The injured Montgomery County Firefighter was the driver of the first arriving engine to the call in Bethesda around 1930 hours. The firefighter was adjusting the supply line after the crew had a dropped a supply line at the hydrant when a car lurched forward. The firefighter ended up on the hood of the vehicle and has non-life-threatening injuries....Read More
A paramedic assaulted by a patient he was trying to help has said ambulance crews face almost daily abuse. Shaun Tierney, 39, from Grimsargh, near Preston, was assaulted after being called to the Yates’s Wine Lodge, in Church Street, Preston. Mr Tierney, who has been in the ambulance service for 18 years, had helped 47-year-old...Read More
The pilot of a medical helicopter that crashed early Saturday issued a mayday alert shortly before the craft went down near the Nevada-California line, killing all three on board, investigators said. Investigators are still trying to determine why the Mountain Lifeflight helicopter crashed around 2 a.m. Saturday, about a half mile west of U.S. 395...Read More
An EMT was injured and Manchester Fire Rescue Unit 10 was damaged in a collision with a deer over the weekend. According to rescuers, the ambulance was en route to Meadowview Regional Medical Center with a patient on board, when the deer stepped into the path of the unit. The patient sustained no injuries, but...Read More
A 10-year-old boy and a man have died after the car they were in was in a crash with an ambulance, police said. Derbyshire Police said they were passengers in a Ford Escort which was in a crash with an East Midlands emergency ambulance on the A619 Baslow Road in Chesterfield at about...Read More
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) – An ambulance crew finds themselves in the middle of a hit and run crash. It happened around 3 a.m. Sunday in 2000 block of New Madrid Street in Cape Girardeau. "I couldn’t believe it. Who’d actually hit an ambulance and then take off? I didn’t see that happening," said Taylor...Read More
