From The Associated PressA Jeffersonville man was ordered held on $100,000 bail after being charged with beating Clark Memorial Hospital emergency room workers once he was told his teenage son had died. Thomas Bonner Sr. is charged with aggravated battery on hospital security … [Read more...]
FIRETRUCK, AMBULANCE INVOLVED IN CHAIN REACTION CRASH – BUXTON, MAINE
A ladder truck on it's way to a grass fire struck a Buxton ambulance, which then collided with another vehicle, causing a chain reaction involving a total of four vehilcles. Two firefighters and two motorists recieved minor injuries in a chain reaction crash in Buxton Thursday … [Read more...]
FIRST RESPONDERS DENIED ON-DUTY DEATH BENEFITS
By Bill Dedman MSNBC.com Copyright 2007 MSNBC.comAll Rights Reserved BOSTON More than three years after President Bush signed a law granting federal benefits to families of firefighters, police officers and EMTs who die of heart attacks and strokes on the job, not a dollar has … [Read more...]
VA. CITY TO PAY $825,000 TO SETTLE LAWSUIT OVER AMBULANCE CRASH
By Duane BourneVirginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Virginia) Copyright 2007 Virginian-Pilot Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. The estate of a 34-year-old man killed in 2005 when his car was hit by an ambulance has settled a lawsuit with the city for … [Read more...]
Rescue crews in Orlando had to cut the top of a truck off in order to save a man inside. A Chevrolet Avalanche collided with a Rural-Metro ambulance on Vineland and Conroy Tuesday. Firefighters removed the roof of the car and about five of them got inside so they could pull the … [Read more...]
MAT-SU VALLEY AMBULANCE CRASH – ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
Icy roads led to a car accident between an ambulance and two other vehicles in east Anchorage today. According to police around 11:30 a.m. a Mat-Su Valley ambulance went southbound through the intersection of Boniface Parkway and Northern Lights Boulevard on a red light. It was … [Read more...]
NATIONAL EMS MEMORIAL SERVICE – LIST OF HONOREES
John Buchner of City of Scranton FD Ambulance, Scranton, PA who died in the line of duty on November 4, 1981 of injuries sustained when struck by a vehicle at the scene of a call . Larry Doughton Crouse of Alleghany Co EMS, Sparta, NC who died in the line of duty on December … [Read more...]