EMS1 Daily News

Facing a $2.2 million budget shortfall driven by low Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements, Baraboo and surrounding municipalities agreed to raise their combined contributions from 18% to 37% of the district’s budget

Williamsburg officials revised the number of people hurt in the homecoming party deck collapse from 28 to 39, with 13 taken by ambulance and 26 seeking their own transportation

UNM Health System canceled clinic appointments and sent ambulances elsewhere as it worked to resolve a cybersecurity incident involving a claimed theft of patient and employee data

About 15 regional firefighters and EMTs practiced triaging simulated patients ahead of the Nov. 1 Sikh Parade, which draws roughly 150,000 attendees to a city of 70,000, with no other equipped hospital within 45 miles

A 36-year-old patient died after the Aspire Health System ambulance transporting her rolled over when struck by a Jeep Grand Cherokee in Sterling Heights

A Rowan County ambulance carrying a critical patient collided with a car in Lexington, sending three others to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries while a second ambulance completed the patient’s transport

Police say a fight preceded the shooting outside FAMU’s Bragg Memorial Stadium, with none of the 11 gunshot victims, six of them minors, believed to be intended targets

The collapse at a homecoming party in Williamsburg sent 13 people to the hospital by ambulance and 15 via their own transportation

The proposed levy would let Iowa County supervisors collect up to $1.50 per $1,000 of assessed value for 15 years, as one supervisor questions the need given flat call volume despite EMS expenses rising more than 30% since 2022

Fire union leaders fear removing police from nonviolent 911 calls could endanger first responders if situations turn dangerous, as finance officials warn the $16.8 million Department of Neighborhood Safety could exhaust opioid settlement funding by 2032

The Salem High School bus overturned nearly a full rotation after striking a Kia while exiting I-20, with one student airlifted via Life Flight among 27 people aboard

Walter Gera, 34, is accused of repeatedly kicking an EMT and damaging a Schuylkill EMS ambulance during a voluntary mental health transport, with troopers executing an arrest warrant after his psychiatric discharge

A new audit found the city lacks basic oversight of its behavioral crisis response program, which has cost more than $25 million since 2021, as a council vote to keep current vendor Canopy Roots instead of a new contractor faces a mayoral veto

San Luis Ambulance, the county’s exclusive provider since 1945, will compete against a Paso Robles-led public-private partnership proposal as county supervisors prepare a Request for Proposal update

North Oakland County Fire Authority, Oxford, Holly and Groveland Township will use the regional grant to replace 15 aging cardiac monitors

North Royalton’s proposed five-year, 2-mill levy would generate about $2.27 million annually, letting the city hire three additional firefighter-paramedics to address rising EMS call volume and an aging population

Houston Fire Department and Memorial Hermann dedicated the city’s second Mobile Stroke Unit, equipped with CT scanning and telemedicine, in honor of the late Dr. David Persse

First-season snow and plunging temperatures prompted three separate backcountry rescue missions near Yampa and Hayden, including a hypothermic hunter hauled 1,500 feet uphill through snow

Partnering with International Medic Solutions, REMSA Health is bringing trained medics from Australia into its northern Nevada workforce as about 60% of U.S. EMS agencies face staffing shortages

Rep. Brenda Pugh’s Bill 2848 would provide grants of up to $25,000 every three years to small fire companies and incentivize voluntary consolidation, building on her earlier bill that offered a $6,000 tax credit for firefighters and EMS personnel