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Falck, City of San Diego's New Ambulance Provider Begins Service
Falck, the City of San Diego’s new ambulance provider, began service on Saturday, months after the city council voted to switch providers.
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EMS Services Warn of ‘Crippling Labor Shortage' Undermining 911 System
The pandemic-induced shortage of emergency medical technicians and paramedics nationwide is so dire that ambulance service providers warn of sharp cuts to services and longer waits for 911 calls — even when it’s a matter of life or death.
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Suspect on the Run in Fatal Shooting of 3 in Texas, Police Say
A manhunt is underway for a former sheriff’s deputy wanted in the fatal shooting of three people in Austin, Texas.
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Medical Experts, Not NYPD, Will Respond to 911 Mental Health Calls as Part of Pilot
For the first time in the city’s history, Mayor de Blasio announced Tuesday that the new mental health professionals and crisis workers will be the dispatched through 911, instead of the NYPD, to respond to mental health emergencies in two high-need communities — calling the pilot program a “major innovation.”
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Woman Accused of Fatally Shooting Daughters, 5 and 7, Pleads Guilty, Sentenced to Life in Prison
Sarah Nicole Henderson, the East Texas woman accused of fatally shooting her two daughters in November 2017, struck a plea deal Wednesday where she’ll avoid the death penalty and spend life behind bars.
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River Rafters Rescue Pilot From Wreckage of Small Plane
A pilot is alive thanks in part to a group of rafters who raced into action when his plane crashed into the Colorado River on Tuesday.
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Time Is Slowing Down in Europe Because 2 Countries Fighting Over Electricity
Millions of Europeans who arrived late to work or school Wednesday had a good excuse — an unprecedented lag in the continent’s electricity grid that’s slowing down some clocks. The problem is caused by a political dispute between Serbia and Kosovo that’s sapping a small amount of energy from the local grid, causing a domino effect across the 25-nation network...
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Gunshot at Georgia School Reignites Debate on Arming Teachers
Police say they don’t know why a popular Social Studies teacher, Jesse Randal Davidson, allegedly fired a handgun inside his classroom, causing a chaotic lockdown and evacuation of his Georgia high school. But it immediately pierced the national debate over whether educators should be armed. Dalton High School teacher Jesse Randal Davidson is accused of barricading himself inside a classroom...
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Unsettling 911 Calls Released in Slayings of Two Henderson County Children
In 911 calls released Friday, the husband of a Henderson County woman charged with murdering her two young daughters is heard crying and revealing upsetting details of the shooting, while at the same time struggling to prevent his wife from harming herself.
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2 CSX Workers Killed by Amtrak Train Outside Union Station
Two CSX railroad employees were fatally struck by an Amtrak train after stepping onto tracks outside Union Station in Northeast Washington, D.C., Tuesday night.