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.
The right messaging and training can give community members the confidence to step up during emergencies
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
After helping her over the guardrail, the driver sat with the woman until a counselor and a corrections officer who happened by offered to take over
Until the county can find long-term sites, 16 EMTs and paramedics will temporarily relocate
The city is expected to put a contract up for bid, but the fire department will not be allowed to submit
The Las Vegas family had purchased the ambuance to transport their disabled son lying down
The baby made a “horrible gasping noise” as several of her ribs were broken and there was damage to her lungs
Although his relatives don’t know why he left, they know he loved them
The boy swallowed a camera battery and died after suffering cuts to his esophagus and gastric irritation
Tractor trailer rigs can be seen piled up with passenger cars smashed in between in this fatal wreck that authorities say was caused by a dust storm
Students and teachers made dozens of calls to police after a 12-year-old boy opened fire on a teacher and two peers
With ambulances often 30 minutes or more away, the city is working to fully staff the station
Although the medic was driving the ambulance to an emergency, policy says to stop at red lights and look both ways
As part of its mission, the hospital is giving back to communities by providing advanced life support equipment to some local fire departments
Students were vomiting and multiple people were carried on stretchers to ambulances
Neither sibling made it to the hospital alive, and the family is now burying two young adults ages 20 and 21
He cut it off because he was frustrated about being single, then cycled to the hospital without it; doctors were unable to reattach
He made the inexpensive yet functional prosthetic hand for his son who was born without fingers on one of his hands
The clerk sustained minor injuries after his cellphone shielding him from the gunshot
Fayette EMS chief Rick Adobato went from caregiver to patient, and then came back again
They stood in front of the vehicle until police arrived on the scene and arrested the man
This will be achieved through 12-hour shifts of part-timers with on-call stipends for each shift
Both volunteers are still in critical condition after being thrown while treating a patient
Created to assist with long-term problems following the school massacre, the funds available are ‘completely inadequate,’ a union lawyer says
Responders were able to locate the part of the nose and took it to the hospital where the boy was being treated
While giving a lecture to her class, her heart stopped beating and she collapsed onto her desk; students called 911 and brought a defibrillator into the classroom
On Sunday, three people remained in the hospital days after the Vortex suddenly started spinning as riders were getting off
A paramedic on the other end of the phone talked the father through the delivery
Hayley Barley, 24, suffers from Hirschsprung’s disease, a condition which makes her stomach so swollen she looks like she is about to give birth
Daniel Delgado, 31, allegedly punched a paramedic in the chest and Hector Moreno, 24, reportedly ran from across the street and tried to punch another paramedic
