News
Here you will find all of the latest news from our department.| Gun regulation activist arrested for spray-painting 9/11 Memorial | Wednesday October 28th, 2026 |
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The man caused more than $2,550 in damage after spray-painting his website across victim panels at the memorial’s north pool, an act he filmed and posted to Instagram before his arrest |
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| Pa. law eases youth fire, EMS restrictions | Wednesday October 28th, 2026 |
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Gov. Josh Shapiro signed House Bill 2014, letting 14- and 15-year-old volunteers train until 10 p.m. on weekends and summer breaks instead of 9 p.m. and ride in emergency vehicles to calls, aiming to ease scheduling barriers amid a sharp decline in the state’s volunteer EMS and fire ranks |
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| Va. ambulance billing program generates $13M in first year | Wednesday October 28th, 2026 |
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Virginia Beach’s “compassionate billing” program, which doesn’t charge residents co-pays or deductibles, funded seven new ambulances and 43 new EMS hires while distributing $4.2 million to volunteer rescue squads that had struggled to keep pace with rising equipment costs |
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| Wis. municipalities double fire, EMS funding to avoid district disbandment | Wednesday October 28th, 2026 |
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Facing a $2.2 million budget shortfall driven by low Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements, Baraboo and surrounding municipalities agreed to raise their combined contributions from 18% to 37% of the district’s budget |
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| Number of injured in Va. deck collapse rises to 39 | Tuesday October 27th, 2026 |
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Williamsburg officials revised the number of people hurt in the homecoming party deck collapse from 28 to 39, with 13 taken by ambulance and 26 seeking their own transportation |
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| Cyberattack forces N.M.'s only Level 1 trauma center to divert ambulances | Tuesday October 27th, 2026 |
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UNM Health System canceled clinic appointments and sent ambulances elsewhere as it worked to resolve a cybersecurity incident involving a claimed theft of patient and employee data |
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| Calif. first responders train for mass casualty scenarios ahead of Sikh Parade | Tuesday October 27th, 2026 |
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About 15 regional firefighters and EMTs practiced triaging simulated patients ahead of the Nov. 1 Sikh Parade, which draws roughly 150,000 attendees to a city of 70,000, with no other equipped hospital within 45 miles |
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| 1 dead, 2 injured in Mich. ambulance crash | Tuesday October 27th, 2026 |
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A 36-year-old patient died after the Aspire Health System ambulance transporting her rolled over when struck by a Jeep Grand Cherokee in Sterling Heights |
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| 4 injured in KY ambulance crash | Tuesday October 27th, 2026 |
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A Rowan County ambulance carrying a critical patient collided with a car in Lexington, sending three others to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries while a second ambulance completed the patient’s transport |
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| 15-year-old charged in shooting that wounded 11 at Fla. homecoming game | Monday October 26th, 2026 |
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Police say a fight preceded the shooting outside FAMU’s Bragg Memorial Stadium, with none of the 11 gunshot victims, six of them minors, believed to be intended targets |
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