Detroit ambulance stolen, tracked down as police search for suspects
Police were able to track the EMS rig as it fled.
City of Detroit demands up to $42,000 to produce public EMS records
Our request for three months of records, the city maintained, would disable emergency communications and take more than a year to fulfill.
Detroit violates law by failing to turn over records on ambulance runs
Detroit medics are taking too long to respond to emergencies, and people are dying.
Audio: Detroit firefighters, medics save man during remarkable rescue
The victim was lifeless when firefighters removed him from a collapsed garage.
Bed bugs found in Detroit ambulance
Bed buds were reported on DDOT buses a few weeks ago. In Warren, a library was closed after an infestation. And now the blood-sucking insects were found on a Detroit ambulance.
Child dies after paramedics too slow to Detroit accident scene
After waiting 17 minutes for an ambulance that never showed up, firefighters placed the seizing boy in a fire truck and rushed to Children’s Hospital.
Firefighters rushed critically injured man to hospital after EMS took too long
What’s worse, EMS continued to give the wrong ETA as firefighters tried to resuscitate the victim.
Baby saved from womb of fatally shot mom in Detroit
The triple shooting doesn’t stop doctors from saving a 9-month-old baby from her deceased mom.
Police, ambulances unable to respond to weekend emergencies
The public will never learn about most failures to respond.