First responder attrition, a cost we can’t bear Staten Island: Re “FDNY merger was uneasy at first” (March 16): When NYC’s Emergency Medical Services were moved into the FDNY, the Rudy Giuliani ...

Lillian Bonsignore draws on her 30-plus-year EMS career to spotlight the financial realities facing first responders ...

Staten Island’s response times have declined over the past decade as rising call volume and staffing shortages slow advanced ...

FDNY EMS Local 2507, which represents more than 4,000 emergency medical technicians, paramedics and fire inspectors in New York City, launched a new public awareness campaign on social media Oct. 6 ...

Newly minted Fire Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore made a fiery pitch for EMS pay parity during a “State of the FDNY” breakfast, claiming it was time EMS is embraced “as an equal in the Fire Department ...

Bonsignore, a 31-year veteran with the FDNY, served as EMS chief from 2019 to 2022. In her time as an EMS technician, Bonsignore was a first-responer to the Sept. 11 ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed legislation — inspired by the vicious deadly stabbing of EMS Lt. Alison Russo in 2022 — that would require two qualified medical first responders be dispatched to 911 ...

Manhattan paramedics are warning New Yorkers they may soon have to wait longer for an ambulance to arrive after an Upper East Side hospital made cuts to its fleet. About a dozen paramedics at ...