AN ambulance carrying a patient collided with a car on a busy junction. The ambulance, which had just picked a patient up from Middlesbrough Bus station, collided with a green Vauxhall Astra at the traffic light junction outside the Nevisport store in Newport Road, Middlesbrough. The ambulance had been called to a “Category A” (life-threatening)...Read More
A Chicago woman has been cited for failing to yield to an ambulance after a four-vehicle crash that left three children and five adults injured Saturday morning on the South Side. Latoya Mayfield, 26, of the 1000 block of 104th Pl., was cited for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, failure to produce a...Read More
Eight people, two of them paramedics, were hurt this morning in a four-vehicle collision on the Far South Side that included the paramedics’ ambulance. All the victims were transported to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, officials said. The crash happened a little after 11 a.m. at West 103rd and South Morgan Streets in the Washington Heights neighborhood....Read More
One person was taken to the hospital by helicopter after a collision Saturday afternoon involving a nonemergency ambulance and at least one other vehicle on Highway 1 near Vandenberg Village. Authorities temporarily closed the section of Highway 1, for drivers heading from Lompoc to Vandenberg Village and beyond, so the CalSTAR helicopter could...Read More
Communication Procedures Reviewed in Mississippi Close Call Story by wapt.com JACKSON, Miss. — When the call comes in, Jackson firefighters respond. But does a standard communication procedure put firefighters in danger? That’s what the Jackson Fire Department is trying to find out through an internal review. JFD Chief Investigator Gregory Travis is taking...Read More
