EMS

The state collects information from EMS agencies across Connecticut. NBC Connecticut Investigates took a look into annual reports from 2018 and 2020. The average response time for emergency calls has gone up, way up, according to the state’s own report.

When the weight of seconds hangs the heaviest, it’s prayer that New Britain EMS paramedic Maria Desimone relies on while responding to medical emergencies. “It’s all these different thoughts and considerations that come into your head. Just help me to be strong and be confident in my decisions,” Desimone said. There is an even heavier weight emergency medical services...

The pandemic-induced shortage of emergency medical technicians and paramedics nationwide is so dire that ambulance service providers warn of sharp cuts to services and longer waits for 911 calls — even when it’s a matter of life or death.

A broader group of first responders and frontline workers may soon be able to get workers’ compensation coverage for post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

A manhunt is underway for a former sheriff’s deputy wanted in the fatal shooting of three people in Austin, Texas.

A man who state police believe is responsible for targeting multiple Connecticut EMS agencies with Molotov cocktails on Saturday night has been arrested and remains in custody in Pennsylvania on Sunday.

A man who state police believe is responsible for targeting multiple Connecticut EMS agencies with Molotov cocktails on Saturday night has been arrested and remains in custody in Pennsylvania on Sunday.

Officials have arrested the man they believe is responsible for targeting at least four Connecticut EMS agencies with Molotov cocktails Saturday night.

For the first time in the city’s history, Mayor de Blasio announced Tuesday that the new mental health professionals and crisis workers will be the dispatched through 911, instead of the NYPD, to respond to mental health emergencies in two high-need communities — calling the pilot program a “major innovation.”

Even though they’re still doing their jobs out in the public, our first responders have dealt with changes big and small to their daily routines because of coronavirus. The doors are usually open to the public at East Hartford firehouses. Coronavirus has forced the department to put restrictions in place. “Regrettably we have to close the firehouses to visitors. ...

For first responders on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis, staying healthy is important.

Three people were taken to the hospital after a crash in Vernon on Sunday night.

Sarah Nicole Henderson, the East Texas woman accused of fatally shooting her two daughters in November 2017, struck a plea deal Wednesday where she’ll avoid the death penalty and spend life behind bars.

Police have released chilling new video of suspect staking out the man he would ultimately stab more than 20 times outside his Queens home, killing him, last summer.

A 2-year-old Shelton boy who was found unresponsive in a swimming pool on Copper Penny Lane in Shelton Monday morning has died, according to police.

A man is in the hospital on Monday afternoon after falling off of a bridge into a river in Vernon.

A woman is accused of leaving a 3-month-old child in a hot vehicle Monday afternoon in Vernon.

A pilot is alive thanks in part to a group of rafters who raced into action when his plane crashed into the Colorado River on Tuesday.