Accused EMT killer too chicken to face victim’s friends in court
The Bronx career criminal accused of mowing down an FDNY EMT with her own ambulance was too much of a coward to leave his holding cell for a court appearance Wednesday, where droves of the dead...
View ArticleDomestic abuse survivor weds EMT who saved her
Four years ago, Melissa Dohme got a phone call that turned her life upside down – for the worst and eventually the better. The nursing student, then 20 years old, got a call from her ex-boyfriend about...
View Article‘Sorry, I had to’: Paramedic arrested for fondling teen having seizures
A California paramedic faces charges for allegedly fondling a seizing woman in need of medical assistance. Jared Evans, 32, turned himself in Monday after learning there was a warrant for his arrest,...
View ArticleParamedic arrested for sexual assault on woman in ambulance
A Wisconsin paramedic faces charges for sexually assaulting a female patient while en route to the hospital. Clifford Heiser, 32, resigned from his duties Tuesday as a Wausau firefighter and paramedic...
View ArticleCity is denying 9/11 first responders disability pensions
Fire Department paramedics and EMTs who responded to the 9/11 attacks and now suffer from medical illnesses say the city is forgetting about them. The medical first responders, who are employed by the...
View ArticleHero 9/11 EMT denied disability pension because of his weight
The city’s largest pension board is refusing to grant a disability pension to a 291-pound worker who developed asthma after the cleanup effort at Ground Zero, saying his weight was the chief cause of...
View ArticleParamedic overdoses while treating OD patient
An Ohio paramedic accidentally overdosed while treating a patient suffering from an apparent opioid OD, officials said. Fairborn city officials said that the emergency responder began to show signs of...
View ArticleParamedics grant elderly woman’s last wish to see the beach
This is the touching moment a paramedic stands by the side of a patient as she sees the beach in Australia one last time. The palliative care patient, in her 70s, had been traveling with ambulance...
View ArticleHero paramedic jumps into freezing Hudson to save man’s life
A heroic FDNY paramedic plunged into freezing waters to rescue a man in the Hudson on Saturday afternoon. Niall O’Shaughnessy, 40, a veteran paramedic with the department, was working with his partner...
View ArticleVeteran FDNY paramedic busted for child porn still on city payroll
A veteran FDNY paramedic was busted a year ago on felony charges of distributing child pornography, but has stayed on the city payroll while negotiating a plea in hopes of saving his job, The Post has...
View ArticleBig surge in FDNY personnel on ‘light duty’
FDNY firefighters and officers have increasingly been placed on “light duty,” turning New York’s heroes into desk jockeys and go-fers, The Post has learned. The number of FDNY men and women on light...
View ArticleWoman charged with abuse for leaving ‘s–ty’ note on ambulance
A UK woman who left a nasty note telling paramedics to “move your van” because she didn’t “give a s–t” during an emergency call was arrested for verbal abuse, according to police. The foul-mouthed...
View ArticleWoman admits leaving ‘s–t’ note on ambulance, abusing first responders
A jobless loudmouth was branded “despicable” after she admitted hurling abuse at paramedics as they helped her elderly neighbor. Kirsty Sharman, 26, said she left an angry “move now” note on an...
View ArticleAccused EMT killer declared unfit to stand trial
The stoned joyrider accused of fatally running over an EMT and mother of five with her own ambulance last year has been found mentally unfit for trial by court-appointed shrinks, The Post has learned....
View ArticleEMT busted for drunk driving refused breathalyzer: cops
An off-duty FDNY paramedic was arrested early Sunday for drunkenly crashing his car on a Brooklyn highway and then refusing to take a Breathalyzer test, cops said. Daniel Mahlmann, a 27-year-old EMT,...
View ArticleMedics detail rampant sex harassment in bombshell lawsuit
Five female paramedics for the Chicago Fire Department claim they were sexually harassed by their supervisors, including a commander who tried to kiss one woman in an ambulance, allegedly telling her:...
View ArticleTeen shot in head stuns EMTs when he starts breathing under sheet
A Chicago teenager who was shot in the head several times stunned paramedics when he began breathing and moving underneath the sheet they placed on his body, according to reports. Erin Carey, 17, was...
View ArticleMom says daughter died after medics assumed she couldn’t afford ambulance
A Florida woman says her sick daughter died because paramedics racially discriminated against her and refused to take her to the hospital — because they assumed she couldn’t afford the ambulance ride....
View ArticleYonkers EMTs, paramedics star in ‘Nightwatch Nation’
A&E’s “Nightwatch Nation” shines a light on the after-dark world of EMTs and paramedics in Yonkers. The series, premiering Thursday at 10 p.m., follows three crews from Empress Ambulance, a Yonkers...
View ArticleParamedic found nanny’s alleged victim ‘barely breathing’
A nanny stuffed a balled-up baby wipe down the throat of a two-month old infant, cut his mouth with a sharp object and broke his arm, prosecutors said Friday at the defendant’s attempted-murder trial....
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