Australia – The wife of a paramedic killed during a complex rescue operation on NSW’s south coast has paid tribute to her husband. Mick Wilson, 41, died when a helicopter winch line he was attached to was cut during the rescue of two canyoners at Carrington Falls, southwest of Wollongong, on Christmas Day. ”Michael’s passing [...]

VOLUSIA, Fla. — Three paramedics with more than 30 years collective experience were fired for violating a no-smoking policy, a spokesman confirmed on Saturday.Where does it stop? Will they start to ban other risky pursuits, like motorcycle riding? “I was terminated for something I do at home and is perfectly legal,” Mike Stone told the [...]

FORT WORTH, Texas – North Texas’ heat wave is keeping paramedics busy. Officials with Medstar in Fort Worth said they’re responding to an average of 31 heat-related calls a week. They say the demographic they see most often for heat exposure, heat exhaustion or heat stroke is adults 65 years and up. Most of the [...]

Who do you think would make a better partner: Chuck Norris or Darth Vader? How about Wile E. Coyote? Here’s my ideal list of celebrity partners. It was a late December night a few years ago, and my partner and I were bored. Perhaps boredom and cabin fever got the best of us, and since [...]

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A boy was arrested over the weekend on charges of stealing from an ambulance while paramedics were treating his mother

A group of armed men blew up an ambulance, apparently with a grenade, to kill a rival who was being transferred from one hospital to another

A sharp increase in swine flu cases in Australia may mean the infection has become a pandemic, the World Health Organization say

Oklahoma’s Tulsa World newspaper reports on a fight between a brown-shirted highway patrol officer, who has pulled over an ambulance that was racing a patient to hospital, and the paramedic

A paramedic in Lusaka who became sick, was transported to Johannesburg and died. The three others infected were health care workers in Johannesburg