First Responders

EMS workers across the state are receiving training on how to give overdose victims a dose of buprenorphine, which manages cravings and withdrawal symptoms, after reviving them from an overdose with the overdose reversal drug naloxone.

The work will be done over a period of 18 months. It will allow dispatchers to get the exact location of a cellphone call, rather than relying on triangulation using nearby towers.

Proposed projects would add more than 3,000 miles of new carbon pipelines through rural parts of the Midwest. Some emergency officials are concerned about safety, especially after a rupture on a similar pipeline three years ago.

Previously, dispatchers were classified as clerical workers, which didn’t give them access to the benefits other first responders receive. Experts hope this will attract more candidates to the job.

The 911 system in the St. Louis area is inefficient and fragmented and uses outdated technology. That’s according to a new report by Forward Through Ferguson, which examined public safety and the 911 system in the region.

A dispatcher explains how the new county law will help 911 dispatchers to lobby for better pay, benefits, training, mental health services and more.

Gov. Mike Parson opened up eligibility for police officers, firefighters and ambulance crews earlier this month, and the progress in getting them vaccinated has been slow but steady.

The highly contagious coronavirus has forced police and fire departments, often the most public-facing of city services, to change the way they interact…

Researchers at Washington University have found that paramedics and emergency medical technicians are seven times as likely as the general public to have…

If a woman at a restaurant chokes on a chicken bone, millions of people know to wrap their arms around her abdomen and dislodge it, thanks to countless…