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Is it the providers’ responsibility to stay until the patient can be located? If not, how long is long enough?
Firefighters and paramedics often take images on calls. How long should such images be retained, and why?
Compassion elevates emergency medical care to a ministry of kindness
Independent autopsy of Jameek Lowery counters the state’s cause of death due to cardiac arrest while under the influence of bath salts
Two Newport News firefighters were terminated after an investigation found they ignored protocols
Two Springfield Township medics have been fired; the fire chief and assistant chief remain on leave
It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion, but it happened during a training with the Orange County sheriff’s bomb squad
Jamey Noel, co-founder of New Chapel Fire/EMS and former Clark County sheriff, is facing 25 felony charges for theft, public corruption, tax evasion and ghost employment
The ambulance was stolen shortly after the medic crew arrived at a call regarding a potential psychiatric patient
Columns in the Surfside collapse that killed 98 people did not meet 1980s standards
The two got into an argument over how to handle an unconscious patient
The Rialto firefighters maintained they were strictly adhering to COVID protocols in the 2021 incident
Paramedic Shaney Warehime was hospitalized on Feb. 11, after she had stopped breathing
Colorado Springs Paramedic Nicholas Fisher tackled Dizmang and placed him in a headlock
Milwaukee aldermen are requesting ambulance companies make it a policy to get out of the rig and look for patients
The Phoenix Fire Department is investigating the death of a patient reportedly dropped by firefighters.
Investigators found a dead goose in part of the Air Evac Lifeteam helicopter flight control system
Contractor in Boise hangar collapse that killed three had multiple safety violations in the last 10 years
Curtis Ambulance official defends Milwaukee medics for not getting out of ambulance to look for patient
Officials said the mutual aid system has “repeatedly” pulled Winthrop ambulances into other communities
Coroner’s staff arrived after the Springfield Township paramedics left the scene and found the woman trying to breathe
Air Evac Lifeteam operations control center lost contact with the crew late Saturday night
Lake County firefighters on two units nearest to the site of the Jan. 4 emergency failed to promptly alert dispatchers they were available to respond, investigation revealed
The NTSB, FAA are assisting local authorities in investigating the cause of the hot air balloon crash in Elroy
EMS personnel reportedly called Rochester police to have the man removed after he assaulted a crewmember
Officials in Spartanburg note no foul play or CO poisoning
The Air Methods helicopter was transporting an infant girl when it crashed in Upper Darby in Jan. 2022
Former Sedgwick County 911 dispatchers identifed Director Elora Forshee’s leadership as “tyrannical,” “discriminatory”
The driver, Michael Avery, had purchased containers and gasoline before crashing outside the Kodiak Center in Rochester