Do EMTs wear name badges?

How did they find out she was in the cave?

Locally, they have badges with last names only on their sleeves. Likely different based on jurisdiction.

Err, and if a pregnant woman could get into a cave, why would they not be able to? That doesn't make a lot of sense, unless it's a ship in a bottle metaphor.

Cave?
It's for a short story. Two homeless friends are sleeping in a cave. One friend goes into labor. The other runs to the local town and calls 911. A huge storm hits and the EMTs can only drive to a certain point before the roads are blocked. Do they walk the rest of the way? Run? How do they handle helping people in big storms? Do they bring medical supplies with them? What do they do to get to the girl to help her? And the girl is deaf and can't speak. But she looks on their uniforms for their names. She wants to remember their names so later she can send them a letter to thank them for helping her.

Thanks in advance…

I think you need to sort out some distance and space issues.

You can't make the terrain too weird, as she's not going to be able to have climbed anywhere unless she's unusually physically gifted. My neighbour 3 doors over is slightly over 5 months pregnant with twins right now. She can't bend at all, or turn to look at anything without turning around completely. A colleague is 2 weeks from delivery. She's also in no-bend/no-turn condition. So your pregnant woman wouldn't have been able to bend over to get into the cave to begin with. So it will have to be a decent size and height.

The distance that most women about to go into labour (and it generally doesn't come on that easily, she'll have had signals) can walk could be covered easily by EMT's, even if they need to carry some of their gear. Depending on their location, they will have access to alternative equipment such as ATV's to move their supplies in closer. But they likely wouldn't carry in too much gear for a delivery - if more was required, they could call it in.

You ask:



Friend runs to town--presumably punching #911 from the closest phone. Meanwhile, the unpredicted storm (road crews would be prepared for a predicted storm) dumps so much snow that the road is blocked?

Better think this through. Cell phone perhaps? Cave well off the road?

EMT's respond. They drive as far as they can, then hike with the stretcher and all portable equipment.

Naturally they are all bundled up and the name tags are probably not visible.

If the cave is hard to find they have picked up The Friend who will both help them find the cave and relay names.

Is this normal childbirth? A miscarriage? How many months? Physical condition of mother? Duration of labor? Severity of labor?

You need to give more information before you can get hard facts.