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Australian Paramedic Sunny Whitfield shares tales from the lighter side of paramedicine, adventure and life
Dov Maisel advises on 5 elements of disaster response as United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit team responds to Florida
Jack Talbot spent 13 days in a coma after an intoxicated carjacker hit him while driving on the wrong side of the road during a police chase
The North West Ambulance Service offered to explain to the man “how every second counts when saving a life”
Hassan Shabbir left the note while paramedics treated a dying man, telling crews not to park their “van in a stupid place and block” his driveway
Former Cardinals pitcher Kyle McClellan’s nonprofit organization was gifted an ambulance for a Haitian orphanage, but they need $7,500 to ship it overseas
The driver allegedly pushed one paramedic and verbally abused the other after they parked the ambulance on double yellow lines while treating a patient
Both rescuers and local residents alike stood atop the remains of apartment complexes, looking through the rubble
The bikes will be introduced on a probationary basis to alleviate slow response times in congested areas of New Delhi
A neighbor of a man being treated by paramedics left a note telling the paramedics not to “park your van in a stupid place and block my drive”
The driver called the female paramedic an “f---ing idiot” for not putting her hazard lights on
Turkey dispatched emergency aid to northern Iraq as officials expressed their “deep sadness” at the tragedy
Coroner Karen Harrold said Rafe Angelo died shortly after birth from oxygen deprivation due to what she called a “critical system failure”
The Flying Cell on Wings is an LTE cell site placed on a drone to connect first responders and residents while the network is restored
Users of the free 911 CDMX app can now get sound and vibration alerts for any quake strong enough to threaten damage in the city
The probe found computers at 81 health trusts had not been updated to secure them against the WannaCry ransomware attack
Officials said the death toll could rise as many of those who escaped have suffered extensive burns
Lloyd Smith, who began his career as a paramedic in 1996, was a part-time paramedic working for the City of Fernie when the incident occurred
Researchers found that cardiac arrest survival rates remain low in the U.K. due to the lack of knowledge and skills to perform CPR
The messaging app is used to send diagnostic electrocardiograms directly to hospital cath labs
“In our 10 year experience as the first responder in Mogadishu, we haven’t seen anything like this,” the Aamin Ambulance service said
More than 140 New York City firefighters, police officers and other emergency workers are in Puerto Rico to help
Rescue officials said there was a total of 70 passengers on the train but none suffered injuries
Union officials are campaigning for paramedics to be given the opportunity to retire at the age of 60
People aboard the vessel, the Ferrel, sent out a distress signal Wednesday saying they were disabled and adrift in 20-foot waves
Nine New York City police officers and firefighters stayed in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Irma
“This is going to be a historic event for Puerto Rico,” said Abner Gomez, the island’s emergency management director
Just after search and rescue dog teams returned home from Harvey and Irma, they set back out to rescue victims from more disasters
A mix of neighborhood volunteers, police and firefighters used trained dogs and their bare hands to search through ruins
Rescue workers rushed to the site of damaged or collapsed buildings in the capital less than two weeks after another quake left 90 dead in the country’s south
Steffan Williams rescued three people while he was kayaking and alerted his lifeguard dad about two stranded teens two days later
