First Responders

In 2017, a Winnipeg postal worker stumbled upon an unconscious woman in an apartment vestibule, called 911 and suddenly had a difficult decision to make. The 911 operator was encouraging him to perform CPR, but the postal worker suspected the woman was overdosing on fentanyl. Rather...

CLOSE From the California Department of Public Health and its Opioid Overdose Surveillance Dashboard, here are some numbers on the state's opioid problem. Steve ByerlyMethamphetamine and fentanyl-laced heroin were found Friday while arresting a suspected Ventura drug dealer, authorities...

Hazmat being called to more police calls over fentanyl exposure Updated: 5:53 PM EST Mar 8, 2019 Hide Transcript Show Transcript RESPONDERS. MARY: POTENTIAL EXPOSURE HAS BECOMES A BIG PROBLEM IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. AND, A THIRD -- IN FACT, A THIRD OF ALL STATE HAZMAT CALLS...

More than a dozen narcotics dealers, including a former NYPD cop, were busted Thursday after authorities launched an investigation into an Upper East Side man’s overdose death. “The conspiracy stretched from the South Bronx to the Upper East Side and involved widespread distribution of narcotics at...

A Massachusetts State Police Department Trooper was taken to a hospital following a fentanyl exposure scare in Norwell.At about 1:40 a.m. Friday, a trooper from the department's Norwell Barracks had a woman under arrest for possession of a class A drug and took her to...