EMS Daily News

The battle to preserve the ability of Côte St. Luc’s volunteer Emergency Medical Services to answer extreme emergency calls was one of the more dramatic in the city’s history, as intensive lobbying took place and petitions were organized to prevent the Montreal fire department from taking over that function as planned after the end of […]

Some Sanilac County residents are expected to see quicker response times from ambulances.
McKenzie Memorial Hospital stationed an ambulance in Carsonville last week to provide better service to Bridgehampton, Sanilac and Washington townships and the villages of Port Sanilac and Carsonville, said Steven Barnett, the hospital’s president and chief executive officer. The expanded service comes at […]

WILMINGTON, NC (2008-07-10) Anyone trying to live within a budget knows how difficult that’s becoming with gas prices now hitting around $4 a gallon. It’s an issue that the people who run public services are grappling with as well. So all this week, WHQR News has been looking into how everyone from the trash collector […]

Ed. Note: EMS Daily News in no way condones this practice, but any port in a storm we say.
Responding to a cardiac arrest a few shifts ago resulted in a peculiar problem with an IO. We were at post and the call was a block away at a small, private residence. Getting out of […]

Two weeks after Milford Regional Medical Center ended its advanced life support paramedic service, several local emergency officials said they already notice a difference.
Six towns relied on Milford Regional for paramedic service. They have turned to private ambulance companies or neighboring towns who began their own advance life support in recent years as replacements. In […]

CUT OFF — Nobody knew who the woman with the walker was when she showed up at the office of Lafourche Ambulance District 1.
One night last year, the people there were told, her car was in a major wreck on the Larose overpass. Trapped for nearly half an hour, she drifted in and out […]

GUERNEVILLE - Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies arrested a naked, bleeding man this morning in Guerneville after he allegedly kicked a paramedic in the head and resisted arrest. Just before 8 a.m. units from the Russian River Fire Protection District were dispatched to render medical aid on Guerne Way, according to the sheriff’s office.
Units arrived to […]

There’s a shortage of paramedics in our region.  CBS 21’s Ewa Roman explains what that could mean when you dial 911.
Paramedic Ralph Backenstoes says that more people are entering nursing than EMT these days, one of the causes, for a paramedic shortage in our eight county region.  According to The Emergency Health Services Federation, in […]

They’re usually called to accident scenes, on Saturday, an ambulance was part of one.
A woman’s car rear-ended an ambulance on the corner of Washington Avenue Extension and Fuller Road.
The ambulance was on its way to another call when it was hit.
The EMT then put the driver of the car into her ambulance and put oxygen on her until another […]

An EMS unit was involved in a very serious accident with a pick-up truck sending two men to the hospital.
The two men driving the truck ran a stop sign and broadsided the emergency vehicle.

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A new ambulance is en route to Oregon, although it will be a few months before the Life-Line Superliner becomes a regular member of the Keizer Fire District (KFD).
The Superliner is built on a 2008 Ford F-450 chassis. It cost $155,491 and was purchased during the 2007-08 fiscal year. It replaces Medic 37, an International […]

One magistrate is questioning how the county’s Ambulance Service Director entered into a contract for billing services without governmental approval.
During regular session Tuesday night, Magistrate Roger Phillips questioned the validity of a contract that pays a billing agency 7 percent of all collections, or more than $50,000 for services last fiscal year. Apparently, the contract […]

COLONIE — Members of the Colonie Emergency Medical Service asked the Town Board Thursday to reconsider the plan to end helicopter missions with the State Police, and received at least a temporary reprieve.
About 30 EMS personnel attended the meeting in Town Hall, reading statements and seeking further discussion. The board went into closed session briefly […]

The service officially begins Monday.
HUBBARD — Residents in the city and township now have an ambulance company dedicated to serving the area around the clock.
Life Fleet Ambulance Services will begin serving the Hubbard community Monday morning. The city and township have been without the presence of a committed 24-hour ambulance service for more than two […]

NANTICOKE – The two ambulance companies serving Nanticoke and Newport and Plymouth townships might soon incorporate into the South Valley Regional Ambulance Association. The new department could be established by year’s end.

Newport Twp. EMS workers Michelle Hazleton and Jason Poremba stand next to their community ambulance. […]

Fresno, CA (KFSN) — Health officials blame smoke from fires and the rise in temperatures here in the Valley for these respiratory problems.
Compared to last year at this time emergency crews are responding to more calls for people with trouble breathing.
For the past three weeks smog has covered the Valley floor creating […]

West Richland residents who want their fire district to start running an ambulance service will get a chance to show their support by voting in November to raise their property taxes.
Benton Fire District 4 commissioners Friday authorized putting a levy and a bond issue on the Nov. 2 general election ballot to pay for […]

Grundy County EMS has been recognized as an Air Evac Lifeteam “Working Together, Saving Lives” EMS partner. The EMS agency was honored during a ceremony last Wednesday at the Grundy EMS station in Coalmont.
The Working Together, Saving Lives program was established by Air Evac Lifeteam, a rural provider of air ambulance services, as a means […]

Yup the news is here again. This week we see that until you run EMS as a business or as a government you have bickering and a dysfunctional EMS system.  I point you to the many articles posted this week as proof.  Sure, government ambulance has issues but they have clear laws to follow for […]

Kathy Reasoner, vice president of Bailey-based North Park Ambulance Service, filed a lawsuit on June 30 in Park County Combined Court asking that President Braden Brummit hold the board member/officer election that was scheduled for June 26 and that she continue to be treated as vice president and director of the nonprofit.
Brummit, the defendant in […]

Tallahassee city commissioners gave preliminary approval Wednesday to merging the Tallahassee Fire Department and Leon County Emergency Medical Services.
Leon County is expected to take up the issue Tuesday, after which a formal agreement will have to be worked out.
Wednesday’s vote also obligates the city to pay half of a $197,400 study of how much people […]

Washington, D.C. Fire and EMS, in its continuing efforts to put lipstick on a pig, is integrating civilian medics into their department to form a new “integrated, all-hazards agency.”
Predictably, the fire and non-fire factions of EMS debated the news on various internet EMS forums with a level of enthusiasm and lack of decorum usually reserved […]

CLEARWATER – Pinellas County Sheriff’s detective arrested a Sunstar paramedic on July 2 on one count of sexual battery.
According to a report from the sheriff’s office, Patrick Livingston, 38, of Clearwater allegedly sexually battered a female victim on June 26 while she was being transported by ambulance from her home to a local hospital.
The victim […]

An advisory board will help determine how approximately $95,000 in tax fund money set aside for emergency services will be doled out in Sewickley Township.Supervisors approved two resolutions recently to establish procedures for groups requesting the money, which is collected through a 2-mill tax to support ambulance, rescue and similar emergency services that voters approved […]

The Lake City VA Medical Center Emergency Department and Columbia County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) recently conducted a practice drill to test their response to treating acute coronary syndrome patients.
Brian Eldridge and Isadore Jones, employees of the Lake City VA Medical Center Escort Service, and Pam Dugle, Nurse Manager at the Gainesville VA Medical Center […]