In 2011, Gloucester became the first city in the state to have both police and firefighters carry Narcan. Other cities within the state, such as Amesbury, have started to adopt this practice and recently announced that Amesbury Police Department will start carrying narcan as well. [Read the full story…]

In response to the incident, Waymart will have a dozen radios programmed with identifiers so communication center dispatchers know the radio communication is authentic. Waymart is also conducting an investigation to see if it was one of their employees or possibly a disgruntled applicant who was rejected. [Read the full story…]

The decision is due to the drastic increase in heroin overdoses within the city. In addition, there was a recent change in the Department of Health’s regulations, which encourages all first responders to have access to the potentially life-saving medication. Gov. Deval Patrick recently declared a “heroin emergency” within the state as well.

The police department is working closely with Amesbury EMT’s who are already carrying Narcan on their units. The project is overseen by the Amesbury Fire Department, which is the lead EMS agency for the city. According to Amesbury Fire Department Deputy Chief David Mather, the police officers will be required to follow the same Advanced Life Support (ALS) guidelines as EMS personnel.

The use of Narcan by first responders is becoming more widespread. In October 2013, Jefferson County announced its BLS units may start carrying Narcan as well. [Read the full story…]

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The firefighters were treating two patients when the CHP officer instructed one of the firefighters to move the fire truck. The firefighter refused and continued to treat the patients, at which point he was then handcuffed and placed in the back of the CHP patrol car. The firefighter was detained for approximately 30 minutes and then released at the scene.

The CHP and Chula Vista Fire Department will meet today in order to discuss the incident. [Read the full story…]

This is a message from the Palo Alto Fire Department. Palo Alto firefighters will be hosting a community pancake breakfast benefiting Project Safety Net this Saturday, Oct. 12, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Rinconada Park, located at 777 Embarcadero Road. The event will include a simulated automobile rescue using the Jaws of Life and a live landing of Life Flight’s helicopter. For additional information, please find us on Facebook and Twitter or visit Project Safety Net at www.psnpaloalto.com.

Some residents claim this was a misuse of the emergency notification system because they believe it was primarily sent as a way to market the fire department’s charity pancake breakfast. In the fire department’s defense, Chief Nickel states the notification was not intended as a way to market the event, but instead it was sent out of concern that residents would flood the 9-1-1 dispatch system when they saw the Life Flight helicopter landing in town.

Citizens are naturally curious when they see emergency personnel and apparatus, so the fire department wanted to ensure the community was aware this was a simulated event and not an actual emergency. [Read the full story…]

BART is a non-profit organization that trains EMS providers to be better prepared in dealing with animals on scene. The course consisted of the following three stations:

• Handling and restraining
• Resuscitation
• Determining heart rate and respiratory rate

The fire department was provided with a kit to restrain animals and medical tools for treatment. [Read the full story…]

If the proposal is approved by the director of the state’s EMS bureau and the commissioner of the Department of Health, Jefferson County’s BLS units — (5) ambulance agencies and (21) first responder agencies — will start carrying an intranasal form of Narcan.

This measure stems from an increase in overdose deaths in Jefferson County over the past two years. [Read the full story…]

The EMR program operates on Fridays and Saturdays from 1900-0700 and the crew consists of two EMT’s that are college students and one FTO to supervise.

The new service pulled its first shift at the beginning of the Fall semester and so far the majority of the calls have been ETOH related, lacerations and complaints of pain. [Read the full story…]

Lalo Delgado called 9-1-1 because his girlfriend caught on fire after his car went up in flames. A seemingly emergent and scary situation for Delgado was met with laughter by the dispatcher. A stunned Delgado then questioned the dispatcher about the chuckling in the background and the dispatcher told him it wasn’t regarding his situation.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is currently investigating the nature of the laughter. [Read the full story…]