike team leader during that activation and was on the ground for nearly two weeks. Jeff also recently became an EVOC instructor and assists with various aspects of his operation’s new employee orientation program.
Jeff was inspired to enter the EMS field by his grandfathers, Reed Don Conover and the late Bruce Andrew Behling, both of whom were volunteer EMTs in Utah in the early days of EMS, and his parents, Jason and Chaña Behling. To say that he’s done them all proud would be an understatement.