The year’s World Rescue Organisation (WRO) Challenge, which was due to take place in Miami, has been moved back to November 2021, due to the COVID-19 crisis. It means that Continue Reading →
Wednesday 9 October is the deadline to nominate your real-life heroes for next year’s ‘112 Awards’ Ceremony, which will again take place in the Latvian capital of Riga on 1 Continue Reading →
Rescue teams from around the world who want to take part in the ‘Holmatro Rescue Challenge’ at Interschutz 2020 in Hannover, Germany on 15-20 June 2020, must sign up before Continue Reading →
The largest medical exercise ever conducted within the framework of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism – 2018 Modex Romania – took place in Bucharest, Romania in mid-October, to assess the capacities of Continue Reading →
BPS Assessment (the online learning arm of the British Pharmacological Society) is providing support to physicians in Canada, with the introduction of its pioneering learning technology aimed at ensuring safer Continue Reading →
New standards, tactics and protocols will help save more lives with drones, according to the findings of new research, which showed that search and rescue (SAR) teams found simulated victims Continue Reading →
Arizona firefighters recently partnered with nurses from a home visiting programme to see if their partnership could help to get smoke alarms to ‘hard-to-reach’ homes.
When responding to emergency medical calls, EMS workers are more likely than firefighters to be assaulted by patients, family members or even bystanders, according to studies undertaken by the US Continue Reading →
Since the first fully operational hospital in Kosovo opened its doors earlier this year, it has been providing surgical and associated medical support services to NATO staff on deployed operations.
Fire station design may not quite play a very big role in turnout times as previously thought, according to recent US research findings into how station design of dormitory location Continue Reading →