News
Here you will find all of the latest news from our department.| ImageTrend releases 2025 EMS Insights Report highlighting national trends shaping prehospital care | Monday February 23rd, 2026 |
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Using a large national EMS dataset, the report delivers a data-driven snapshot of clinical, operational and workforce trends to inform decision-making and system improvement |
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| Ohio brothers sell first responder T-shirts to raise money for children's cancer research | Monday February 23rd, 2026 |
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2BUnited, founded by Jacob and Carter with guidance and support from their parents, partnered with Briarwood Products to raise money for St. Jude. Children's Research Hospital |
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| N.C. EMS updates 911 call sorting, lights and siren use as call volume grows | Monday February 23rd, 2026 |
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Wake County EMS is rolling out a data-driven dispatch update that sharpens call triage and reduces lights-and-siren responses for select non-critical calls |
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| Ill. bill would add EMS personnel to line-of-duty death benefits | Monday February 23rd, 2026 |
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A GOP-backed bill would expand the Illinois Line of Duty Compensation Act to cover EMTs, paramedics, dispatchers and other licensed EMS professionals |
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| Former Mont. EMT instructor accused in fourth county as new rape charges filed | Monday February 23rd, 2026 |
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John Joseph Carlbom, a former EMS supervisor and instructor whose license was revoked amid misconduct findings, faces the latest allegations tied to his time leading ambulance services and EMT courses in Deer Lodge |
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| $500 reward offered in Va. ambulance hit-and-run | Monday February 23rd, 2026 |
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A white Ford F-250 crew cab with a black flatbed is believed to have struck a Little Fork Volunteer Fire & Rescue ambulance responding to a call, then driven off |
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| Conn. FD adds second ambulance to improve response, cut mutual aid | Monday February 23rd, 2026 |
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A new ambulance gives Lebanon two ambulances for the first time, boosting capacity for concurrent calls and reducing the need for outside aid |
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| N.C. EMS honors 24 cardiac arrest survivors at 'Hearts and Heroes' reunion | Sunday February 22nd, 2026 |
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The Cabarrus County event reunited survivors with telecommunicators, bystanders and responders, highlighting 24 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest saves in 2025 |
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| FDNY rescues teen who fell 50 feet inside bridge shaft during TikTok stunt | Sunday February 22nd, 2026 |
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A 16-year-old was pulled from a Queensboro Bridge shaft after a five-story fall left him with major trauma and hypothermia, prompting a time-consuming high-angle rope rescue |
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| Coast Guard rescues injured woman, teen after icy falls on Wash. mountain | Saturday February 21st, 2026 |
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A 51-year-old hiker and a 16-year-old boy were airlifted from Mount Ellinor after slipping in an icy avalanche chute |
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