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March 4, 2011

UVa ER Patient Arrested After Allegedly Stealing Ambulance – Virginia

By Ruth Showalter A University of Virginia Medical Center ER patient was arrested on Interstate 64 early Friday morning after allegedly stealing an ambulance. UVa Public Information Officer Melissa Fielding says 26-year-old Jay Tilden Gatliff, a resident of Woodstock, walked out of the hospital just before 5am and climbed into a Greene County Rescue Squad...
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EMT collapses while trying to resuscitate man – Missouri

By Elizabethe Hoffman ST. LOUIS • A Northeast fire district emergency medical technician remained in critical condition Friday morning after collapsing the night before while trying to resuscitate a man who had stopped breathing at a Northwoods shopping center. The man, whose identity could not be confirmed, died. Scherese Bishop, 37, was one of four...
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School Bus Collides With Ambulance On Queens Boulevard – New York

By Matthew Hampton A school bus collided with an ambulance at the intersection of Queens Boulevard and Continental Avenue in Forest Hills Thursday afternoon. The bus, which had only a handful of school children on board, broadsided the ambulance, which was empty, at around 3:30 p.m. Thursday. None of the six children and one adult...
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EMT wounded by gunman gets out of NY hospital

Associated Press EAST MEADOW, N.Y. — A Long Island emergency medical technician was released from a hospital two days after he was wounded at a crash scene by a heavily armed gunman who was later fatally shot by police, and he vowed to return to service as soon as possible. "I love what I do,"...
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Ambulance Involved In Nashville Crash – Tennessee

5 Taken To Hospital After Accident NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Five people were taken to a hospital Thursday after an accident on Hobson Pike and Walker Road. It wasn’t immediately known how the crash happened, but at least one vehicle and an ambulance were involved. One person was inside the ambulance. That person and two paramedics...
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EMT HAS HEART ATTACK DURING CPR

A Northeast fire district emergency medical technician remained in critical condition Friday morning after collapsing the night before while trying to resuscitate a man who had stopped breathing at a Northwoods shopping center. The man, whose identity could not be confirmed, died. Scherese Bishop, 37, was one of four Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection District...
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