By Jeff Rivenbark CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) – Police say a paramedic was injured while trying to treat an injured person outside a club in south Charlotte early Sunday morning. The incident happened around 2:26 p.m. in the parking lot outside Club Onyx located along the 5300 block of Old Pineville. According to the police report,...Read More
By M.W. Somaratne and Mahesh Kirthiratne Two persons, including a sick child, died on the spot and 12 others were injured in a head on collision between an ambulance and a CTB bus at the Walliwela bend on the Matale- Dambulla main road yesterday afternoon. The ambulance was transporting several patients including a 12-year-old boy...Read More
Inquest was told the medic didn’t want to go in the pub because it ‘had a bad reputation’ By Ellen Branagh Press Association DERBY, England — A paramedic refused to go into a pub to treat a woman because she was frightened, then later said she could not treat her on her own, an inquest...Read More
Inquest was told the medic didn’t want to go in the pub because it ‘had a bad reputation’ By Ellen Branagh Press Association DERBY, England — A paramedic refused to go into a pub to treat a woman because she was frightened, then later said she could not treat her on her own, an inquest...Read More
Responder was taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries By EMS1 Staff FORT WORTH, Texas — A medic treating a driver injured in a wreck on a Texas freeway was hit by a truck on Wednesday. Two MedStar paramedics were responding to a minor accident caused by a patch of ice when a pickup...Read More
ESCAMBRIA COUNTY, Fla. — A Florida paramedic who claimed he’d been shot at an EMS staging post has admitted the wound was self-inflicted. Brandon Richie, of Escambia County, told police Wednesday that he made up the story, according to NorthEscambia.com. It follows an incident on Jan. 28 when officers were dispatched to a report that...Read More
