A Roanoke EMS crew came to the rescue of another ambulance crew outside Roanoke Memorial's emergency room Saturday night. An ambulance from Greenbrier County, West Virginia caught fire outside the ER's entrance. According to a fire spokesperson, a Roanoke crew saw the fire in the … [Read more...]
MOTORIST ON CELL PHONE CRASHES INTO AMBULANCE – CHICAGO, IL
A woman reportedly talking on her cell phone crashed into an ambulance with its lights and sirens activated at a South Side intersection on Friday afternoon.Ambulance 14 was on its way to the hospital with a patient and a lady came through the intersection and hit the ambulance, … [Read more...]
RESCUER TALKS ABOUT SAVING TWO PEOPLE FROM BURNING AMBULANCE – ROANOKE, VIRGINIA
Usually an ambulance helps rescue others, but Saturday people had to be rescued from a burning ambulance. A Roanoke EMS crew was already on site at Roanoke Memorial Hospital when an ambulance from Greenbrier County, West Virginia arrived.Firefighter EMT Adam Fleming said they … [Read more...]
VARNA FIRE CHIEF BREAKS BACK ON THE WAY TO A CALL – ITHACA, NY
Natan Huffman's home is now a hospital bed, where he lies in a body cast, his back broken in two places, about as immobile as an overturned turtle in a white-plastic shell. To hear him tell it, he is the embodiment of the accidents that happen when people don't watch what they're … [Read more...]
CREMATORIUM CRASH PROBE LAUNCHED – UK
An inquiry has been launched after an ambulance sent to treat a man who suffered a heart attack at his mother's funeral crashed at the crematorium. Allan Betts, 49, suffered a coronary thrombosis after leaving a chapel at Middlesbrough's Teesside Crematorium. Paramedics were … [Read more...]
MAN SUES EAST PALESTINE OVER AMBULANCE CRASH – OHIO
A lawsuit seeking more than $50,000 in damages was filed Thursday against the City of East Palestine as the result of an ambulance accident. Aron J. Lipp of 17947 Neeld Road, East Palestine, named the city and also Russell A. Pieri of 153 E. Main Street, as defendants.According … [Read more...]
EXCAVATOR CRASHES INTO AMBULANCE – AUSTRALIA
By Rebecca Marshall A Maroochy Shire Council worker was fined by police for towing an insecure load after an excavator bucket fell into the middle of the Bruce Highway, ripping to shreds the undercarriage of two vehicles. The excavator was being towed north on a trailer at about … [Read more...]