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How First Responders Saved Ohio Man Stung Thousands of Times by Bees

Austin Bellamy has awakened from a medically induced coma.

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Why Tampons Don’t Work for Treating Bleeding Wounds

How the hell is this a topic in 2022? Myths about tampons — used for centuries to passively absorb a...

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Doc’s Corner: How to Set Up Your IFAK for EDC

When building an individual first-aid kit, or IFAK, I outfit my aid bag using the MARCH acronym: Massive hemorrhage, Airway, Respiration, Circulation, and Hypothermia/Head injury. M: Two tourniquets.

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Hot-Zone Heroes: South Carolina First Responders Prep To Save Mass Shooting Victims

With the eyes of law enforcement focused on the May mass shootings that killed 10 shoppers at a Buff...

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Doc’s Corner: How Do You Pack a Wound?

Hemorrhaging is the leading cause of potentially survivable death. Stop the Bleed programs and Tacti...

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Paramedic Charged With Drugging, Sexually Assaulting Minors After Task Force Raid

Court documents uncovered by Coffee or Die Magazine shed more light on the Jan. 18 arrest of Todd A.

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Coast Guard Rescuers Rush to Remote Alaska Plane Crash

When the Yakutat cops arrived at the Alaska crash site, they saw where the plane had sheared off the...

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Special Operators’ Mapping System Coming to Emergency Responders Nationwide

On Thursday, March 19, during Arizona’s annual Ostrich Festival, emergency responders in Chandler ne...

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Army Chinooks, Air Force PJs, Park Rangers Rescue Stranded Hikers on Mount Rainier

He was trapped in an ice crevasse knifed into the side of Mount Rainier, his arm and leg busted, his...

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Barefoot in a Wet T-Shirt and Shorts: Inside the Munra Point Rescue

When the 51-year-old hiker woke up the morning of Monday, May 2, he was lost on a scramble trail to ...

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Holding the Line: America’s Best Technical Rescue Team Is in Small-Town Idaho

[dropcap]A[/dropcap] base jumper climbs onto a handrail and looks around. Almost 500 feet below is t...

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Emergency Management Director Stole and Sold COVID-19 Masks

The emergency management director of one of Pennsylvania’s largest universities stole thousands of medical masks at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and sold them on eBay. Christopher D.

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Twin Falls Rescuers Race To Save Fallen Idaho Ice Climber

Idaho paramedic Chad Smith arrived at his Twin Falls home after a 36-hour shift. It was just before 6 p.

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Lost on the Grand Mesa: Inside the Daring Drive To Find Skier and Dog

When emergency dispatchers radioed deputies patrolling Colorado’s Mesa and Delta counties on Feb. 1,...

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How a Doctor and Paramedic Saved Each Other’s Life 30 Years Apart

When Chris Trokey was born in 1986, he weighed just 3.2 pounds.

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