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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
Dr. H. Wayne Carver says he wants to know if there is a disease associated with the behavior of the shooter
A large highway was sent into the path of another vehicle killing the three people
Firefighter Mike Solberg has battling brain cancer
Many who attended a town meeting expressed concerns over how to prevent gas leaks
Daniel Barden idolized his father’s cousins who are firefighters in NYC
Tad Thomas somehow flew off a highway turnpike and crashed into a home
Join us as we look back on the most read, commented and shared articles on EMS1 over the past 12 months
It is unclear if the firefighters were responding to a call when their apparatus crashed into the truck
Responders are speaking with counselors, trying to recover from the trauma of dealing with one of the worst mass shootings in US history
Check out footage of some amazing rescues and saves from the past 12 months
The man’s wife said the arriving paramedics and firefighters had no sense of urgency
A passing hiker saw the crash and called the fire department
The examiner said the youngsters that were killed were shot between three and 11 times
The police chief and his wife were riding in their truck when another vehicle that was out of control struck them
The 69-year-old man allegedly bought a shotgun, showed his wife how to use it, and left it alone with her loaded
Students said that it “didn’t feel like Christmas anymore”
A woman is believed to have been shot to death while she was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher
Portland firefighters ditched the tools and used their muscles to lift a car off a man pinned underneath it in January
The assailants used a spray bottle with flammable liquid in the attack
The responders said they wish they never experienced an incident of this magnitude before
While driving home, Firefighter Tommy Goran saw flames and battled the blaze before crews arrived
Two hours of radio traffic between firefighters and police can be heard as the tragedy unfolded
He had to be taken to the hospital with the bars still in his arm
The gunman had enough ammo to kill everyone in the school, ammo designed to do the most damage inside tissue
Having been at the epicenter of an active shooter incident earlier this year, Aurora, Colo. Fire Chief Mike Garcia understands Newtown’s hurt
The number of crashes of responders increased this year, but none resulted in deaths
She was trapped her in her car for over eight hours and likely suffered hypothermia
The ambulance crashed into an SUV crushing the motorist inside her car
Firefighters are forced to sleep in trucks or in personal vehicles to avoid being bitten