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Neighboring auto dealership offers bay space for ambulance. View the full article

The impact of the collision overturned the ambulance. View the full article

To show support for the paramedic's actions, people are sending his chief and department blankets. View the full article

The German shepherd was preventing paramedics from entering the home of an unresponsive man. View the full article

It's unclear how the man ended up inside the steamer machine. View the full article

More than 200 people in 14 states have been sickened and 15 have died. Shawn Lockhart looks at the meningitis-causing fungus Exserohilum rostratum at the mycotic lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Oct. 12, 2012 in Atlanta. The staff and technicians have been working around the clock to confirm cases and inform the public regarding the multi-state meningitis outbreak that has resulted in 14 deaths. The fungal outbreak is believed to have started at New England Compounding Center where a steroid injection shipment was contaminated with the fungus. (AP Photo/Pouya Dianat) View the full article

“Floating wine tasting room” hit a shoal near Alcatraz Island. This image provided by KTVU-TV shows some of the 22 rescued passengers on the pier Friday Oct.12, 2012 in San Francisco. A U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said the wine-tasting boat, Neptune hit a shoal near Alcatraz Island and began sinking. Nearly two dozen people who were enjoying a boat ride on what's billed as San Francisco Bay's only "floating wine tasting room" are OK after their vessel hit a shoal near Alcatraz Island and started sinking Friday night. U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Lt. j.g. Josh Dykman says the 45-foot Neptune hit the shoal around 8:42 p.m. and started taking on water after the impact left a 1-foot gash in the side of the boat. The boat's captain tried to get it back to Pier 39, where the boat is docked, but the captain had difficulty navigating the vessel and it started sinking. Dykman says three Coast Guard boats took all 22 passengers and crewmembers off the vessel and brought them back to the pier. There were no injuries.(AP Photo/KTVU-TV) View the full article

Families of victims gather to watch suspects appear before military commission. View the full article

This episode is packed full of guests. We talk at length about swine flu and talk to Greg Bruce that was a Paramedic that got SARS. Then we turn the tables and talk about Dr. Wesley’s article on IV placement in Rural Trauma. This discussion quickly moves to what is good for rural EMS. Featuring: Chris Montera Gary Wingrove Dr. Dave Ross Will Dunn Skip Kirkwood Rob Theriault Buck Feris Greg Bruce (Paramedic that had SARS) Brendan Kearney Aarron Reinert View the full blog

He was loading a patient into the ambulance when it popped out of gear. View the full article

This isn't the first time Congress has pushed for more authority over the industry. This undated image made available by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the Exserohilum rostratum fungus. The CDC said Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 tests have shown Exserohilum fungus in 10 people sickened in the current fungal meningitis outbreak. It’s a common mold found in soil and on plants. (AP Photo/CDC) View the full article

Dispatchers are required to ask more questions of emergency callers. View the full article

They learned to defend themselves following several incidents of violence toward them. View the full article

The bus was knocked on its side after a U-Haul backed into it. San Bernardino County Fire Department paramedics and AMR EMT's treat one of the victims from an over turned school bus on Nisqualli Road in Victorville Calif. Thursday October 11, 2012. A school bus carrying 40 children in Southern California has been knocked on its side in a crash that has injured 13 children and the bus driver. (AP Photo/The Victor Valley Daily Press, James Quigg) View the full article

They studies found they don't have higher rates of non-urgent visits than typical ER patients. View the full article

Medical control, logistics and funding seen as critical issues. View the full article

Rescuers plan to search for missing worker's body until nightfall Thursday. Rescue officials survey damage in the collapsed parking garage at the Miami Dade College West campus in Doral, Fla. Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. One person is still missing. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter) View the full article

Outbreak death toll rises to 14 with 170 confirmed cases in 11 states. This photo provided Oct. 9, 2012, by the Minnesota Department of Health shows shows vials of the injectable steroid product made by New England Compounding Center implicated in a fungal meningitis outbreak that were being shipped to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta from Minneapolis. About 17,700 single-dose vials of the steroid sent to 23 states have been recalled. The outbreak involves 10 states, including Minnesota. (AP Photo/Minnesota Department of Health) View the full article

Commissioner gives county manager a week to resign or he will seek her termination. Lee County Manager Karen Hawes (left) and County Commissioner Frank Mann (right). View the full article

Federal grand jury probing pension fund's disability payments and injury claims. View the full article

Free ambulance service received word of an unfavorable ruling as the Peoria Area EMS Review Board upheld the permanent suspension of the squad. View the full article

"I needed a ride. I needed to get home," View the full article

Survivor was removed nearly 13 hours after the garage floors fell. Rescue workers attend to a victim after a section of a parking garage under construction at a Miami-Dade College campus collapsed, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 in Doral, Fla., killing one worker and trapping at least two others in the rubble, officials said. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter) View the full article

The medic found the video after finding the man asleep at the wheel. View the full article

Reports highlighted examples of waste, such as clinics with more drivers than ambulances. View the full article