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 →
When Thomas Phelan and Keith Young died within a day of each other in March, in both cases it was as a result of cancer. But the underlying cause of Continue Reading →
This year’s World Rescue Challenge will take place in Cape Town on 20-27 October, with the South African Medical Rescue Organisation (SAMRO) having won the bid to host the 2018 Continue Reading →
Emergency services, public authorities, researchers and industry representatives from all around the world will join forces at this year’s European Emergency Number Association (EENA) Conference in April in Budapest to Continue Reading →
‘It takes a system to save a life’ is the theme of EMS2017 Congress on 22-24 May in Copenhagen, to highlight the important role played by systems to enable individuals Continue Reading →
A new EMS-equipped chopper, which has been leased to Australia’s largest aeromedical charities LifeFlight, will now support emergency medical services, in addition to search and rescue missions in Queensland. “We Continue Reading →
New Zealand Fire Service, the National Rural Fire Authority and the country’s 38 rural fire authorities are due to be amalgamated into a single unified organisation by 1 July 2017, Continue Reading →