While responding to a victim of an interstate rollover, a medical helicopter clipped a street sign with its rotor while landing. A University of Utah AirMed helicopter was on its way to pick up a single-car rollover victim at about 12:30 p.m. Monday when its rotor hit a road sign and landed hard. The pilot...Read More
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A pensioner died after being hit by a paramedic vehicle responding to an emergency, police said today. The accident happened around 4.55pm yesterday in Ayr when the 70-year-old man was hit by a Ford Focus Paramedic Response Unit. Strathclyde Police named him as Robert Cunningham from the Ayrshire town. He was crossing Prestwick Road when...Read More
Josh Pringle Four Ottawa paramedics were injured while responding to motor vehicle collisions during the freezing rain late last night. Ottawa Police and the OPP reported "several" crashes on the Queensway and Ottawa streets last night as the first system of freezing rain moved across the National Capital Region. Ottawa Paramedics say in two...Read More
By Condace Pressley (WSB Radio) — Authorities have identified a woman killed in a crash with a Henry County ambulance Friday. Police say Tammy Ward, 36, was killed when the Monte Carlo her husband was driving turned in front of an ambulance on Highway 1941 in Hampton. Ward’s husband remains hospitalized in critical, but...Read More
Thanks to www.FireCritic.com for this story Firefighter Don Nagel was injured on the way to a fire caused by a natural gas line break. Pantagraph.com: …Chenoa firefighter Don Nagel, 47, was taken to OSF Saint James Hospital in Pontiac, after a Chenoa fire engine crashed on the way to the scene around 4:55 a.m., Illinois...Read More