MONTGOMERY, Ind. Nov 12 2017— State police say a volunteer firefighter was killed at a southwestern Indiana crash scene when he was hit by a pickup truck driven by an intoxicated firefighter. Police say 27-year-old Kendall Murphy of Montgomery was among three volunteer firefighters who had arrived Friday night in their personal vehicles to help […]
HAMLET NC Nov 11 2017—A former fire chief is accused of embezzling more than $20,000 following a nearly 20-month investigation by the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation. The SBI’s Financial Crimes Unit on Monday arrested David Allen Knight, 54, of Whistle Road, and charged him with two counts of embezzlement—one for $16,734.97 and one for […]
Washington, D.C. Oct 28 2017 Washington DC joined other area jurisdictions in using a potentially life-saving app that alerts people who know CPR to the location of people suffering heart attacks. People who have the PulsePoint app on their phones are alerted to 911 calls for cardiac arrest within a quarter mile of their location when […]
Charlotte NC Oct 7 2017 Jason Adams’ last call was every EMS provider’s worst nightmare. He responded in January 2016 for a man in reported seizure. Just 29, Adams was the closest medic in a volunteer system—the address was on his street. He entered the North Little Rock home of Mark Eugene Pruitt, who it would […]
GARNER NC Sept 17 2017 A Wake County woman said she’s upset after seeing a community leader touch himself in public. The woman, who didn’t want to be identified, told ABC11 that when she left Target in the White Oak Crossing shopping center in Garner on Thursday, she noticed that the man in the car next […]
Washington DC Aug 16 2017 An angry crowd beat a D.C. firefighter Sunday who authorities say may have been intoxicated or under the influence of drugs when he arrived at an emergency call for an injured child, according to police and fire officials. A spokesman for the D.C. fire department said the 34-year-old firefighter, a 10-year […]
FORT WALTON BEACH FL Aug 10 2017 —Two former Okaloosa County paramedics soon could go to jail because of their so-called “selfie war” that began in September 2015 and continued into the following spring. Kayla Renee Dubois, of Navarre, will be sentenced Aug. 14 and Christopher Robert Wimmer, of Crestview, will be sentenced Sept. 19 by […]
Hilton Head SC Aug 9 2017 A Hilton Head Island Fire & Rescue firefighter has been suspended after he was charged on Sunday with impersonating a police officer after witnesses said he walked around a Hilton Head restaurant asking women to show him their identification. Dominic Socie, 33, was taken to the Beaufort County Detention Center […]
CITY OF NEWBURGH NY July 20 2017 —Three New Windsor volunteer emergency medical technicians were assaulted Sunday evening while driving a patient to the hospital, according to an official with the ambulance corps. Members of the New Windsor Volunteer Ambulance Corps responded to a call to take a woman to St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital for […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio July 6 2017— Columbus firehouses soon will have vending machines that dispense life-saving drugs instead of sweet and salty treats. About $220,000 of the city’s 2017 capital budget is earmarked for the Columbus Division of Fire to buy 18 vending machines that paramedics and firefighters will have to use when restocking medic units […]