DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department

After years of mechanical problems plaguing the District’s emergency response vehicles, the D.C. Council is moving to fund $65 million in fixes.

The family of a driver who died in a crash with a speeding fire truck is suing D.C.’s Fire and Emergency Medical Services department.

A ice cream truck by the National Mall was engulfed in flames at around 2:30 p.m. on Monday afternoon.

Last night, representatives of the Neighborhood Development Company (NDC) solicited ideas from the community regarding plans to redevelop a mostly two-story commercial block of Georgia Avenue along the 16th Street Heights/Brightwood Park…

Three college students visiting Washington went on a ride Tuesday that few people ever get to take: they were hoisted in harnesses up an elevator shaft at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

A D.C. firefighter was charged Tuesday with assaulting a female patient while she was on a gurney at George Washington University Hospital, according to D.C. police and court documents.

Several activists who live in the Deanwood section of the Ward 7, led by well-known political figure Dorothy Douglas, fell short last week in D.C. Superior Court in a bid to stop a fire station from being built in their immediate…

One of D.C.’s historic active firehouses is hiding in plain sight.

District emergency officials are issuing a new warning about dangerous batches of suspected K2 hitting city streets, saying medics responded to dozens of overdose reports this week.

D.C. firefighters rescued a worker who was stranded more than 100 feet in the air while working on a D.C. government telecommunications tower in Northwest Washington on Wednesday afternoon.

A worker who was stuck about 120 feet up a radio tower in Northwest D.C. is back on the ground after first responders rescued him Wednesday.

The D.C. residents who live close to the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue in Northeast want affordable housing in their neighborhood — not a fire station — and they recently went to court to make that…

When a 911 call comes in from DC, depending on where the person is calling from, they may or may not get an ambulance responding. It’s part of a new program routing ambulances to the most dire emergencies.

Under a change taking effect Friday, D.C. residents who call 911 no longer will be guaranteed an ambulance ride to hospitals if responding medics and a nurse determine their ailments are minor, D.C. Fire and EMS Department officials said. …