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May 29, 2011

UPDATE: MN FIREFIGHTER LAID TO REST AFTER ROPE TRAINING ACCIDENT

A funeral was held Saturday for a Minnesota firefighter who was fatally injured during a training accident earlier in the week. Volunteer firefighter, 35-year-old Chip Imker, died Wednesday after falling six to eight feet onto concrete during a rope rescue exercise Monday with the Cambridge Fire Department. The community of Cambridge did not want to...
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Man Fires Shot After Ambulance Crew Enters Wrong Apartment – Pennsylvania

WILKINSBURG, Pa. — Two ambulance workers escaped without injury after having a gun accidentally pointed at them during an emergency call in Wilkinsburg.Channel 4 Action News’ Amber Nicotra reported that an Eastern Area Prehospital Services crew was called to the 1700 block of McNary Boulevard because of reports of a person having a stroke.When they...
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Three Hurt As Taxi Crashes Into Ambulance on UWS – New York

By Leslie AlbrechtDNAinfo Reporter/ProducerUPPER WEST SIDE — Three people were hospitalized when a taxi collided with an ambulance heading to an emergency call at the corner of Central Park West and W. 96th Street Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.The taxi driver and two passengers, a man and a woman, were taken by a second ambulance to...
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Ambulance struck by driver trying to pass – Louisiana

A Bossier trauma unit is damaged, police say, after a driver tried to pass traffic stopped for the ambulance the intersection of Barksdale and McDade. No one was injured in the collision, but another Bossier Rescue unit had to be called to the scene to take the patient from the first ambulance, which was on the way to...
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Air ambulance crash: Haryana announces compensation – India

The Haryana government on Thursday announced a compensation of Rs. 2 lakh each for the three residents of the city who were killed when the air ambulance crashed into their house.Besides the compensation, government job will also be given to one member of the family of Sobhraj Sehrawat whose house suffered damage in the crash,...
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