“Mayday, mayday, mayday!” A firefighter goes down on the fireground, is rescued and brought to a safe location. Now what? Do we have the right emergency medical training and equipment nearby to truly ...

YouTube has launched a new feature to help users quickly find actionable and easy-to-follow videos for basic first aid and emergency care from authoritative health organizations. Viewers searching for ...

When emergencies happen, every second counts - EMTs are often the first on the scene to provide lifesaving care. In this course, you’ll gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence to deliver essential ...

The FEMA Emergency Management Institute’s (EMI) Curriculum Management Branch offers the Independent Study Program (ISP). This is a distance learning program which offers training, free of charge, to ...

AFTER nearly a dozen years of clinical, academic, and administrative work in the then-young EMS System, in the early 1980s, I ventured "outside the box" of "traditional" EMS (albeit, only 10 years old ...

Preparedness is on everyone's mind these days. Aside from the daily possibility of routine medical emergencies such as heart attack or workplace injury, there is additional urgency to be ready due to ...

Twenty-nine students completed the Community Emergency Response Team Basic Course and are qualified to become members of the Maui County CERT team, which is class to graduate since the start of the ...

Calvert County, Maryland, Sheriff's Deputy Sean Hendrickson has developed a first-of-its-kind K-9 awareness and emergency care course for fire and EMS personnel, drawing on his dual experience as a ...

An emergency can happen at any time. It can be at home, on the road, or in a public place. In those moments, every second ...

When disaster strikes, you want to be ready. Emergency experts recommend having supplies to last several days on your own, since help might not arrive immediately after a major event. A well-stocked ...