A first responder is seven times more likely to come in contact with an individual with autism than the average person ...
Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Officials say a lifeguard who ran over a sunbather while driving a Beach Patrol pickup truck along Daytona Beach did not take a ...
The Portland Press HeraldOLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine — The fire department hopes to raise $20,000 for a piece of training equipment that bleeds, cries and takes an injection in ...
WBALTVBALTIMORE — The Baltimore City Fire Academy EMS training program has been suspended pending the outcome of a cheating investigation. The WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team's David ...
The curse of a busy EMS career is that compassion is the skill that erodes while all the rest become stronger with constant practice. ...
By Robert Raheb FDNY EMS Lt. (ret), Emergency Response Specialist — FAAC, Inc.Driving is taught from an analytical viewpoint; rarely do we cross over to the emotional side of ...
Paul Takahashi Las Vegas Sun LAS VEGAS — In the middle of a sterilized room in a nondescript Henderson office park, 13 students dressed in blue scrubs huddle around a body ...
Centering the patient that way accomplishes the move by moving the patient along the long axis of the spine, rather than against it, and the end result is less potential ...
The Associated PressNEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale University has stepped up safety training for supervisors after a student was killed last week inside a chemistry lab when her ...
Not one of the 30 medics I informally polled had intubated more than three people before being cleared to practice. ...
By Susan Misur New Haven RegisterOLD SAYBROOK, Conn. — Police Chief Michael Spera would be facing a nearly $30,000 bill for overtime costs in the next few weeks but for ...
By Scott Johnson Oakland Tribune via Contra Costa TimesOAKLAND, Calif. — Not long ago, Ernesto Diaz was locked up at the Camp Sweeney juvenile detention facility on felony ...
By Claire Lynch The Union Leader PITTSBURG, N.H. — A team of eight paramedics from Air Force Special Operations converged on Pittsburg earlier this month as part of a special ...
By Jessica Cuffman The Marion StarMARION, Ohio — When he saw the heroin needle still in the arm of an overdose victim, Lt. Wade Ralph knew he and his fellow firefighters ...
By Emma Downs Fort Wayne Journal GazetteFORT WAYNE, Ind. — Blindfolding a man and handing him a fist full of darts seems out of place at a safety seminar.But Gary Klein, an ...
By Jeff B. Flinn San Antonio Express-News WINDCREST, Texas — "Practice makes perfect," or so they say. In the city of Windcrest, practice certainly helps, ...
By Rob Rogers Marin Independent JournalNOVATO, Calif. — Novato school officials have agreed to install automated external defibrillators at the district's high schools, ...
The Canadian PressFREDERICTON, Canada — The organization that issues licences to paramedics across New Brunswick has been given the green light to recognize advanced-care ...
By Kimbery Pina The Houston ChronicleHARRIS COUNTY, Texas — After more than 30 years of serving the Katy area as a first responder to emergencies, West Harris County EMS has ...
By Sarah Rohrs Vallejo Times Herald SOLANO COUNTY, Calif. — In a massive explosion Thursday on Interstate 80 near Cordelia, Touro University student Will Princewill suffered ...
