The FDNY is proposing to raise the price of an ambulance ride by over 50 percent. The cost of a ride, that is called through 911, would go up from $900 to nearly $1,400. There would also be an increase in charges per mile to the hospital from $15 to $20. The department says the hike is needed because of inflation, as well as a pay bump for EMS workers.
- PUB DATE: 2/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV ABC 7 New York

A bill to make it easier for New Mexico firefighters to legally use medical marijuana got off to a hot start Friday. House Bill 292 would narrow the definition of “safety-sensitive position” in the Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act, which governs the state’s medical cannabis program. As proposed, the definition would only include employees who are required to carry a firearm or operate a vehicle with a commercial driver’s license and “whose performance under the influence of drugs or alcohol would constitute an immediate or direct threat of injury or death to the person or another.
- PUB DATE: 2/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Taos News - Metered Site

VIDEO: The annual Guns ‘N Hoses event at Enterprise Center presented a huge check Wednesday from last year’s event. The event raised one million dollars for the BackStoppers this past November. “That’s two years in a row at a million dollars, and how they’ve supported us,” said Chief Ron Battelle, executive director of the BackStoppers.
- PUB DATE: 2/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVI-TV FOX 2 St. Louis

VIDEO/PHOTOS: A car crashed into a power pole and caught fire on Wednesday evening in Yakima. Police and fire officials responded to the area of 16th Ave. and Washington Ave. The car had crashed into a power pole and was catching fire. Fire officials then hosed the fire down.
- PUB DATE: 2/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS/CW+ 29 Yakima

Seattle firefighters rescued a person after they were pinned by machinery equipment at an industrial site in Ballard Thursday morning. Crews were dispatched to the site near the 5200 block of Shilshole Ave for reports of a person pinned on an elevated conveyor belt. Firefighters were able to extricate the person and they were taken to Harborview Medical Center in serious condition.
- PUB DATE: 2/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle