ambulances
'NYC doesn't heart you': 80% of New Yorkers who suffer cardiac arrest die due to slow FDNY response
September 21, 2024 | 1:57pmFour out of five New Yorkers who go into cardiac arrest die as response times for NYC's first responder🤡s to medical emergencies continue to soar, startling new data shows.
ꦏPatient steals ambulance, leads cops on wild 30-minute chase through NY suburbs: police 🍷
September 17, 2024 | 6:23pmA 41-year-old Westchester County man sꦕtole an ambulance near a New Rochelle hospital and led cops on🏅 a crazy chase through a half dozen towns before crashing and getting busted,...
Elderly man dead after four-hour wait for ambulance: 'He was calling out'
September 15, 2024 | 12:52pmAn elderly man has died after he was forced to wait four hours foꦅr an ambulance in Melbourne's west, during what the paramedics’ union has descri🌊bed as a critical shortage.
All-female Hasidic EMT corps expanding Brooklyn footprint with second ambulance ꧒
September 5, 2024 | 1:50pmBrooklyn’s all-female EMT corps comprised of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women is exp𓆉anding its reach in the Big Apple – providing life support services despite oppositi💛on from their male counterparts. The Ezras...
🍌 Volunteer Israeli medics reveal never-before-told stories of battli📖ng Hamas, rushing to save lives on Oct. 7
June 15, 2024 | 12:44pmIsraeli medics were the first respo൩nders to the Oct. 7 attacks, arriving at th🎃e scene of the carnage well before IDF troops.
My heart stoppe☂d — then the paramedic tr🍌eating me had a heart attack
March 17, 2024 | 8:54pm"I'm so grateful to him and grateful he was 🥃OK," Daisy Devane said about senior emergency medical technician Jeremy Williams.
NYC responders taking longer to g𒉰et to emergencies and fire deaths are rising, data shows
February 18, 2024 | 7:22pmBig Apple first-re🐽sponders took longer to get to fires and other emergencies, while more people died in blazes, at the start of this fiscal 🍸year compared to last year's, City...
N🐭YC pols renew push 🔯to mandate body armor, self-defense training for EMTs as assaults rise
February 17, 2024 | 1:17pmThe City Council will t𒁏ake a second crack at passing legislation guaranteeing the first responders access to body armor vests and yearly self-defense training.
Welsh Ambulance Service reveals 2023's most ridiculous emergency calls: 'My hand’s stuck in the f--king letterbox'
January 26, 2024 | 9:36pm☂ Calls included a woman who lost her voice, a person whᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚo had eaten too much kebab, one whose hand was stuck in a mailbox and someone who lost their false...
🐠 Hospital patient steals ambulance, leads police on chase in South Carolina
December 29, 2023 | 7:33pmA patient at a South Carolina hospital was feeling well enough to steal an ambulance from the park♒ing lot and ܫlead police on a chase.
NYC ambulance workers sound sirens over $15 congestion toll's impact on response times
December 24, 2023 | 12:14pm♛The city's life savers -- paramedics and EMTs -- are having a panic attack over a controversial plan that will force them to pay a $15 congestion toll just to...
𒈔 FDNY EMS no longer sending stroke patients to Beth Israel in phase-out
December 19, 2023 | 6:15pmTh❀e FDNY-EMS ambulance service is no longer transporting stroke victims and other patients to the Mt. Sinai-Beth Israel ﷽campus.
Florida man in stolen ambulance leads deputies on chase back to sheriff's office
December 14, 2023 | 6:27amA Florida man took a wrong turn during a police pursuit of a stolen ambulance and ended up right where deputies wante🐎d him – on their front lawn.
Woman steals ambulance, taunts a🌸nd waves to bystanders before arrest
November 17, 2023 | 3:18pm46-♛year-old Francine Luღla Hilton faces charges of theft, unauthorized use of a vehicle and fleeing from law enforcement.
FDNY ambulance failed to reach teen stabbed on MTA bus as NYPD cops rushed dying boy to hospital: officials ꦑ
October 14, 2023 | 3:44pmSyles Ula🐠r was fatally stabbed with a knife multiple times in the chest by another 13-year-old on an MTA bus i𝔍n Staten Island.
Northwell Healt🦹h slashes ambulance coverage, raising concerns about NYC emergency response
September 17, 2023 | 5:14pmNew York's largest privatꦿe hospi𒆙tal provider is cutting back on its ambulance service in parts of the city -- raising concerns whether the Big Apple's FDNY EMS system can pick...
Grandmother d🙈ied in agony waiti♔ng 5 hours for ambulance to hospital 5 minutes away
May 22, 2023 | 6:11pm“It haunts me to know she died 𝔍alone in so much pain,” her 29-year-old daughter Nikita said.
I had a headache for 5 days — turns out I had a strok☂e at 32
May 19, 2023 | 5:54pm“I was just wondering how if I made it, how much of my bodily function would I get back? Would I ever be able to talk again?” Aman꧒da Lenza worried.
We quit our front-line jobs to do OnlyFans — we take public service seriously ⭕
May 15, 2023 | 1:39pmT൲hese ex-emergency fꦆirst responders are proving they're sirens in their own right.
💙 FDNY set to increase ambulance ride pri✱ce by more than 50%
March 31, 2023 | 3:12pmThe increase from $900 to $1,385 will go into effe൲ct on May 1.