DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department

Starting Friday, D.C. Fire and EMS ambulances won’t transport all patients that contact 911 to a hospital emergency room. In some cases, emergency responders will help assess patients on-site, but refer them to a clinic if the issue is…

The goal is to improve health outcomes, shorten wait times in hospitals, and make sure first responders are available for serious and life-threatening emergencies.

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — Under a new policy starting on March 1, DC ambulance crews might not take some patients to a hospital but will refer them to a clinic.

WASHINGTON — D.C. is getting more emergency calls than ever before, but the city has no backup ladder fire trucks if one goes out of service, the city’s fire chief said.

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - People who live in the area near the former site of Walter Reed National Medical Center in Northwest Washington are concerned about their health due to an overwhelming odor.

It’s likely that someone who didn’t belong inside a public housing complex for D.C. seniors started the massive blaze that destroyed it, federal investigators found, but because of factors that include bungled building security, they might…

A 32-year-old man who was killed last year in a crash involving a D.C. fire engine responding to a call in Northeast Washington failed to yield to the emergency vehicle, according to a report released Friday.

Young cadets Queen Anunay and Kishia Clemencia stood out in their class at the D.C. fire academy as being among the few women in a male-dominated field. Of the department’s 1,550 members at the time, 35 were women.

WASHINGTON — The D.C. Fire Department has released video footage of the man they said started a fire inside Comet Ping-Pong last week.

Federal investigators criticized D.C.'s fire chief for denying access to a senior citizen apartment complex after a devastating fire ripped through the building near Navy Yard in Southeast in September.

WASHINGTON — Its predecessor was burned to the ground by the British, and as WTOP told you around Halloween, it may contain a ghost.

Robert Holman was dutifully rotating through surgical training at Georgetown University on a path to follow his father when the medical passion that would drive his career crystallized in his mind.

A D.C. firefighter faces armed robbery and other charges after police say he held up a person at gunpoint in Silver Spring during a dispute over $700 sneakers he was trying to buy, according to Montgomery County authorities.

WASHINGTON — What’s known as “bystander CPR” saves lives, and city leaders in D.C. want as many people as possible to learn how to perform hands-only CPR and gain automated external defibrillator (AED) awareness.

As the D.C. Council prepares for oversight hearings next year, one key issue will be the D.C. Fire and EMS Department’s fleet of emergency vehicles, which The Washington Times has reported is depleted and in need of repair.

Two D.C. Council members are inquiring about the fire department’s apparatus, as fire and city officials push back against a report in The Washington Times citing senior department sources who said a lack of reserve vehicles contributed to…

A 96-year-old woman died on Tuesday night after a fire overtook the first floor of her two-story row house in Shaw. The next day, Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie sent a letter to D.C.’s fire chief asking questions about the…

While the eyes of much of the world were trained on the throngs of D.C. visitors paying their respects to George H.W. Bush, Annie Maiden was in her Northwest home.

A 96-year-old woman died after a fire consumed her house in Shaw late Tuesday as her neighborhood’s assigned firetruck was covering Southeast amid a shortage of reserve emergency vehicles.

D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Doug Buchanan said that a city-wide radio announcement went out Friday afternoon saying that Providence would continue accepting the city's ambulances.