Fatal Incidents
The fatal incidents topic deals with a range of articles, news and exclusives surrounding the unfortunate side of a responders’ job.
The bill would also bar medics from administering certain drugs to assist law enforcement
MedStar’s Matt Zavadsky and NASEMSO’s Dia Gainor discuss traffic incident management and EMS’s role in multi-agency response after 133 vehicle pileup
Designating specific roles and other tips to make the hardest part of the job a bit easier
Cumberland Goodwill EMS paramedic Taylor Shearer shared a personal lesson from a fatal incident
An EMT and patient are killed after their ambulance collided head-on with a tractor-trailer
It took police, firefighters and EMS working together to get this patient to the ambulance
Debris found during the search for the vessel “is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” said Rear Adm. John Mauger
A supercell struck Matador killing at least 4 people and causing widespread destruction
Springfield EMT Peggy Finley faces murder charges related to “compressional and positional asphyxia” of a patient
Parma Heights paramedics were leaving the scene and were unaware the woman had approached the ambulance in the dark
Document in the ongoing special victims unit investigation alleges the teen with autism was given 10 milligrams of Versed to “shut him up”
First responders from Divernon and other locations moved injured people out of the storm that persisted for hours
Two workers were assessing the roof of the abandoned Blairsville school when it collapsed and they fell three stores
First responders had to work in rugged terrain in Larimer County to reach the converted school bus
“Something said you need to check again,” Kyle Dowling said when he saw tire tracks leading over an embankment
Bell Ambulance EMT, FTO John Swanson was initially revived after being rescued from Lake Michigan
“He would give his life for anyone": Neighbors in the Brooklyn community are shocked over the death of Firefighter Mark Batista
Knowing how xylazine presents clinically, as well as how it impacts overdose management is important for any provider responding to illicit drug overdoses
The Coffee County EMS crew was transporting a patient when they collided with a truck
EMS Captain Edgar Baez and Lieutenant Alison Russo used to respond to calls together in the Bronx decades ago
31 residents died in the Christmas 2022 storm that dumped over 50-inches of snow with hurricane-force winds
Kevin McCorvey admitted to smoking marijuana, taking Adderall and drinking beer before driving the ambulance
4 patients in the Aurora crash were flown to hospitals
First responders in Sacramento arrived to find a total of 11 patients with serious injuries
Wichita FD divers were able to extricate the man, who was submerged for over an hour, but resuscitation attempts were unsuccessful
Multiple departments responded to a crash in Barron County that killed two people and critically injured three
Bags of cement went flying and one crashed through the windshield of a car, killing a passenger
AMR was at “level zero” while firefighters were treating the victim for nearly 30 minutes
A 3-year-old has burns over 25% of his body after blast injured another child and killed three people
An unfinished two-story house in Conroe collapsed on workers, trapping them under piles of lumber
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office said the father and teens were going through a relative’s possessions when they found the grenade and the father pulled the pin
Children of the patient killed in the April crash say the EMT failed to maintain control of the ambulance
A 74-year-old patient died after head-on collision involving a Regional Paramedical Services ambulance
