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The Wedsworth-Townsend Paramedic Act was signed into effect by Governor Ronald Reagan in 1970 authorizing specially trained emergency medical personnel to provide advanced life support interventions in the field with online medical direction from a base hospital physician. This was the beginning of modern-day emergency medical services in the state of California.

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