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Worcester Polytechnic Institute engineers are creating palm-sized drones that use echolocation to navigate in darkness, smoke and storms
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The city of Southfield agreed to pay $3.25 million to settle a lawsuit tied to the 2020 Timesha Beauchamp case, in which she was pronounced dead by paramedics and later found alive at a funeral home
Columbus Firefighter Richard Barfield Jr. is being honored after rescuing two children and a 4-month-old from a crash, clearing an unresponsive father’s airway, and providing care for seven patients until crews arrived
A $6,687 grant helped the Seekonk Fire Department purchase two IV medication infusion pumps, improving the ability to deliver lifesaving care during transport
Documents outline potential reductions to CORE and surge staffing, raising concerns about disaster response capacity
FDNY EMTs Henry Garcia and Rachel Rosado safely delivered a baby on the side of the Bronx River Parkway during a major snowstorm after realizing a patient’s labor was imminent
A Baltimore County Fire Department paramedic told a judge the sexually explicit videos were “role play” and denied wrongdoing as the fire department and county police investigate allegations of on-duty misconduct
Fourteen people were injured when a Route 54 Houston METRO bus was hit and veered off the McGowen Street overpass
A distressed man pulled from the ocean off an Atlantic City beach allegedly attacked a firefighter with a screwdriver during a rescue
TRENDING NEWS
COLUMNISTS & EXPERTS
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Calls involving celebrities, chemical restraint, protests and mass shootings are just some of the scenarios that will put you in the public eye
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PRODUCT NEWS
A bystander who stopped to perform CPR on the man said within minutes of dialing for help, a drone arrived overhead
The rig hit the underside of a train bridge it was too short to fit under, and the box of the ambulance was partially detached from the front
“I kind of expected that at some point they’d be needed to help somebody. But I didn’t think it would be me,” said Wortham High School’s Teresa McLaughlin
The Handtevy partnership includes a mobile app and education
Each vehicle carries an EMT and basic life support equipment
Two AMR Las Vegas employees had just completed a patient transport when a vehicle hit the ambulance head-on
Do you need a recertification? Refresh2021 continues until March 31
The plan includes an EMT-to-paramedic program in which tuition is covered and trainees can earn while they learn
The company said it is cooperating with a Mississippi bureau of narcotics inquiry
EMS providers were responding to call about a man who was slumped over in a vehicle