May 6, 2024

Review Category : Other News

10/24/2018

Thunder Bay, Ontario – Woman charged after allegedly attacking paramedics, police

Halifax, Nova Scotia – Updates to workers’ compensation rules just the beginning of help for first responders: NDP

Austin, Texas – Medical gear OK, sanitized without water during boil water advisory, medics say

East of England, UK – Britain’s worst ambulance service prepared to pay paramedics 100,000 pounds a year

Perth, Western Australia – Danger-zone warning as paramedics wary after frequent attacks

Hangberg, South Africa – Ambulance attack condemned

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10/23/2018

Montreal, Quebec – Ambulance service takes 11 hours to get emergency hip patient to hospital

Edmonton, Alberta – Mental health support becoming key focus among first responders

Ottawa, Ontario – Inquest into botched 911 call for asthma patient begins

Chester, Pennsylvania – EMS chief dies of cardiac arrest at charity event

Brideford, UK – Ambulance medic killed himself after receiving a work complaint

London, UK – NHS has spent 235,000,000 pounds on private ambulances over the last three years

Sunderland, UK – Paramedic who was trying to meet a teenage boy caught by pedophile hunters, struck off by professional council

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10/22/2018

Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania – Woman charged with stealing ambulance

Amarillo, Texas – Local therapy dogs heading to Florida to help first responders

Hartford, Connecticut – Driver fled on foot after crashing into ambulance

DeKalb County, Georgia – Long waits for ambulances erode public confidence in service

Naperville, Illinois – Man charged with a felony for slamming the door on EMT/firefighter’s foot

Wolverhampton, UK – Woman arrested after assaulting paramedics, police

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