Road Rescue In Service for Life™

Industry Headlines from JEMS.com

• 05/21/2013 08:09 AM
  Many Dead, Including Children, After Tornado Strikes Oklahoma City Suburb
  Desperate search and rescue effort at elementary school in Moore.
  

  A boy is pulled from beneath a collapsed wall at the Plaza Towers Elementary School following a tornado in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as half a mile (.8 kilometers) wide with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph) roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. (AP Photo/ Sue Ogrocki)

  
• 05/20/2013 05:54 PM
  Oklahoma School Takes Direct Hit from Large Tornado
  At least 50 dead as neighborhoods in Moore are flattened and blown apart.
  

  This photo provided by KFOR-TV shows a house fire outside Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. A monstrous tornado as much as a mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. (AP Photo/KFOR-TV)

  
• 05/20/2013 03:10 PM
  2 Children Killed, 4 People Injured, in Indianapolis Condo Fire
  Two autistic children were killed and four other people were injured when they were caught in a fire Monday in the Indianapolis condominium, authorities said.
  

  Fire crews are on the scene of an apartment fire Monday May 20th, 2013, at an Indianapolis condominium building on the city's East Side. Authorities say two children have died and four other people were injured from the fire. (AP Photo/The Star, Michelle Pemberton)

  
• 05/20/2013 02:56 PM
  Columbus, Ohio, EMS Goal Is to Increase Use of CPR by Everyone
  The Columbus Division of Fire's EMS and Safety Day kicked off EMS Week, a national awareness effort designed to tune communities into the challenges that their emergency medical-service workers face. Above all, they'd like Columbus-area residents to learn how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• 05/20/2013 12:32 PM
  Maine EMS Department Promoting EMS Week
  Lisbon Emergency offers several free community events.
• 05/20/2013 10:26 AM
  Several Tornadoes Strike Midwest Injuring Many
  21 injuries reported throughout Oklahoma.
  

  A flag flies in the debris of a mobile home after a tornado struck a mobile home park near Dale, Okla., Sunday, May 19, 2013. (AP Photo Sue Ogrocki)

  
• 05/19/2013 02:31 AM
  President Obama Issues EMS Week Proclamation
  Obama: EMS professionals display "the very best of the American spirit."
• 05/19/2013 01:44 AM
  Up to 60 Injured after Car Drives into Va. Parade
  Paramedics and other first responders participating in the parade facilitated quick response.
  

  Emergency personnel respond to one of the people hit by a car, at right, during the beginning of the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in Damascus, Va., Saturday, May 18, 2013.

  AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, Earl Neikirk
  
• 05/19/2013 01:44 AM
  Up to 60 Injured after Car Drives into Va. Parade
  Paramedics and other first responders participating in the parade facilitated quick response.
  

  Emergency personnel respond to one of the people hit by a car, at right, during the beginning of the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in Damascus, Va., Saturday, May 18, 2013.

  AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, Earl Neikirk
  
• 05/17/2013 11:24 PM
  Images, Video: Commuter Trains Collide in Connecticut; 60 People Injured
  Passengers described a chaotic, terrifying scene of crunching metal and flying bodies.
  

  Injured passengers are transported from the scene where two Metro North commuter trains collided, Friday, May 17, 2013 near Fairfield, Conn. Bill Kaempffer, a spokesman for Bridgeport public safety, told The Associated Press approximately 49 people were injured, including four with serious injuries. About 250 people were on board the two trains, he said. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Christian Abraham)