On Thursday, March 19, during Arizona’s annual Ostrich Festival, emergency responders in Chandler needed to quickly reach and retrieve an unresponsive patient within a crowd of tens of thousands of people inside Tumbleweed Park. But Chandler ...
He was trapped in an ice crevasse knifed into the side of Mount Rainier, his arm and leg busted, his buddy nearly eight stories above him getting whipped by winds blasting the snowy ridge at 50 knots. But he had excellent cell phone service. And ...
When the 51-year-old hiker woke up the morning of Monday, May 2, he was lost on a scramble trail to Oregon’s Munra Point, more than 1,000 feet above the Columbia River Gorge, barefoot, wearing only a wet T-shirt and shorts, with a dead cell ...
A base jumper climbs onto a handrail and looks around. Almost 500 feet below is the Snake River, met on both sides by massive sheer cliffs that are stained dark brown by volcanic basalt rock. Behind the man, four lanes of highway ...
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. Casamento, 42, the ex-emergency management director for ...
Idaho paramedic Chad Smith arrived at his Twin Falls home after a 36-hour shift. It was just before 6 p.m. on Jan. 28, and Smith needed some rest. Then, his cell phone vibrated. The alert urged rescue units to save an ice climber who’d fallen ...
When emergency dispatchers radioed deputies patrolling Colorado’s Mesa and Delta counties on Feb. 1, all they knew was that a 61-year-old skier and “Poppy,” her cousin’s 40-pound short-haired mutt, were lost on the Grand Mesa. Sunset was coming ...
When Chris Trokey was born in 1986, he weighed just 3.2 pounds. Doctors at his Southern California hospital gave him a 50-50 chance of long-term survival. For one of those doctors, that just wasn’t good enough. The pediatrician who worked through the ...
