EMS1 Daily News

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

Funding is on hold until states certify population data minus those deported under U.S. immigration laws

Elkhart firefighter appeals paramedic ban after nurse harassment complaint

EMT Azelyn Arenas found her daughter among five killed in the Lebanon fire, which also took two adults and two other children

On duty but not on a call, Bristol Firefighter/Paramedic Brandon Clawson suffered a medical emergency at the station

Terre Haute Fire Department adds fourth ALS ambulance to improve response times amid rising EMS call volume

Highlighted by the PWW Advisory Group, the South Dakota Ambulance Association-backed series details funding woes, long response times

Greater Manchester Police say the assailant drove into worshippers, then began stabbing before officers fatally shot him

Two Lee County EMS medics were injured when their ambulance crashed into a tree

The U.S. Forest Service is delaying prevention grants, while FEMA and the National Weather Service trim services and warn of funding gaps

Powell County Paramedic Eddie Barnes won’t be penalized for administering antivenom to a snake-bite victim despite lacking a wilderness certification.

Medicare will pay claims without add-ons if a funding deal takes more than two weeks

Paramedic Nick Mancuso, Flight Nurse Kami Chavez, Pilot Jeffrey Tuning and Copilot Amanda Benson were remembered for lives devoted to saving others

Police say the driver stepped away to check seating just before the bus went through a guardrail and landed on its side

Democrats blocked a GOP short-term bill, demanding reversal of Medicaid cuts and an extension of ACA premium tax credits, while Republicans rejected the trillion-dollar price tag

An internal probe found the Waterbury recruits used phones and computers during the proctored test

Cadet Class 8 joins one of the nation’s busiest EMS systems