An animal control officer in training scaled the SFFD's ladder to reach the bird, an action that was met with applause from the crowd of spectators gathered below. The heron was taken to a vet to ...

One heron has some new heroes after being rescued when it became tangled in a fishing line Saturday afternoon. Jack Flaherty won’t return to the Dodgers after winning the World Series, signs $ ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Southern California fire survivor is in the Bay Area with a mission. Eugene Kwok thanked the San Francisco firefighters who saved his home and those of his neighbors. Kwok ...

Vallejo police investigate 2nd homicide of 2025 SFFD confirmed a woman has been rescued and is being taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while efforts continue to locate ...

As part of the pilot program, MDA emergency vehicles such as ambulances will be given priority in passing through intersections using a smart system based on GPS tracking and connected traffic lights.

I got a quick ride in an ambulance from my house in Cap Hill to St. Joe’s,” Herndon said. “I got a bill for that ambulance ride for $1,500 for that ambulance ride. And I went through my ...

Ambulances were still being told to avoid one of New Jersey's largest hospitals Friday morning more than 24 hours after a water main break began to disrupt services. Non-emergency surgeries and ...

Paramedics are urging drivers to maintain awareness on the roads and around emergency sirens to ensure ambulances are not delayed. The most important thing drivers can do is to slow down and react ...

There’s no backup in the roughly 900-square-mile area that Wendover Ambulance covers on the border of Utah and Nevada. So the EMTs who respond in crisis have to rely “on what they know and ...

Ambulance services should be left to those who know the daily difficulties in real cases and not imaginary numbers, the association of private ambulances said on Monday and called for an end to ...

"It can't stand unchallenged, in my view." Few ambulances are equipped to do blood transfusions even though it could save thousands of lives, according to reporting in KFF Health News. Take for ...

(KRON) — The San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD) said two swimmers in distress were rescued with the help of the department’s rescue boats in the San Francisco Bay on Saturday evening.