ROXBURY (CBS) - The obesity problem in America has been creating some unique challenges for emergency workers, as some patients they are trying to save are too large for the emergency equipment.

PINCKNEYVILLE, IL (KFVS) - Pinckneyville's ambulance service just got some high-tech hydraulic upgrades that will help keep their EMTs, paramedics and patients safer. They're called power stretchers ...

GUILDERLAND — Senior Paramedic Supervisor Jay Tyler remembers vividly a 911 call years ago before he came to Guilderland. An 800-pound woman fell on her back, couldn't get up and was suffocating. Her ...

The Fire Department has been awarded a $50,000 grant through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant program. Fire Chief Patrick Sullivan said the department will buy protective equipment, including ...

EASTON — The Talbot Paramedics Foundation donated a matching grant of $7,619 to assist the Easton Volunteer Fire Department in the purchase of a Stryker power ambulance stretcher earlier this year.

A grant of $25,000 has been awarded by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving to Suffield Volunteer Ambulance Association. This grant has been used toward the purchase of a Ferno INX Inline ...

The Village of Nissequogue Fire Department is buying a $47,000 powered stretcher and ambulance load system, in part because people are getting too heavy for emergency personnel to safely lift, said ...