Focus areas

Volunteer and Rural First Response Departments

We donate MARCH supplies and training to volunteer and rural fire, EMS and rescue departments, where help often has farther to travel.

Apply Give
First responders treating a patient on the ground

Why rural response

  1. 14min

    Median EMS response time in rural areas, about double the 7-minute national median.

    Mell et al., JAMA Surgery, 2017

  2. <5min

    A person with a severe bleed can lose their entire circulating blood volume in under five minutes.

    Tjardes & Luecking, Military Medicine, 2018

  3. 54.5%

    Correct tourniquet use fell from 100% right after training to 54.5% within 3 to 9 months.

    Goralnick et al., cited in Jones et al., 2023

Volunteer departments cover large areas and train on their own time. AutoTQ provides real-time audio instructions, and every donation includes training and support after implementation.

What we provide

We equip organizations with critical MARCH supplies and training to reduce fatalities after traumatic injury.

  1. Massive Hemorrhage
  2. Airway
  3. Respiration
  4. Circulation
  5. Hypothermia
AutoTQ Bleeding Control kit: red case, controller, and ARM and LEG cuffs

AutoTQ Tourniquet is our Massive Hemorrhage Partner

AutoTQ is an automated tourniquet that provides real-time audio instructions to ensure that anyone can stop blood loss from arms and legs.

36 of 36 first-time users applied AutoTQ successfully in a 2025 usability study, in a mean of 15 seconds.Herbst & Willis, IEEE Pulse, 2025

Learn more

For qualifying organizations, the donated equipment is free of charge.

Apply Give