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A Loudoun County, Virginia, volunteer paramedic is back on the job after recovering from COVID-19. Lt. Sam Neglia contracted the coronavirus from a patient while on the job in June. He isolated himself at home until he realized he needed hospital care and was put on a ventilator. Neglia was sedated for 11 days. During that time his family made…

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on a volunteer paramedic from Loudoun County who is back on the job after nearly dying after being infected with COVID-19 on the job.

Years of persistence earned Carmen Hackett a spot at the Tenleytown fire station, fulfilling her dream of fighting fires on the front lines. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

A paramedic says a man jumped him and stole his wallet as he was taking a patient into the emergency room at George Washington University Hospital.

A paramedic spoke to News4’s Pat Collins about the moment he says a man jumped him and robbed him at George Washington University Hospital in DC.

A paramedic was pushing a patient into the emergency room at George Washington Hospital, when a man shoved him from behind and stole his wallet, according to court documents. The suspect later laid down on a stretcher like a patient, the documents said. News4’s Pat Collins reports the suspect told police he smoked a joint that was dipped in...

John Corcoran died of an alleged heart attack in April while vacationing in the Dominican Republic where three other American tourists have recently died.

Charlie Winter is a devoted dad who would do anything for his kids. He’d throw himself in front a train — and even a shark. That’s exactly what the North Carolina dad did Sunday when his 17-year-old daughter, Paige, was attacked by a shark in Atlantic Beach at Fort Macon State Park. The heroic dad punched the shark five times...

Two strangers were at Rock Creek Park on Sunday for the same thing: a snowy photo. News4’s Erika Gonzalez explains how one of their photos is what led to a life-saving moment.

Amidst the winter storm that dumped nearly a foot of snow in the D.C. area, Dave Dildine ventured out to Rock Creek Park on Sunday to capture what he hoped would be the perfect photo.

In his 20 years as a paramedic, Mickey Huber assisted in two emergency deliveries. But to him, the most memorable birth is the one that didn’t happen on his watch. Huber was helping people evacuate from the terrifying wildfire that tore through the Northern California town of Paradise on Nov. 8 when he heard on the scanner about a pregnant...

Marking a major achievement for Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, about 400,000 low-income Virginia adults can enroll in Medicaid as of Thursday.

A Pompano Beach firefighter found herself dealing with a different kind of emergency when she found a puppy abandoned in a crate at her station.

The Israeli military struck Hamas militant sites in Gaza early Sunday in response to the resumption of rocket fire toward Israel, which threatened to unravel an informal cease-fire that had held since a flare-up of violence last week. The military said it hit 15 Hamas targets, including military compounds, munition factories and naval forces. The strikes come after militants broke...

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey spent time with a young Manassas woman who believes medicaid expansion will help put her life back on track after the amputation of her right arm.

A D.C. dog who is helping detectives sniff out clues was once nearly euthanized because of a genetic defect.

A sea lion reportedly bit a female swimmer at San Francisco’s Aquatic Park Thursday morning, marking at least the fourth such attack to occur in the area over the past month, according to fire officials.

An FDNY paramedic is being called a hero after he saved a man from the freezing Hudson River.

A New Jersey man who went into cardiac arrest five times in a D.C. ambulance last April reunited Wednesday with the firefighters and paramedics who saved his life.

Nearly 2,000 people who called 911 at least four times within 30 days are part of a program Montgomery County is offering to help 911 “super users.” “Those 12,000 to 13,000 calls equate to at least an ambulance, maybe a paramedic, maybe a fire engine,” master firefighter paramedic Ian St. John said. News4’s Kristin Wright spoke with a woman being helped by the program.