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About 250 firefighters dug through the wreckage of a three-story Brooklyn mixed-use building near a construction site, pulling survivors from beneath the rubble as search and rescue operations continued into the night, with seven of the casualties identified as children
A 61-year-old driver faces three counts of murder and DUI charges after his Toyota Sienna veered off the road at an “unsafe speed,” striking pedestrians and food vendors near a North Hollywood metro station during evening rush hour
EMS crews are being redirected from Gateway Regional Medical Center and sister hospital Vista Medical Center as the Illinois Department of Public Health works with American Healthcare Systems on contingency plans amid ongoing payroll problems and “staffing instability.”
The city argues Antonio Mays Jr. had only a 5-10% chance of survival regardless of emergency care, challenging jury instructions in the civil case that found Seattle negligent after paramedics drove away from a vehicle attempting to flag them down for help
Jersey Community Hospital CEO Kevin Zachary says the ambulance service faces a $650,000 annual shortfall, prompting the county board to consider placing a 0.5% public safety sales tax increase on the February 2027 primary ballot
Ute Pass Health Service District’s community paramedics, highlighted in a Presken Consulting study, offer EMS agencies a model to offset savings lost to expected Medicaid cuts straining rural hospitals
Hazmat teams responded to Lenoir’s Prime Recycling warehouse after a white powdery substance went airborne when workers opened boxes, sending 22 people to be examined and sickening staff at a nearby urgent care who treated an exposed patient
The measure will fund 10 new paramedic positions, averting the staffing cuts St. Charles County Ambulance District officials warned would otherwise strain response times amid rising call volume
AABB, America’s Blood Centers and the American Red Cross warn that reimbursement gaps, supply constraints and inconsistent standards threaten the program’s growth
A roughly 30-minute wait for an ambulance during a Lee County-Southern Lee game, in which one player’s parents drove him for treatment, prompted calls for a dedicated county budget line item, though no state law requires on-site ambulances