Kentucky 'Hurricane Relief' t-shirts now available

By KEITH SMITH
Kentucky Board of EMS

FRANKFORT — Kentucky Board of EMS Advisor/Inspector Keith Smith, on his own, has designed a t-shirt to commemorate the work Kentucky EMS agencies performed last year during the relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.

While deployed to Beaumont, Texas, a group of us thought it would be neat to come up with a t-shirt marking the work of all of the people who assisted in the hurricane relief efforts," Smith recalled.  "Well, I got home and did some work and came up with a design."

"After much soul searching and financial planning, I designed and had printed several t-shirts to use as a prototype for folks to see if they would like to purchase.  One thing I want to make clear here is that I am not trying to make a profit.  I am only interested in making sure I don't lose money."

"I just think that after all of the outstanding work everyone did, they should have something to remember the year by."

The KBEMS symbol is located on the front left breast and the map is centered on the back.

"Even though I used the KBEMS symbol, with their permission, no state funds have been used to do this.  I used their symbol because we worked under an EMAC agreement with KBEMS being the parent organization."

To order a shirt, download and print this order form (PDF document).

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