Edmonton firefighters switch focus to combating opioid crisis in 2017

While fire calls were down in 2017, Edmonton Fire Rescue Services worked to save lives from new emerging threats.
“The opioid epidemic certainly caught a lot of news this year, and fire rescue trained all of our operational firefighters in the delivery of naloxone,” Edmonton fire Chief Ken Block said in a recent interview. “We’ve responded and administered naloxone 95 times since.”
Opioid epidemic
In the first nine months of 2017, 482 fatal drug overdoses related to