EMS1 Daily News

As an Ohio ballot effort seeks to eliminate property taxes, rural ambulance districts say the move could erase up to 70% of their budgets

Saint Francis Hospital will expand its prehospital whole blood program to a fourth EMS agency, with more than 250 field transfusions already credited with saving lives

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has defended Bonsignore's decades-long EMS leadership background, emphasizing her experience leading one of the nation’s largest EMS systems

Armstrong Ambulance says Medford officials chose Cataldo Ambulance Service, a move that union EMTs and paramedics say lacked transparency and public input

All eight members of Roanoke Fire-EMS Recruit Academy 25-2 entered with EMS certifications, allowing an abbreviated 17-week academy ahead of expected retirements

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

Strategic acquisition expands Intersurgical's product portfolio and strengthens its offerings

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

Two civilians were injured after a South Metro Fire Rescue ambulance was involved in a crash

40 people were killed and about 115 injured in the Crans-Montana blaze, with authorities sending critically burned patients to specialty centers in neighboring countries

10 Iowa organizations are set to receive up to $1M each in opioid settlement funding, supporting overdose prevention, treatment access and programs like community paramedicine

The first-year funding from a new federal Rural Health Transformation Program targets hospital stability, EMS sustainability, workforce shortages and ambulance response times

After years of Christmas-season gaps, Carroll County maintained full staffing without mandatory overtime

Spirit EMS crews and community members collected and delivered more than 200 stuffed animals to hospitals and nursing homes across western Ohio and eastern Indiana