ambulances

'NYC doesn't heart you': 80% of New Yorkers who suffer cardiac arrest die due to slow FDNY response

Four 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 🍷

A 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'

An 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

Brooklyn’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 

Israeli 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 

"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 

Big 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

The 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'

☂ Calls included a woman who lost her voice, a person whᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚo 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

A 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

♛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

 Th❀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

A 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

46-♛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

Syles 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

New 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

“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

“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 ⭕

T൲hese 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% 

The increase from $900 to $1,385 will go into effe൲ct on May 1.