Paramedics embedded with police, hospital coordination, drills and regional planning shaped the city's emergency response to the downtown shooting.
Advanced AEDs, sophisticated mechanical CPR devices and automated tourniquets put firefighter/paramedics and EMTs in position to save more lives and increase their ...
Fire department leaders point to research linking gradually increasing alert volume to smaller heart-rate increases.
An Allegheny County 911 dispatcher has been suspended and is facing criminal charges after police say she phoned in a bogus emergency that sent officers racing to her Upper Hill District apartment.
The department is taking a gentler approach to alerting firefighters of incoming calls, with alarms that start softly and a ...
NC's new real‑time crisis dispatch system will now send mobile teams faster when someone calls 988 for a mental‑health ...
Bill McClellan writes about how he once bought a car without air-conditioning in Phoenix. Now he returns from record heat to St. Louis rain — and a sense of relief. Bill McClellan writes: In these ...
It’s designed to function like a high-tech 9-1-1 for mental health, sending mobile crisis teams directly to a caller’s location.