A chain-reaction crash on a snowy interstate highway involving about 50 vehicles, including an ambulance carrying patients, killed one person Thursday, officials said. A 10-mile stretch of Interstate 90 was closed for hours in both directions after the early afternoon accident. … [Read more...]
WORKERS RESCUE AMBULANCE TRAPPED BY FALLEN TREES – UK
WORKMEN came to the rescue after an ambulance became trapped by fallen trees in last weeks storms. The drama unfolded on Rivacre Road last Thursday when the medics arrived to help a motorist after a tree had landed on a car. But just as they were about to take the driver to … [Read more...]
MINOR INJURIES REPORTED IN AIR AMBULANCE PLANE CRASH – PITTSBURGH
A Cessna Citation II twin-engine airplane crashed in Butler Wednesday morning, WTAE Channel 4's Andrew Stockey reported. Four people were on board an Air Trek air ambulance that, according to witnesses, overshot a runway while landing at Butler County Airport. The plane slid off … [Read more...]
HEART ATTACK STRIKES N.Y. PARAMEDIC DURING CLASS
By Carl Macgowan Newsday (New York)Copyright 2007 Newsday, Inc. A training session for fire department paramedics turned into a real-life drama Friday when one of the students went into cardiac arrest. Three paramedics from Long Island and a lieutenant from Howard Beach sprang … [Read more...]
MEDICS, VICTIM CAUGHT IN CRASH – CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY
A man is recovering from two separate injuries overnight. First he lit himself on fire. Then, the ambulance taking him to the hospital crashed overnight in Camden. Authorities tell Action News that the man had been using rubbing alcohol when he accidentally set himself on fire … [Read more...]
An Adams County ambulance rushing a patient to York Hospital collided with a car at the intersection of routes 30 and 616 in West Manchester Township at 9:47 this morning, and the patient was pronounced dead at the scene. York County Deputy Coroner Claude Stabley said the … [Read more...]
FIREFIGHTER HIT BY STATE TROOPER EN ROUTE TO EMERGENCY CALL
By MELISSA DiPANE 6 News Anchor/ReporterSEVIER COUNTY (WATE) -- The Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating whether a trooper went too far in forcing a firefighter answering a call to stop. Michael Huskey was in the family minivan with his wife and kids when he heard a call … [Read more...]