Ambulance crashes
Paramedic critical after ambulance collides with pickup
Posted on 19 May 2013
TOWN OF ULSTER, NY – A Mobile Life Support Services paramedic is in critical condition and an emergency medical technician was injured after their ambulance collided head-on with a pickup truck on Route 32 on Saturday morning, the Ulster County sheriff’s office said. William Spadafora, 43, of Hurley had to be extricated from the ambulance [...] Continue Reading
General News
Collier County EMS denies response delays
Posted on 19 May 2013
COLLIER COUNTY, FL – Collier County EMS personnel continue to fight off fierce criticism over their response times. We got our hands on an internal report into one mishandled call. The delay had to do with an emergency tone that responders are supposed to use to initiate their response. But in the case of Charles [...] Continue Reading
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DC paramedic departures causing major staffing concerns
Posted on 19 May 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – The District of Columbia is losing paramedics at an alarming rate and they are not being replaced. 53 have resigned or retired since Kenneth Ellerbe became fire chief in 2011. It is an exodus that has led to a critical staffing shortage with advanced life support units going unfilled every day. The [...] Continue Reading
Ambulance crashes, General News
Man charged with stealing ambulance, crashing into cars in Norfolk
Posted on 19 May 2013
NORFOLK, VA – Police say a man was drunk when he stole an ambulance and crashed into five cars in Norfolk. Just after 11:00 p.m. Tuesday, police say 25-year-old Lamont Antonio Davis got into the private ambulance that was parked at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and drove off. They say he drove down Colley Avenue, [...] Continue Reading
General News
Ambulance company under investigation
Posted on 19 May 2013
STAMFORD, CT – Nelson Ambulance, which provides non-emergency patient transport services for hospitals and medical facilities throughout Fairfield County, is the subject of an investigation by state health officials, Hearst Connecticut Newspapers has learned. A former supervisor of the company said he has told the FBI that Nelson Ambulance is falsifying bills submitted to Medicaid [...] Continue Reading
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Man Steals Ambulance With Driver Inside
Posted on 19 May 2013
CHATTANOOGA, TN – A man stole a Memorial ambulance that was at Erlanger on Friday afternoon while the driver was inside. The man was later arrested after the driver got him to bail out by yanking him from behind. A call was received by Hamilton County 911 at 2:09 p.m. regarding an ambulance from Memorial [...] Continue Reading
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Albuquerque’s new class of paramedics hits the streets
Posted on 28 April 2013
ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Albuquerque has 28 brand new paramedics ready to hit the streets with the Fire Department, and when they do they are likely to find themselves working in a brand new way in rescue units and fire engines. For years the department has assigned two paramedics to each rescue unit. The plan is [...] Continue Reading
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Scottsville woman accused of taking ambulance outside U.Va. hospital emergency department
Posted on 28 April 2013
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A Scottsville woman faces charges of taking an ambulance from a parking bay at the University of Virginia Medical Center’s emergency department. Media outlets report that U.Va. police charged 45-year-old Laura Jean Aven on Wednesday with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. U.Va. police say the ambulance’s driver left it unlocked with [...] Continue Reading
Ambulance crashes
Two people were injured in an accident involving an ambulance
Posted on 28 April 2013
Estherville, IA (KICD) — Emmet County Sheriff Mike Martens said just after 5:30, Monday afternoon, his office received a report of an accident 5 miles north of Estherville, on Highway 4. Upon investigation, it was determined a 1988 Ford Lifeline Ambulance, owned by the Palo Alto County Hospital, was northbound, when the driver, 27-year old Cody Petersen [...] Continue Reading
Ambulance crashes
Ambulance carrying patient rolls over in accident in Clayton Township
Posted on 28 April 2013
CLAYTON TOWNSHIP, MI — An ambulance carrying a patient was involved in a rollover accident Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of Corunna and Seymour roads. The ambulance was headed eastbound on Corunna Road when it apparently ran a stop sign and collided with a vehicle on Seymor Road, police said. The ambulance then flipped over [...] Continue Reading
Ambulance crashes
Ambulance Overturns in Crash, Three Injured
Posted on 25 April 2013
TRENTON, Tenn. – Two Gibson County first responders and another man were rushed to the hospital late Wednesday morning after a violent crash. Police said the wreck happened as Gibson County first responders were on their way to an emergency call in Trenton. It was quite an interesting meeting for Trenton’s Domino Club. “We were [...] Continue Reading
General News
Police: Oxford Man Drove Ambulance With Medics, Patient Inside
Posted on 25 April 2013
DANBURY, CT— Police arrested a 52-year-old who allegedly moved an ambulance while medics treated a patient in the back. The ambulance was at a scene on Sandpit Road on Friday night when the suspect, later identified as Peter Prunty, got in the driver’s seat and moved the vehicle about 50 feet, police said. Prunty then [...] Continue Reading
General News
Clark County losing ambulance service
Posted on 25 April 2013
Clarksville, IN. (WDRB)–Some local EMTs are out of a job after their contract with Clark County was terminated. “I was scared that they would…I’ve heard rumors from EMS providers that have known the history of the company,” says Thomas Harris, EMT. Harris says Wednesday morning the rumors came true when management at Rural Metro Ambulance [...] Continue Reading
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Police seek ambulance stolen from UAB emergency room Saturday night
Posted on 25 April 2013
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Police are on the lookout today for an ambulance they said was stolen from the entrance to a hospital emergency room. Authorities said a Haynes ambulance was taken from UAB hospital about 8 p.m. Saturday. It was parked on an emergency room ramp at the time. An executive with the company said [...] Continue Reading
General News
Paramedic Accused of Driving Ambulance While Drunk
Posted on 25 April 2013
PIKE COUNTY, Ky (WSAZ) — A paramedic is behind bars troopers say he was driving an ambulance while under the influence of alcohol. Kentucky State Police tell WSAZ.com Jeffery Hignite was weaving in and out of traffic until he hit a guardrail on Kentucky Route 319. He wasn’t hurt. He was charged for driving drunk [...] Continue Reading
Ambulance crashes
8 hurt in multiple accidents in SW Oklahoma City Read more: http://www.koco.com/news/oklahomanews/okc/8-hurt-in-multiple-accidents-in-SW-Oklahoma-City/-/11777584/19822302/-/10nu4u3/-/index.html#ixzz2RTAyhR5i
Posted on 25 April 2013
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK —Seven people were injured in a wreck involving an ambulance on Friday afternoon, according to the Emergency Medical Services Authority. The crash happened at Interstate 240 and Shields Boulevard, authorities said. The interstate was briefly closed by troopers in both directions at Interstate 35 because of that accident and a motorcycle crash [...] Continue Reading
Ambulance crashes
Cop car, ambulance collide while making emergency calls in Bernards
Posted on 20 April 2013
BERNARDS, NJ — A patrol car and a Basking Ridge First Aid Squad ambulance were significantly damaged after they collided last weekend while responding to two separate emergencies within the township, according to Bernards Police Capt. Edward Byrnes. Patrolman Alex McKnight was on his way to a Butternut Lane home on a report of a [...] Continue Reading
General News
Ambulance stolen outside U.Va. hospital emergency room, found a few blocks away
Posted on 20 April 2013
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — University of Virginia police are looking for someone who stole an ambulance. WVIR-TV reports the ambulance was stolen early Wednesday after the driver had left it unlocked with the engine running at a University of Virginia Health System emergency room. The ambulance was later found abandoned a few blocks away. SOURCE Continue Reading
Ambulance crashes
Police: Ambulance driver passed out before crash
Posted on 20 April 2013
FORT WALTON BEACH, FL – The driver of an Okaloosa County EMS ambulance passed out before he caused a five-vehicle crash at Mary Esther Cut-Off and Wright Parkway on Tuesday evening, according to police. David M. Keller, 40, of Baker, was talking with his partner as he drove the ambulance south on Mary Esther Cut-Off [...] Continue Reading
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