EMS1 Daily News

Hennepin EMS official said the police’s swift, accurate tally of victims let medics move the wounded quickly to three hospitals

Monarez was fired less than a month after refusing to back “unscientific, reckless directives,” as four other senior CDC leaders resigned in protest

Metro Atlanta Ambulance Service now carries whole blood on ALS units across Bartow, Cobb and Paulding counties

Minneapolis Police say the shooter opened fire through church windows toward the children sitting in the pews during school Mass before dying at the scene

New Orleans EMS providers recall wading through floodwaters, improvising landing zones and carrying patients when 911 went silent 20 years ago

The Life Flight helicopter, responding to an ATV wreck, clipped a business sign

Addressing Sioux City Fire Rescue, the “Black Hawk Down” surgeon said only 2 % of U.S. rigs carry blood

FEMA workers who joined a 180-signature letter warning that staff and budget cuts imperil disaster response have been put on indefinite paid leave

The Knox County EMS director had a blood alcohol content of nearly twice the legal limit

Lake County officials said the change will cut the average workweek to 42 hours and boost health, morale and staffing

Seattle has cut overdose deaths 20% since 2024 and strengthened its Health 99 post-overdose response team

Alexandria Police Officer Whitney Buerger, once saved by an AED herself, delivered a shock that revived a man in cardiac arrest

Experts say Katrina’s communication breakdowns, coordination gaps and aid delays still shape policy and should guide today’s debates over FEMA’s future

Honoring his parents’ care, a philanthropist gave $367,600 to buy an ambulance, easing response times after the Fairfield’s lone medical truck failed

Four grant-funded paramedics now staff Wakefield EMS around the clock

The 9/11 Memorial and Museum hiked executive pay to $850K amid big deficits and taxpayer aid, angering victims’ families

The “Katrina Declaration and Petition to Congress" calls out reductions to CERT, the National Fire Academy and hazard grants as weakening national disaster readiness

Mercy Flight deployed three helicopters when a tour bus carrying 54 people rolled over near Exit 48A in Pembroke

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court removed a lower-court block on $783 million in National Institutes of Health research grants

Volunteer AEMT Jeff Wirth joined Erie Fire Protection District in 1977 and has seen the ambulance service grow from basic first aid to 24/7 paramedic coverage