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Mich. FD earns national EMS accreditation after relaunching ambulance service
Flint Fire Department becomes one of just 25 to 30 in the nation with active CAAS accreditation, meeting the highest EMS standards…
Iowa county EMS council unveils Phase 1 plan for essential ambulance service
Wapello County’s EMS Advisory Council recommends two round-the-clock ALS crews and a supplemental Ottumwa Fire Department ambulance as a first step, though…
Rural Minn. EMS directors say one-time grants won’t fix funding crisis
Southeast Minnesota ambulance directors say low Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates and rising equipment costs are forcing services toward consolidation, pointing to…
Operative IQ and Signifi partner to bring intelligent resource management to EMS agencies
Integrated vending and smart locker solutions connect secure, automated access to critical supplies and equipment with centralized inventory and asset management
Wash. firefighter shot, suspect killed during EMS call
Renton police officers arrived to assist fire crews with an unconscious person in a vehicle when they heard a gunshot that wounded…
Colo. voters reject tax hikes for over 80 new public safety positions
Longmont’s Ballot Issue 3A failed with 64% opposed, derailing a decade-long plan to add 43 police, 31 fire and 12 crisis-response positions,…
Pa. council backs $401K grant for new EMS radios
VMSC-EMS Deputy Chief Bryson Schroeder said the ambulance corps’ radios are 10 to 12 years old and unserviceable, with North Wales Borough…
Feds miss deadline to announce rural health fund awards to states
Officials cited an “additional administrative process requirement” in delaying the competitive portion of the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program’s second-year funding,…
Tech officer: Seattle FD ignored years-old equity warnings before deploying AI on 911 calls
A 2019 memo warning that AI could introduce bias based on accents, disabilities and race went unaddressed before the department began using…
3 Ohio county communities approve fire, EMS tax levies
Strongsville voters approved a new levy to hire 12 firefighter-paramedics, North Royalton passed a renewal and increase generating $2.27 million annually, and…
Calif. county voters reject sales tax for hospital, fire funding
El Dorado County voters rejected the proposed 30-year, three-eighths-cent sales tax increase, which would have raised an estimated $13 million annually for…
Mich. voters approve 911 fee hike to fund new radios for first responders
Jackson County’s measure, which passed 36,228 to 26,783, will fund roughly $5.5 million in new 800-megahertz radios for all 641 fire and…