Kevin Grange (Grizzly Bear Attacks, Flight Medicine and National Parks) - Episode 1242
Behind The Shield
James Geering
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Grange is an award-winning freelance writer with an emphasis on the medical field, adventure and travel. He is a firefighter/paramedic with Jackson Hole Fire/EMS and Grand Teton National Park in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. We discuss his journey into Emergency Medicine, grizzly bear attacks, wilderness medicine, homelessness, addiction, mental health, flight medicine and so much more.
His latest book, Grizzly Confidential: An Astounding Journey Into the Secret Life of North America’s Most Fearsome Predator is available for pre-order now, to be published in September 2024.
Grange’s third book, Wild Rescues: A Paramedic’s Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton was published by Chicago Review Press in March 2021, also winning the High Plains Book Award in the Medicine & Science category.
In June 2015, Berkley Books, a division of Penguin Random House, published Kevin’s memoir Lights and Sirens: The Education of a Paramedic. Lights and Sirens is a true account of going through UCLA’s famed Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program—and practicing emergency medicine on the streets of Los Angeles.
In 2011, The University of Nebraska Press published Grange’s travel memoir, his first book, Beneath Blossom Rain, about his 24-day trek through the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. The memoir has received wide press in the United States; is available on the Kindle and Nook, as an audiobook from Audible.com and has been translated and published in China, India and Latvia.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Behind and Shield podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing. And this week, it is my absolute honor to welcome on the show, |
| 0:07.0 | veteran firefighter paramedic, flight medic, and author of multiple books, Kevin Grange. |
| 0:14.5 | Now, in this conversation, we discuss a host of topics from his journey into the world of EMS, his training at the Daniel Freeman |
| 0:23.6 | Paramedic School, writing his first book, Lights and Sirens, transitioning to becoming a first |
| 0:30.5 | responder in the national parks, grizzly bear attacks, bison goarings, some notable rescues, mental health, and so much more. |
| 0:42.7 | Now, before we get to this incredible conversation, as I say every week, please just take a moment. |
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| 1:21.7 | So with that being said, I introduce to you Kevin Grange. |
| 1:27.4 | Enjoy. Well, Kevin, I want to start by saying thank you so much for taking the time and come on the Behind the Shield podcast today. |
| 1:54.3 | Thanks, James. I'm thrilled to be here and I'm looking forward to a great discussion. |
| 1:59.6 | Likewise. So very first question, where on planet Earth be finding you this afternoon? |
| 2:04.8 | Sure. |
| 2:05.6 | I'm currently living in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with my wife, Megan, who is also a firefighter |
| 2:11.0 | paramedic. |
| 2:12.4 | And yeah, it's kind of a mild winter snow-wise, so we're already having a couple wildland fires |
| 2:20.4 | going off and just getting ready for the busy summer season out here. |
| 2:25.8 | A lot of people that I know that are in ski areas are reporting the same thing. Is it unusual |
| 2:30.7 | to have this little snow at the moment? Yeah, definitely. |
| 2:34.8 | I think, you know, typically we think of wildfire season kicking in around August, |
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