7/8/09

Legal
Lawmakers Closing Hiring Loophole As Paramedics Accused of Molestation - Texas
Discharged city employees want their jobs back - Ohio

America
Catoosa approves tax for businesses, improvements to fire and EMS - Georgia
Situation worsens; Lehigh Acres fire plan in works - Florida
Group seeks non-emergency ambulance service - North Carolina
City targets Riverdale for ambulance cuts - New York
Ambulance head suggests tax support - Colorado
Fort Bend County EMS Workers Will Start Earning Accrued Holiday Pay - Texas
City Fire Company Shuts Down - Maryland

Military
218th Ambulance Co. holds reunion - Arkansas
New helicopters arrive for air ambulance detachment - Alabama

ER /Hospital
City of Palisades Park Awards EMS Contract to Englewood Hospital - New Jersey
47,000 Older Adults Treated in Emergency Departments Annually for Fall Injuries Related to Walkers and Canes
Champion ambulance owned by two hospitals - Texas
WCH Could Be Base For Air Evac - West Virginia
Three St. Paul Fire Department employees disciplined in racial incident - Minnesota

Canada
NAPE and Eastern Health at odds over ambulances - Canada

Awards-Honors
Lee EMS makes it to prestigious competition finals in Orlando - Florida

Criminal
Medic One Maintenance Worker Fired for Possible Fraudulent Scheme - Washington
EMS Lt. Charged in Drunk Driving Crash - Michigan
Woman Sentenced For Stealing Ambulance - Hawaii
EMT is jailed for sex abuse - Kentucky
County EMT charged with breaking and entering - North Carolina

Obits/Services
Dean F. Blandin - New York
Army Spc. Chris M. Talbert - Illinois
Britt Compton - Tennessee