The Danger of Responding First: Assaults against first responders and frontline workers soaring

DAR honors local first responders | Clear Lake Mirror Reporter

DAR members Tammy Orte and Jane Held presenting hero baskets to Lt. Bossard and Officer Lind at the Clear Lake Police Department DAR members Tammy Orte and Jane Held presenting hero baskets to Lt. Bossard and Officer Lind at the Clear Lake Police Department   The Mason City chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution gathered to prepare grab-and-go snack baskets.  DAR members delivered the “hero” baskets to the police, fire, and EMS…

The Danger of Responding First: Assaults against first responders and frontline workers soaring

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Kansas City firefighter-paramedic Graham Hoffman was on the job when a patient, his patient, stabbed and killed him, according to investigators. When he died, it seemed as though the whole city went into mourning. Two months later, another medic came under attack, bitten on his stomach in the back of an ambulance. More recently, according to a probable cause affidavit from a Kansas City detective, on July 6,  a man off his med…

KC First Responders Confront Attacks Including Spiter Shouting: 'I Have AIDS!!!'

A slice of life from a treacherous career track that puts HEROES in the line of danger in both the urban core and the suburbs . . . Here's the word:  Read more at tonyskansascity.com