Whereas first responders are police officers, peace officers, deputy sheriffs, correctional officers, local, State, Federal, and Tribal law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency dispatchers, public safety telecommunicators, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and nurses, who, in the course of their professional duties, respond to fire, medical, hazardous material, or other similar emergencies; Whereas International Firefighters Day , National Peace Officers Memorial Day , National Nurses Week , National Police Week , National EMS Week , and National Correctional Officers Week are annually celebrated in May; Whereas, according to the Department of Commerce, in the United States there are approximately 4,600,000 first responders; Whereas, during times of medical crisis, first responders are critical in providing emergency medical services to disadvantaged communities such as older adults, people with disabilities, limited access to transportation, and those with minimal English-language proficiency; Whereas first responders have worked on the frontlines of national emergencies and crises for centuries including the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the opioid epidemic, and the COVID–19 pandemic; Whereas, according to the Department of Transportation, emergency medical service personnel respond to around 37,000,000 9–1–1 calls annually; Whereas, according to the Indian Health Service, about 60,000 emergency medical service trips are made every year on reservations, particularly in rural and extremely remote locations, for Tribal members; Whereas first responders in rural communities often require additional specialized training given emergency response is sometimes a secondary occupation