Brownsville residents gathered to learn how to stop life-threatening bleeding with hands-on skills to help shooting victims ...

A medical emergency or shooting can unfold without warning — and as paramedic response times grow longer, New Yorkers are ...

I’ve been working since I was 14 years old as a boy in Bushwick, Brooklyn. I did odd jobs for my parents and neighbors, and eventually a stint delivering for UPS. My mother consistently encouraged me ...

Oct. 28 marked National First Responders Day, established by Congress in 2017 to celebrate the nation’s emergency personnel, including firefighters, police officers, EMTs, paramedics and dispatchers, ...

Long hours, terrorist threats, fear of exposure to disease – all these things can wear EMS workers down. During the third week of the eight-week FDNY EMS training academy, we get a lecture on stress ...

New York City and the unions that represent FDNY EMS workers announced a tentative contract agreement Friday aimed at ending years of strife over the wages emergency medical technicians and paramedics ...

Teams made up of EMTs, mental health professionals and peers would be stationed in 100 subway stations, focusing on engaging New Yorkers experiencing homelessness or mental distress ...

The Big Apple’s largest municipal union is blasting city officials for sliding 82 firefighter trainees into EMT jobs — blowing past hiring lists and allegedly leaving certified candidates in the dust.

A 23-year-veteran paramedic and former Marine died in the line of duty yesterday after finishing a shift at the FDNY Training Academy at Randalls Island, Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker announced on ...