Pinellas County, Florida – Paramedics locking criminals out of ambulances
Portage, Wisconsin – EMS, fire department stretched by thinning volunteers
Boston, Massachusetts – Police officer, former EMT deliver baby outside hospital
Glasgow, UK – Patient tried to bite paramedic in rampage that heard him issue death threats to cop’s families
London, UK – Police intervene as patient lashes out at female paramedic while en route to hospital
Cork, Republic of Ireland – 47 attacks on paramedics last year, but no prosecutions
Victoria, Australia – Government cold on laws for paramedics, police with PTSD, say unions
