Tag: Paramedic
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Divided appeals court reverses assault conviction over insufficient guidance about paramedics’ authority
Colorado’s second-highest court reversed a defendant’s conviction last week for assaulting a paramedic, concluding that a Denver judge needed to give jurors additional information about the duties that paramedics are legally authorized to carry out. Two paramedics were attempting to take Chakib E. Ez-Zahir to a hospital against his will. After one paramedic blocked his…
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War on fentanyl: Adams County first responders taking new approach in effort to save lives
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Name a vehicle that’s red all over and read all over. Answer? Adams County Fire Engine #11. The six-wheeled, 33-foot first-responder vehicle is believed to be the first and only fire engine in the country fully wrapped with anti-fentanyl messages in English and Spanish. The…
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Child seriously injured after police chase
A child was injured after a police chase on Sunday, the Denver Police Department said. A woman was also injured, though police believed it was from a previous incident in which someone had shot at their car. The driver of the car, which was riddled with bullet holes, had approached Denver Paramedics near east 45th…
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Eagle County paramedic dies while responding to call
Eagle County Paramedics Services are mourning the loss of one of their own who died Friday. Steve Zuckerman was responding to a backcountry call in Vail at the time of his death. He was 61. The paramedics services did not say what the cause of death was. He started working part-time as a paramedic for…
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Aurora Fire adopts program to get right resources to 911 callers, increase response times
Aurora Fire Rescue will shift how resources are dispatched on 911 calls, partnering with Aurora911 and Falck Rocky Mountain to fine tune medical call responses. The program, called Right Response, will dispatch medical calls according to the incident’s acuity rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach. People call 911 for a variety of reasons, some urgent…
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On the right track: Married firefighter and train engineer work together to save stranded hiker
Kylah and Nick Breeden of Durango fell in love working on the railroad and Monday turned out to be a live-long day. The newlyweds don’t always work together, but on one of the final weeks of the summer season, Kylah, a locomotive fireman and Nick, a train engineer, were assigned to the second shift hauling…
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Passenger on Durango sightseeing train spots injured hiker, missing for two days
An alert passenger on a sightseeing train near Silverton, Colo. spotted an injured hiker on the banks of the Animas River who had been missing for two days and suffered a broken leg.
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A CareFlight helicopter navigates through the San Juan Mountains
A CareFlight helicopter sent from Montrose choppers navigates through the dangerous peaks of the San Juan Mountains south of Silverton to rescue a hiker who had been lost for two days.
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Forensic pathologist: Elijah McClain died from ketamine injection, but manner of death undetermined
An amended autopsy report released Friday for Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died in 2019 after an encounter with Aurora police, confirms a forensic pathologist’s opinion that McClain died from “complications of ketamine administration following forcible restraint.” But the new report did not change his original determination that the manner of death —…