If you had a medical emergency and needed an ambulance, right now, how long would it take them to get to you? That’s the question in Aiken County, where the emergency services folks are about to double their efforts. But, in order to do that, they’re going to have to get some help from the outside. WJBF News Channel Six’s Joy Howe has the story.

A state trooper in Oklahoma is trying to explain why he pulled over an ambulance that was carrying a patient to the hospital. The traffic stop led to a scuffle with a paramedic…that was caught on video. ABC News’ Diana Alvaer has more.

A state trooper in Oklahoma is trying to explain why he pulled over an ambulance that was carrying a patient to the hospital. The traffic stop led to a scuffle with a paramedic…that was caught on video. ABC News’ Diana Alvaer has more.

One person is dead after an ambulance wreck in Lexington County today. A spokeswoman for the Joseph M. Still Burn Center says an independent ambulance service was transporting a patient from the burn center to a hospital in North Carolina when the vehicle crashed.

Police in the Bahamas have detained an island lawmaker and a paramedic in an alleged plot to extort money from actor John Travolta.

Police in the Bahamas have detained an island lawmaker and a paramedic in an alleged plot to extort money from actor John Travolta.

Saturday, Aiken County unveiled the newest, joint EMS and Public Safety substation, located on the south side of Aiken. EMS officials say they needed an ambulance on that side of town to keep up with the high call volume and to be able to get to their residents faster. But there are no ambulance calls being run out of this station, because there’s no ambulance here. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe finds out why:

Emergency crews are looking for ways to hang on to their employees, in Aiken. Aiken County EMS officials say paramedics are hard to come by…and sometimes even tougher to keep. At EMS, things are being done to try and combat this problem. At this point, they say they’re doing the best they can with what they have. But every other day, EMS leaders say they are “maxed out,“ meaning, all their ambulances are busy with other calls, and they don’t have a truck on stand-by in case another emergency happens. They need more trucks, and more people. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has the story.