SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — During tense, high-risk situations, SWAT officers are a familiar presence. However, within that team, another specialized unit operates alongside them. They are known as STAR ...

FARGO — Wearing the camouflage fatigues and black boots of a SWAT team member, Ted Werre walked into the building looking to help someone. Werre spotted a man who had been shot in the leg writhing in ...

While a woman was held hostage in a Bridgewater apartment behind a barricaded door nearly two years, a special team of emergency responders devised a plan to breach the door using an explosive charge ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — You wouldn't typically find a medic kicking down the door with the SWAT team. But Toledo police chief Michael Troendle says that's all in a day's work for the department's tactical ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A new law allowing specially trained medical professionals to accompany police SWAT teams and carry weapons is now in effect. The legislative approved a bill in this year’s ...

the Thomasville Police Department’s Officer Harry Bumgarner is as fit and disciplined as they come. He runs 10 miles before bedtime, hits the gym before sunrise, then pulls 12-hour patrol duty. And ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Northeastern Junior College offered a free three-day Tactical Medicine Awareness Course, Friday through Sunday, ...

Editor’s note: The last names of the SWAT medics quoted are not included in this story at the request of Enid Fire Department for safety reasons. ENID, Okla. — Enid Fire Department has begun a new ...