(TNS) - When Kip Ladage found his cancer-stricken mother near death in January, the local ambulance service found itself short staffed. Family members phoned 911, but Tripoli medics weren’t available, ...

“Where you live should not determine if you live, if a medical emergency arises." That’s what an eastern Iowa family and EMS leaders want to tell people across the state. They’re teaming up, trying to ...

BREMER COUNTY, Iowa (KWWL) -- After many years of Emergency Medical Service ('EMS') providers and organizations fighting to deem EMS as an 'essential service', Governor Reynolds signed the Rural EMS ...

Two northeast Iowa men are raising awareness about a critical shortage of emergency medical technicians in rural areas of the state and calling for changes in law so ambulance service is deemed ...

LINN COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG) - “It’s spring I guess, you know, people gotta burn,” Kip Ladage, coordinator for the Bremer County Emergency Management, said. It’s something Ladage is all too familiar with ...

TRIPOLI — When wildlife photographer Kip Ladage gets onto the water to capture images of nature, he stays low and quiet in his kayak, covered in camouflaged netting. “I can get pretty close,” he said.

WAVERLY – When Kip Ladage found his cancer-stricken mother near death in January, the local ambulance service found itself short staffed. Family members phoned 911, but Tripoli medics weren’t ...