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After 12 years and 13,000 volunteer hours, the retired EMT appeared on “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” where ADT’s Everyday Heroes donated $10,000 to the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad
After a tanker crash totaled one rig, Carroll County deployed a spare, fast-tracked a replacement and approved three more purchases
The stolen rig ran a red light, struck another vehicle and was slowed by spike strips
In downtown Montgomery, rival gunmen opened fire after the Tuskegee–Morehouse game
Empress Ambulance Service acquires Northern Dutchess Paramedics, expanding Hudson Valley network
With Willows’ Glenn Medical Center shuttering its emergency department, officials warn of longer response times, urge residents to consider air-ambulance membership
Henry Ford Genesys surgeons describe the “all-hands” response as eight patients arrived moments after a resident phoned from inside the burning church
Funding approved by the Central Texas Public Safety Commission will outfit all Austin Fire Department and Austin-Travis County EMScrews with upgraded body armor
TRENDING NEWS
COLUMNISTS & EXPERTS
It’s unfair to our patients to let professional bravado blind us from the need to maintain low-frequency high-criticality skill proficiency
The caustic commentary of presidential politics is reflective of a deeper issue that impacts how we engage with our patients
Improving ePCR systems make it easier to capture, share, monitor and analyze big data for better local and national patient care
EMS providers can acknowledge their bias as they strive to deliver the best empathetic care to the patients they serve
EMS participation in harm reduction strategies, like giving a naloxone kit to an overdose patient who refuses transport, is worth the cost
The 15th anniversary is a time for quiet reflection and remembrance as well as a chance to discuss top lessons learned from a multitude of events since 9/11
PRODUCT NEWS
Officials extended “Code Red” air quality alerts for a third straight day
Three workers were pinned when the 6-foot-high, 40-foot-long wall collapsed near a trench where they were working
Over 400 wildfires in Canada have affected air quality in several states
Laguna Beach theater students used their makeup, costume skills to play the part of patients for EMT students
Durham EMS is not at the point it was several months ago when ambulances were breaking down on calls
Human metapneumovirus has many of the same symptoms as COVID and RSV
A tourniquet was applied and the worker was flown to the University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital
Ukiah hospital’s ‘Trauma Expo’ brings first responders and ED staff together to experience each others’ jobs during an MCI training drill
An unfinished two-story house in Conroe collapsed on workers, trapping them under piles of lumber
The city has seen ambulances break down en route to the hospital with patients inside, EMS Chief Amera Gilchrist said