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A shortage of EMTs and paramedics is threatening emergency response times.

By this time next week, Tom Parker expects to be a certified EMT. But his training came in handy earlier this week when he was playing hockey and a referee dropped to the ice. When the man collapsed at the Boston Sports Performance Center in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Parker skated into action. “I got to him. He was lying on his…

A University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate went straight to cap and gown to his job as an EMT amid the coronavirus pandemic. Suffolk in the City’s Jenna Locke explains.

As the coronavirus stretches New York City emergency rooms and paramedics to their limits, a regional EMT group has issued new guidelines almost unthinkable even days ago — if someone’s in cardiac arrest and you can’t revive them in the field, don’t bring them to the emergency room. The newly implemented order that takes effect Thursday was implemented in...

A man posing as an emergency medical technician raised suspicion over the weekend after visiting a home in Pepperell, Massachusetts, local police said in a warning to the community. Officers were called to a home at 10:45 p.m. Saturday after a resident reported that a man wearing emergency medical apparel was there to do a well-being check on someone in…

The suspect accused of stabbing two EMTs inside an ambulance will face a judge.

An EMT who was stabbed four times outside Government Center was out of surgery around 9:15 p.m. Wednesday night, Boston EMS said.

An emergency medical technician was stabbed near a courthouse in downtown Boston Wednesday afternoon, authorities said, prompting police to close the area as they investigated. The EMT was severely injured during a routine call for help, the NBC 10 Boston Investigators reported.

A man who drove into a Massachusetts pizza shop, killing two people and injuring seven others, will be sentenced on Tuesday after he was found guilty on all charges last month.

A man who drove into a Massachusetts pizza shop, killing two people and injuring seven others, faced a judge on Tuesday during an emotional sentencing after he was found guilty on all charges last month. Brad Casler, 56, was sentenced to four years in prison after he was found guilty on two counts of motor vehicle homicide and one count...

Brad Casler, the man accused of driving into a Massachusetts pizza shop, killing two people and injuring seven others, was found guilty on all charges Monday.

The man accused of driving into a Massachusetts pizza shop, killing two people and injuring seven others, was found guilty on all charges Monday. Brad Casler, 56, was charged with motor vehicle homicide for the fatal March 2016 crash at a Sweet Tomatoes restaurant in Newton, Massachusetts. Eleanor Miele, 57, and Gregory Morin, 32, were killed when Casler’s car plowed into the eatery.

First responders in Pepperell, Massachusetts saved the life of a man having a heart attack on Saturday morning, according to local authorities.