Office Manager

Teresa Butler

Teresa has been with Woodland Park Ambulance Service/Ute Pass Regional Ambulance District (WPAS/UPRAD) since Nov. 1994 and has been witness to the metamorphosis WPAS/UPRAD has experienced over the last 9 years. She enjoys being a part of this family that serves this community and its residents.

She was raised in southern California, traveled the United States, and now calls Woodland Park home. She is raising her 2 boys here and loves the outdoor opportunities and small town feel of this community.

Crews

Jesse is a native of the great state of Oregon. He moved here from Northern California in 1997 where he worked for a small fire department as a seasonal firefighter. He became a volunteer firefighter with Northeast Teller County Fire Protection District in Woodland Park just after moving here. He progressed to a volunteer Lieutenant and later worked as a part-time paid firefighter for them. He started working for Woodland Park Ambulance Service as an EMT-B in 2000. In 2001 he took a position with American Medical Response in Colorado Springs as an EMT-B. After getting several years of experience as an EMT-B in a busy urban system he attended Paramedic school at Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Spring. He graduated in the spring of 2005 with an award for clinical excellence and was then promoted to Paramedic at AMR. Jesse maintained his membership with WPAS and was hired as a full time Paramedic in August of 2006.

Given Jesse’s dedication to education and work he has not had much of a social life over the past couple years. When he does find free time he enjoys mountain biking and snow boarding among other outdoor activities; however, both of those activities have proven to inflate his yearly contributions to the insurance companies and healthcare providers in the Colorado Springs area. Jesse’s other passion aside from medicine is the culinary arts. His whole roasted pig and mustard BBQ sauce are two things everyone should try at least once.

Chris Erickson

Chris was born in Leavenworth, KS (not at the prison) and was raised in Kansas City, Mo. He attended the University of Missouri-Columbia and graduated with a B.S. degree in Special Education and from University of Colorado — Colorado Springs with a MA degree in Special Education. He taught Special Education in Kansas City and Colorado Springs for 15 years.

Chris started his EMS career in 1993 and started with American Medical Response (AMR) of Colorado Springs in 1994, became a paramedic in 1997 and currently works for Woodland Park Ambulance Service/UPRAD full-time; works part-time with AMR and Southwest Teller County EMS-Cripple Creek. He is trained as a tactical paramedic for the Teller County Sheriffs office, is an ACLS, PALS, and BTLS instructor and also coaches Boys/Girls high school track.

Jim Hollman

Jim was born and raised in Colorado Springs. He spent 5 years in the United States Marine Corps. In the Marine Corps, he specialized in signals intelligence on a 6 man recon team. He served in Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

After getting out of the Corps, Jim was hired as an EMT at A-1 Ambulance in Colorado Springs. He became a Paramedic in 1995 and spent one year as a flight paramedic on an air ambulance doing national and international flights. He was hired at WPAS/UPRAD in 2002. In his off time, he enjoys the classic Colorado lifestyle.

Shelby has managed casinos in Cripple Creek, Colorado for 10 years. She became a volunteer at 4-Mile EMS and received her EMS training there. She also teaches CPR and is an assistant instructor at Pikes Peak Community College. Her hope is to further her career and education in EMS. She has worked full-time with UPRAD since 2006.

Justin earned his EMT certification in 2004 at Pikes Peak Community College. He began his EMS career in June of 2005 as a part-time employee and volunteer. Justin started with WPAS as a part-time EMT and volunteer, where he worked until June of 2006 when he was hired full-time by UPREMS. He is also a CPR instructor for UPRAD and Residents of the Ute Pass Regional Ambulance district. He also spends time at the local high schools teaching the kids CPR and working with the students of the Athletic training courses.

Justin is a Colorado native and enjoys hunting, fly-fishing, backpacking, and climbing fourteeners.

Charles W. (Wade) Bredemeier
Supervisor

Wade has been an EMT since 1994.  In 2000, he started working full-time with WPAS.  He is a member of the Tactical EMS Team for Teller County, earned his EMT training from Pikes Peak Community College, and paramedic from CU/Beth-el College of Nursing in 2001.  He has been a Woodland Park resident since 1987 and graduated from Woodland Park High School in 1992.  Wade is a part-time instructor with Pikes Peak Community College and a Basic Trauma Life Support (BTLS) instructor.  His wife  works as an OR tech at Memorial Hospital.

Wade loves to hunt, fish, hike, snowmobile, ski, and snow shoe.  He has aspirations of becoming a SCUBA diver.

Daniel J. Crampton

Dan started his EMS career as a volunteer fire fighter with Northeast Teller County Fire Protection District in 1993.  He joined WPAS/UPRAD in 1994 and started working full-time with them in 1995.  He has been a Paramedic since 1997.  He is the Health and Safety Officer for UPRAD.  He also has a Bachelor’s in Christian Counseling from Nazarene Bible College and a Master of Arts in Counseling from Colorado Christian University.  Dan lives in Woodland Park with his wife and daughter.

Chad Duthie

Chad was born and raised as a military brat, but has called Colorado Springs home since 1992.  Chad originally went to school for architecture, but soon found his calling in EMS.  He has been in EMS since 2001.  He started his career at American Medical Response and part-time at Woodland Park Ambulance.  He is now a full-time member at UPRAD.  Chad's wife Meagan is also a Paramedic and currently is the lead Paramedic instructor at Pikes Peak Community College.

Off duty activities include spending time with his family, hunting, and anything else that the great Colorado outdoors has to offer.

Nicole Hollman

Nicole grew up in the California Bay Area and moved to Colorado in 1997and received her EMT training in the Steamboat Springs area.  She moved to Colorado Springs in 1998 to finish her B.S. in Health Sciences Emergency Services and began working at WPAS/UPRAD that same year.  She received her paramedic training at UCCS.  When she is not on duty, she enjoys spending time in Colorado's great outdoors.

Dave Hansher
Supervisor

Dave entered EMS in 1986 as an EMT-B/IV. He worked for a variety of full-time, part-time, and volunteer agencies, both Fire and EMS, until completing paramedic school in 1999. One of these agencies was AMR in Colorado Springs. In 2000, he became a part of the WPAS/UPRAD team, where he currently serves as a paramedic and Field Supervisor. At Pikes Peak Community College, he is an instructor for the paramedic program.

Illa is red neck born and raised.  She’s been an EMT since 1999 and lives in Colorado Springs with her husband, son, and two dogs.  She has a Bachelors in Health Science and an Associates in Fire Science.  She became a paramedic in 2007. She enjoys traveling, hunting, fishing, rock climbing and hiking Colorado’s 14ers. She filled all her tags in 2008 and then some.

Erin Ewers

Erin is a Colorado native. He started in EMS in September 1992 and has been a full-time paramedic with WPAS/UPRAD since 2000.  He has a diversified background, which includes aircraft avionics and guidance systems, aircraft maintenance and inspection.

His hobbies include the outdoors, science and math, fencing, guitar, sign language, paintball, archery, hunting, martial arts, studying the Bible, and culinary arts.

Daniel Robb

Daniel is happy to be here.  His wife is happy he is finally out of the house.  He has been an EMT since 2005.  Before that he worked in the Springs as a printer supervisor for 20 years.  He is a Colorado Springs native, the oldest of four boys, and happily married with two sons Zach 11 and Casey 6.  On his off time he enjoys camping, fishing and spending time with his family.

JoDee has been around the Teller/Park County EMS system since 1986.  First as a firefighter, then a First Responder. She later became an EMT and eventually earned her paramedic. She is the director the Four Mile EMS agency.

Her passions include teaching EMS with Pikes Peak Community College and gardening.

Chad Bauer

Chad started his Fire career 9 yrs ago with the St. Robert Fire Dept.  which lead him into his EMS career the following year.  He has been involved in Emergency Services in El Paso and Teller counties since moving to Colorado in 2000. He became involved with WPAS/UPRAD in 2002 and became a board member in 2005.  Currently he is a Paramedic Field Training Officer and Field Supervisor for AMR El Paso County.

Part-Timers

Gail has been a long time resident of Woodland Park and worked with the Boy Scouts of America for a number of years. He worked for Hewlett-Packard as an electronics technician for many years and became a member of their Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) in 1972. He became an EMT through HP in the 1980’s and joined the Woodland Park Ambulance Service (WPAS) in the late 1980’s as a part-time employee and has been a member ever since. He was elected to the WPAS Board of Directors in 2005 and has been serving as the secretary of the board since then. He is currently a part-time employee with the Ute Pass Regional Ambulance District (UPRAD).

Steve Dubay

Steve Dubay is a paramedic and firefighter who also serves on the WPAS Board of Directors.  A part-time paramedic at UPRAD, Steve is employed full-time by the Colorado Springs Fire Department.  He currently serves as the President of the WPAS Board of Directors.  Steve has worked in EMS and as a firefighter since 1985.  He has been a nationally registered paramedic since 1992 and has an MPA from the University of Colorado.  Steve and his wife have been married for eleven years and have one daughter.  They like to travel, camp, hike, and read.

Meagan was born and raised in Soldotna, AK.  She began her public service career as a volunteer fire-fighter for Central Emergency Services in Soldotna, AK in 1999.  She then went on to become a paramedic through Pennsylvania College of Technology graduating in 2002.  Meagan received her paramedic “experience” through AMR, Colorado Springs and continues to work for them part-time. 

Meagan resides in Colorado Springs with her husband, son, and two spoiled, but much loved dogs.  She enjoys Colorado/Alaska style outdoor activities, and “girly” indoor winter activities (scrap-booking, stamping, crocheting, sewing, etc).

Nikki was born and raised in central Minnesota. She began her hobby in EMS as a NREMT-Basic in 2000, in Minnesota during her undergraduate education. She completed her NREMT-I/85 training in Idaho in January, 2004, shortly before finishing her Masters degree. Upon moving to Colorado later that year, she joined WPAS, now UPRAD as an EMT-BIV. While she enjoys helping the living, she also has a passion for the extinct. Nikki is a paleontologist and geologist. She currently is a full time post hole digger (PhD) student in Geology at Colorado School of Mines. She also works as an adjunct professor for PPCC, Regis University, and CSU-Pueblo. Nikki enjoys the outdoors and new adventures.

Jeff Idleman
Vice President, UPRAD

Jeff is a 1981 graduate of Ohio State University with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in education and Industrial Management.  He is also a graduate of Pikes Peak Community College with an Associate's in Fire Science and EMT.

He has had an extensive career in the Fire/Medical field.  It starts with 6 years with the Clinton TWP Fire Department in Columbus, Ohio, and continues with over 22 years with the Green Mountain Falls Fire Protection District.  He also works part-time with UPRAD.

Jim has been in EMS for over 20 years.  All of this time has been in Colorado. The past 6 years he has been in the fire service. He is currently at Station 10 with the Colorado Springs Fire Department. He works part-time for UPRAD and Cripple Creek EMS.  Jim is also the Colorado State representative for the National Registry of EMTs. He has a wonderful 4 month old daughter.  He and his wife were married on a small island of Ambergis off the coast of Berlize.

Jim enjoys the great Colorado outdoors and spends time snow shoeing with his wife and Alpine skiing.  He spends time with his family and friends at Lake Powell every year. Jim will tell you he has the best job in the world: PARAMEDIC.

Nick was born and raised by his parents Rick and Dianne and two older brothers Scott and Brett in the suburbs of Minneapolis/St. Paul. He then went to Iowa State University and graduated with a BS in Exercise Science in Dec. '02. After that he got his EMT-B certificate and moved out to Colorado. He's been living in Colorado for about three and a half years now with his girlfriend of six years, who is an elementary art teacher. He was hired by UPRAD this past summer, is currently a fulltime paramedic/firefighter with Fountain Fire Department. During his off time, he enjoys skiing, hiking, camping, being outside and reading.

Dan Olson

Dan Olson is a Colorado Springs native and went to school at Widefield High School.  From there Dan joined the Navy and worked as a Firefighter/Rescue Diver with many interesting story of things he did in the Navy.   Following that, Dan went to work for Ft. Carson Fire Department where he has worked for the last 25 years.  Dan currently works as lead firefighter at Station 34 and runs the station and wildland crew whenever the Station Caption is absent.  Dan has made many accomplishments, becoming a Rescue technician in Trench rescue, Confined Space rescue, High angle, and collapse rescue.  Dan has also gone far in the wildland program, completing his engine boss, crew boss, and his ICS- 4.  Dan lives in Woodland Park with his wife Lynette and four children, Nicole, Jared, Tyler, and Tanner.  Dan has worked part time for UPRAD for the last 2 years.

George Parkhurst
Director, UPRAD

George is a retired faculty and staff member of Rush Medical College and University in Chicago, IL, where he taught Medical Pharmacology and ran a drug analysis laboratory. He retired in 1994, moved to Woodland Park and built a home. Subsequently he has been involved with the NETCFD as a member of their Master Plan Review Committee in 1996-1997. He then became involved with various Woodland Park city committees. He is no longer a voting member of these committees but his involvement continues. George was elected to the Woodland Park City Council in April of 2004. His involvement with WPAS/UPRAD started after First Responder Certification in 2002 and, subsequently, became an EMT and in June 2006 a UPRAD Board member. He and his wife were married in 1966. They have two daughters and four grand-children.