A woman who has been held in institutions since she was arrested in 2019 on charges she repeatedly stabbed a Boston EMT as she was being taken to Mass. General has a hearing scheduled next month to determine whether she should be allowed to walk out of the residential substance-abuse program at Shattuck Hospital where she now lives. Read more.
State Police report arresting a woman they say attacked a Boston EMT supervisor responding to a call on Old Colony Avenue in South Boston yesterday - a day after another EMT was stabbed repeatedly downtown. Read more.
UPDATE: The Suffolk County DA's office reports she was ordered held without bail and to undergo a mental-health evaluation at her arraignment on single counts of assault with intent to murder and assault on a public employee and two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous chemical. Read more.
The current lowly garage. Photo by BPDA.
The BPDA has begun looking at selling the development rights to a Sullivan Square lot now used by Boston EMS - but with the proviso that anything built there include a new and two-bay ambulance garage that would let the city provide extra ambulance service in the growing neighborhood from a facility better designed to survive being in a flood plain. Read more.
The Herald reports Boston EMS added the second ambulance after wait times for an ambulance run topped eight minutes - a lot longer than city specs allow.
WFXT takes a look, includes the story of a two-year-old in seizures for nearly 20 minutes until an ambulance arrived in East Boston - which has just one BEMS ambulance serving it.
First came Boston's Finest on TNT. Now ABC gives us Boston EMS, which will premiere next month (along with Save My Life: Boston Trauma). So when does Boston Jake come out?
UPDATE: As noted in the comments, Boston firefighters did have their own series.
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