Monongalia County Sheriff’s Deputies and Monongalia Emergency Medical Services responded to a scary situation involving a mother and her two children on Interstate 68 Friday morning. According to Chief Deputy […]
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Fire on Warm Hollow Road destroys home, sends one to hospital
Five volunteer fire departments worked to put out a fire that engulfed a home in Monongalia County Sunday evening and sent one person to the hospital. According to Monongalia County […]
Mon EMS preparing excess levy for November election
MORGANTOWN — When Monongalia County residents have a medical emergency, they count on Mon EMS to show up. Now Mon EMS personnel are hopeful the county’s voters will show up […]
Local EMS departments celebrate National EMS Week
National EMS Week is a time to recognize and celebrate paramedics, EMTs, and the entire EMT workforce. The week of May 16-22 was authorized as National EMS Week by President […]
Authorities search for suspect after Pleasant Street shooting
MORGANTOWN — A man was shot in the parking lot of Domino’s on Pleasant Street Thursday afternoon. He was shot in the shoulder following a dispute with another man, according […]
Hero’s Pay funds EMS COVID supplies
$20k goes toward gurney shields for 30 ambulances and 150 P100 respirators Mon EMS Executive Director Forest Weyen and John Hitchens, chief of EMS operations at Star City Fire & […]
160 doses of vaccine arrive to MCHD
130 of those were distributed to EMS Monongalia County Health Department got an early Christmas gift Tuesday — 160 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. It was a hectic day […]
Garage catches fire on Summer School Road
A two-story garage caught fire Tuesday afternoon on Summers School Road. When firefighters arrived at 1397 Summers School Road, there was “heavy fire,” according to Brookhaven Volunteer Fire Department Assistant […]
EMS director to work with VFDs on state compliance
Concerns crop up after rescinded memo issued last weekend A now rescinded memo from the West Virginia Office of Emergency Medical Services sowed a bit of chaos in the fire […]
EMS merger is a ‘work in progress’
Forest Weyen has had a busy year. Hired in October 2019 as the executive director of a newly reformed Mon EMS — a merger of Mon EMS and WVU Hospitals’ […]
