By ABC13: Three firefighters and two patients were transported to the hospital after a driver slammed into their ambulance Sunday morning. The crash happened around 3:30 a.m. on the southwest freeway near Beechnut. Houston Fire Department says three firefighters were … [Read more...]
UPDATE: FIREFIGHTERS KILLED IN W.VA. RIG CRASH NAMED
By John Raby, Associated Press: Authorities on Sunday released the names of five people killed in separate weekend crashes in West Virginia, including two firefighters whose fire truck hit a rock wall while responding to the other accident. Five members of the Pratt Volunteer … [Read more...]
By Bill Green, The Frederick News-Post: A New Market ambulance on its way to a fire call was involved in a crash with two cars late Tuesday afternoon. The ambulance was responding with other first responders to a reported fire at Pasquale’s Pizza on Md. 144. The … [Read more...]
Bad news from Vermillion Township, Ohio where it appears the driver of an ambulance suffered some sort of medical emergency this afternoon, which caused his vehicle to veer off the road into a ravine. The 76-year-old patient that EMS was carrying in the ambulance died in the … [Read more...]
By KLTV: Two firefighters have been released from the hospital following a rollover wreck involving a firetruck. New London Fire Chief Curtis Riley said Thursday that two firefighters were released from the hospital with minor injuries. One firefighter remains hospitalized … [Read more...]
By Maki Becker, Buffalo News: An AMR ambulance that had been idling by the maintenance bay had caught fire late Tuesday morning, and then tanks of compressed oxygen inside the burning ambulance blew up, sending shrapnel hurtling through the air in a 100-foot radius, Buffalo … [Read more...]
A Macomb Township, Michigan man was taken into custody after he jumped in drove off in an unattended MedStar ambulance idling at a hospital during a patient delivery. The 21-year-old led police on a brief chase through Mount Clemens before running the ambulance off the road … [Read more...]
Two Los Angeles firefighters and their patient were taken to the hospital Wednesday morning when their ambulance and a passenger car collided. The other vehicle was attempting to make a left turn into the path of the ambulance. Fire officials said the firefighters and their … [Read more...]
Saturday, a Butler County, Kan., EMS rig was en route to a motor vehicle crash when it was violently struck by a semi. According to one witness, the two operating the ambulance had to be extricated, but were uninjured. The truck driver was taken to the hospital for minor … [Read more...]