NEW YORK -- New York City fire officials say more than two dozen students at a school are being treated after a grate collapsed at a school.
Officials say five students were rushed to area hospitals Friday...
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GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. -- Until a few weeks ago, Charles Spirydowski's longest bicycle ride was about three miles -- a jaunt he took with his daughter.
This week, the 37-year-old Housatonic man will...
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WINN, Maine -- Hubert Aldrich doesn't want his ATV club's next accident to be fatal.
The Lee man is among as many as 110 state club leaders working with LifeFlight of Maine to set rescue helicopter landing...
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SAN DIEGO -- The Navy and Coast Guard were scouring the ocean early Thursday for two more members of a Navy flight crew whose helicopter went down on a training flight from an aircraft carrier, killing...
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LAKE-SUMTER, Fla. -- Lake-Sumter EMS officials say some residents have received calls from solicitors identifying themselves as "local EMTs" and asking for private and personal information.
A statement...
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FRESNO, Calif. -- Fresno firefighters had to improvise in order to transport...
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UPLAND -- The high-pitched wail of an emergency vehicle siren is a sound recognized by everyone.
Thousands of calls from paramedics are received by the San Antonio Community Hospital emergency room technicians...
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Lancaster, Pa. -- Ben Stiles sat motionless as emergency-service teams swarmed around him, removing pieces of his crashed vehicle, bit by bit.
The counselor at Lancaster County Career & Technology Center's...
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NORMAL, Ill. -- Automated external defibrillators on the walls of dozens of public buildings in McLean County may be giving people a false sense of security if the AEDs haven?t been serviced in several...
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Phyllis Weiss awoke in the middle of the night, her arms flailing wildly. She tried to speak but couldn't. Her right side was paralyzed. Her husband called 911 and said she was having a stroke.
Hoping...
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SAN DIEGO -- Bodies were found Wednesday of three of the five crew members who were aboard a Navy helicopter that crashed into the ocean southwest of San Diego, military officials said.
Rescue teams continued...
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A Wayne County emergency medical technician left his cell phone at the wrong place.
Now he's incarcerated in Wayne County jail on charges that he sexually abused a young boy over the past two to three...
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When Little Bijou, the white 12-pound Coton de Tulear, got itself onto thin ice off the Lake House in Clove Lakes Park last winter, it looked like curtains.
Luckily for the dog, Rose Mary Lopez and Joe...
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PHOENIX -- A car traveling the wrong way on Interstate 10 on the outskirts of Phoenix smashed into a tractor-trailer rig, causing a fire that destroyed the truck and injured at least four people.
The...
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MANILA (Kyodo) -- At least 16 people have been killed in a landslide that hit a mining village in the southern Philippines, disaster officials said Tuesday.
Liza Mazo of the Office of Civil Defense said...
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GENEVA -- Drug manufacturers won't be able to start making a swine flu vaccine until mid-July at the earliest, weeks later than previous predictions, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. It will...
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] WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Supreme Court says it won't block a lawsuit against a railroad involved in a deadly derailment...
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SALISBURY, Md. -- Authorities in Salisbury say 17 people, including 14 students, were taken to the hospital after a crash involving a Wicomico County school bus.
The crash involving the bus and two other...
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Editor?s Note: Click here to read about the role of EMS in the 2008 Midwest flooding.
HANNIBAL, Mo. -- The city of Hannibal made weekend preparations for flood waters, but a Mississippi River crest was...
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NEW YORK -- A smoky electrical fire at a Manhattan hospital forced the evacuation of several patients and staff in two buildings.
It happened at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical...
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LOS ANGELES -- A moderate earthquake that jolted Southern California was felt by millions and sent at least one person to a hospital, but the region avoided significant damage and major injuries.
The...
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Friday appointed Dr. Thomas Frieden as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, turning to a health commissioner who led the campaign to ban smoking...
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