Fire-EMS
The Fire-EMS topic deals with the range of issues facing EMTs and paramedics in the fire service. Use this page to find news and tips on survivability, ambulance safety, emergency medical response and medical operations.
Lillian Bonsignore draws on her 30-plus-year EMS career to spotlight the financial realities facing first responders
EMS providers are more susceptible to sleep disorders and their inherent dangers and health implications
A month after his son initiated CPR for his first SCA, Wayne Kewitsch suffered a second medical emergency while driving
The officer is “100 percent permanently disabled” after responding to the Sandy Hook school massacre and faces possible termination
A scientist is developing an alcohol substitute — one that produces many of the neurological effects of alcohol, without the chemical’s physical harm
Currently, Iowa does not consider emergency medical services an essential service; rural ambulance are funded with donations
The goal is to improve communication during a disaster and how well the area can handle responding to multiple incidents at once
The group is hoping to raise about $15,000 towards research for prostate and testicular cancer
Officials have fined REACH Air Medical Services nearly $33,000 for refusing orders on where to transport trauma patients
The driver crashed into the ambulance as it was coming out of a parking lot with lights and sirens blaring, and a patient on board
He has an enormous tumor on his neck that stretches across his chest, inhibits his movement and threatens his life; the drug has been reducing the size of the tumor
His daughter claimed she received it in a package delivered to her address with another person’s name on it
Footage shows EMS personnel scraping dirt from the man’s body, who was still buried up to the chest, before hauling him out of the grave
A state audit shows that the responders should receive benefits if they work more than 15 hours per week
Two victims died and 22 others suffered a range of injuries
The injured included two young children and a pedestrian
All five people were taken to area hospitals with non-life threatening injuries
Crews were struggling with a patient, and troopers responded to the ambulance stopped on a highway
For the former employees, the surprise was a tough pill to swallow.
The new offer guarantees no layoffs in 2014 and 2015; the department will reduce the size of the paramedic class to nine in 2014
The is the first known attempt in D.C. to seek guardianship for a serial 911 caller
After officials noticed some medication missing, a video camera was used to catch another theft
He suffered from extreme dairy allergies; nurses arrived and performed CPR but was pronounced dead at a hospital later
The boy was playing in his front yard when he got something in his foot, said to be a cactus needle; he either bent over or sat on the road to get it out
Firefighters freed the man and brought him to a local hospital, along with his severed arm
A woman struck by an alleged drunken driver while protecting trick-or-treaters on Halloween made her first public appearance since the incident with the help of Oaklawn EMS
He is still collecting a city paycheck and is on desk duty for the Dayton Fire Department and drives himself to work
The EMT is expected to make a full recovery; the call was phony in order to steal pharmaceutical drugs