The use of the term "first responder" in the current sense first emerged in the
United States in the 1970s. Perhaps the earliest uses in print occurred in two articles in
The Boston Globe in August 1973, about proposed
ambulance regulations in
Massachusetts. There were some earlier uses of "first response", though not "first responder", in this sense. They included an article in the
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel in March 1972, and another about the formation of a "First Response Group" composed of volunteers in
The Burlington Free Press in April 1973. A few months after its use in the
Globe, the term "first-responders" appeared in a
Boston Herald article about a master plan for emergency care from the Health Planning Council of Greater Boston. One of the recommendations in the plan, reported the
Herald, was that "All ambulance personnel and first-responders (who are general police and firemen) should be adequately trained in emergency care such as cardopulmonary [
sic] resuscitation." "First-responder" was also used in a July 1974 classified advertisement for a deputy chief of EMT training—"to assist in developing and implementing statewide training programs for EMT's and first-responders"—from the
Massachusetts Department of Public Health. ==Specific jurisdictions==