By MICHAEL CUMMINGS - Manawatu Standard | Wednesday, 20 June 2007St John is dealing with more incidents of drunk, drugged and violent patients lashing out at its ambulance officers. Patients are becoming increasingly violent and unpredictable "and this is partly due to the types … [Read more...]
GERMAN TOWNSHIP AMBULANCE CRASHES INTO POND – INDIANA
An ambulance on its way to a car accident wrecked after the driver suffered a medical problem that left him incapacitated. The German Township Volunteer Fire Department ambulance went off the road, struck a tree and came to rest with the front end partially submerged in a … [Read more...]
Lights and sirens were blaring today as an ambulance on Interstate 470 crossed W.Va. 2, but those warning signals were not enough to prevent a crash that sent several people to city hospitals.A Belmont ambulance crashed into the front end of a Chevrolet Cavalier at 7:30 a.m. … [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...]
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...]
VICTIM PART OF TEAM RESPONDING TO CRASH – NJ
A paramedic with ties to Perth Amboy, South Amboy and Woodbridge died Sunday morning of an apparent heart attack, after responding to a serious accident on the New Jersey Turnpike. Joseph Murawski, 51, a South Amboy resident and paramedic with Raritan Bay Medical Center in Perth … [Read more...]
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...]