JERUSALEM — The sound of gunfire crackled over the phone as the teenage girl hid in the car and spoke. An Israeli tank was near the vehicle as she and her family were trying to heed Israel’s call to evacuate their home in Gaza. Something had gone horribly wrong. Everyone in the vehicle was dead, … Read more
January 1, 2024 at 3:47 p.m. EST Medic Iryna Peshykova poses for a portrait at her base in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday. (Wojciech Grzedzinski) Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave KHARKIV, Ukraine — At a medic base an hour’s drive from the Russian border, Iryna Peshykova waited for the new year to arrive … Read more
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — An inquiry that began Tuesday into New Zealand’s worst mass shooting will examine — among other issues — the response times of police and medics and whether any of the 51 people who were killed could have been saved. The coroner-led inquiry comes more than four years after a white supremacist … Read more
A Seattle man died of cardiac arrest after his 13-year-old son called 911 twice about him “barely breathing” and having a heart attack, according to his family’s lawsuit. Before the boy dialed 911 a second time, medics were already outside his father’s apartment — waiting — on Nov. 2, 2021, a complaint filed in Washington … Read more