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Mecklenburg County Commissioners held a meeting Wednesday with the leaders of the county's towns and municipalities to look for a solution for a contract impasse between medic and first responders.

Staff shortages have continued to grow in Mecklenburg County's EMS agency, and the agency will lose more help when FEMA withdraws the extra ambulances it sent in January to help Medic through the Omicron surge.

Medic, Mecklenburg County's EMS agency, says staffing shortages and increased demand during the latest COVID-19 surge are straining resources. The agency is making some temporary changes to cope, including increasing wait times for some non-emergency situations.

Medic, Mecklenburg County's emergency medical services agency, recently shifted how it answers some Charlotte 911 calls because of staff shortages and other problems at the agency. But some firefighters are worried that the new policy is bad for their department—and, ultimately, for the public.

Nine North Carolina counties are benefiting from 25 ambulances and their crews provided by the federal government to help locals struggling to respond to the spikes in calls during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medic, the agency that provides emergency medical services in Mecklenburg County, says its staff are stretched thin as they transport a growing number of COVID-19 patients to the region’s hospitals.

For the first three full months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mecklenburg County paramedics responding to 911 calls found an unusually high number of dead…

Children are among the 15 injured in a crash that involved a school bus in rush hour traffic Wednesday morning on East Independence near Hawthorne…

Emergency calls to Mecklenburg County's ambulance service have grown about twice as fast as the population since 2010. MEDIC Director Joe Penner told…