Pittsburgh EMS Assistant Chief Mark Pinchalk announced Friday that two city rescue units are now stocked with Type O blood. Pittsburgh’s Bureau of Emergency Medical Services is writing the script for ...

PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh EMS vehicle collided with a passenger vehicle on East Carson Street Saturday night. Pittsburgh Public Safety Department officials say the crash happened around 11:30 p.m. in ...

The union representing Pittsburgh Emergency Medical Services personnel on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging the residency requirement now in place for paramedics and EMTs. City officials have said ...

Chief Investigator Rick Earle learned the city has fired another employee. A division chief has now been let go for allegedly failing to monitor overtime cards. That division chief had been with the ...

Pittsburgh public safety and budget leaders talk to City Councilors about the state of the public safety fleet on May 6, 2025. Pittsburgh’s fire and emergency medical services vehicle fleets are in ...

PITTSBURGH — “They practice, and practice, and practice… and that practice paid off,” Pittsburgh EMS Chief Amera Gilchrist told Channel 11. Channel 11 got an exclusive at the practice EMS Chief Amera ...

Councilmember Anthony Coghill, chair of public safety for Pittsburgh, expressed frustration over the firing of two EMS administrators due to fraudulent time cards, as the city faces financial ...

The Pittsburgh EMS training division is a permanent child passenger safety seat-fitting station. Certain members of the community outreach and public education team have completed training designed to ...

The chiefs in charge of Pittsburgh's public safety bureaus say they are worried that many of the city's emergency vehicles might not make it. On Tuesday, they testified about the dire condition of ...

There were “no major safety or security incidents” during a busy May weekend in Pittsburgh, which included the Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon, three Pittsburgh Pirates games, and Cinco de ...