first responders

The race returned after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19 precautions, with runners given the option of running either a 5-mile route or a half marathon.

Thousands of runners took off Sunday morning in Boston’s Run to Remember, a Memorial Day weekend tradition that honors fallen first responders. The race returned to the city’s Seaport district after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19 precautions, with runners given the option of running either a 5-mile route or a half marathon. The race started with speakers reading...

The community chipped in to cover 60 meals.

The city of Boston is appealing a Massachusetts Appeals Court judge’s decision to block the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees, which comes in response to a lawsuit brought by unions representing first responders. Mayor Michelle Wu’s mandate, announced in December, requires the city’s 20,000 employees to be vaccinated and was originally set to take effect on Jan. 15,...

A nationwide shortage of EMS workers is having a trickledown effect on ambulance response times during medical emergencies, according to figures reviewed by the NBC10 Investigators

A proposed program seeks to fund locally designed alternative emergency response programs that would dispatch behavioral and mental health professionals to non-violent calls.

The employees reached the injured man before emergency services and were able to turn a vest into a tourniquet to slow down the man’s bleeding.

Three DPW workers in Lewiston, Maine spotted a man walking down the street holding his own severed arm. They rushed to help.

“It was just absolute chaos. For all of us on the FDNY.” Retired New York firefighter Chris Walsh recalls what he felt on Sept. 11, 2001. “We lost 343 firefighters that day and we all wanted to go do something to help.” Walsh is just one of the many firefighters who was working on 9/11. The events of that day…

Dr. Audrey Sue Cruz is a Las Vegas physician, wellness advocate, lifestyle blogger and now a Barbie doll. Toy company Mattel chose her as a role model for one of six new Barbies honoring women the company identified as heroes of the coronavirus pandemic.

The medal is the highest honor Congress can bestow.

Nearly 300 people received coronavirus vaccines at a clinic reserved for first responders in the Massachusetts State Police Headquarters in Framingham.

Nearly 300 members of the public received coronavirus vaccines at a clinic reserved for first responders in the Massachusetts State Police Headquarters in Framingham, state officials confirmed. The Boston Globe first reported that 292 civilians who received the shots over a period of three days in January and February were eligible. Qualified recipients at that time included people over the…

A free program called Caring Connections invites first responders to spend an uninterrupted hour with the horses at UpReach Therapeutic Equestrian Center in Goffstown. “I hope that they leave here with a sense of peace and relaxation and remember what that feels like,” program director Karen McGraw said. It’s a priceless gift these horses are giving to those on...

In New Hampshire, people on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are being given the chance to unwind with therapy horses.

Now that Massachusetts has expanded vaccine eligibility to residents 65 or older, many are looking ahead to the next groups to be included – and those who some believe should have been prioritized sooner. Trish Bourassa, a flight attendant from Sturbridge, says she was turned away from trying to get a vaccine at a local hospital, which told her flight…

As the state’s vaccine rollout continues, local flight attendant Trish Bourassa is concerned she and her coworkers are being overlook. This comes after she was turned away from being vaccinated.

The site plans to begin with 300 vaccinations a day and build up to 5,000 vaccinations a day as more people become eligible.

Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts, opened Friday to first responders in a soft launch of the state’s first mass vaccination site.

The doors of Gillette Stadium open Friday to first responders in a soft launch of the state’s first mass vaccination site.