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<title>Opinion: EMS ought to come from those who care</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Editor's note: This is a third-party editorial that does not necessarily reflect the viewpoint of EMS1.com.By Bill Somers Stockton RecordIn the late 1970s and early 1980s, emergency medical knowledge and technology began to make great strides in helping the critically ill and injured. The Los Angeles and Seattle fire departments were among the first to initiate advanced life support in the streets and ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:26:02 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>3 kids, 5 adults hurt in Chicago ambulance crash</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Chicago Sun-TimesCHICAGO &mdash; A Chicago woman has been cited for failing to yield to an ambulance after a four-vehicle crash that left three children and five adults injured Saturday morning on the South Side.Latoya Mayfield, 26, of the 1000 block of 104th Pl., was cited for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, failure to produce a driver&rsquo;s license and for damage to city property, police ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:21:21 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Md. gas leak hospitalizes 11</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Julie Scharper The Baltimore SunHOWARD COUNTY, Md. &mdash; Eleven people were hospitalized after they suffered carbon monoxide poisoning at a Columbia hotel last night, Howard County fire authorities said. The fire department was called to the Sheraton hotel near The Mall in Columbia around 6:15 p.m. for a carbon monoxide leak, fire spokeswoman Anna Hoffman said. Guests, including many parents and ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:53:18 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Opinion: Support for Medevacs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Editor's note: This is a third-party editorial that does not necessarily reflect the viewpoint of EMS1.com. The Baltimore Sun BALTIMORE &mdash; It took outside experts to say what supporters of Maryland's much-praised emergency medical services system probably needed to hear: that Maryland State Police helicopters could fly fewer accident victims to trauma centers across the state without compromising ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:48:09 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Denver Health may cut service as its costs soar</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Christopher N. Osher The Denver Post DENVER &mdash; Denver Health Medical Center's costs to provide care for the uninsured next year are expected to come in $75 million higher than they did in 2007, forcing the hospital to consider cutting services. Any cutbacks would come at a difficult time for indigent patients, who are using hospital services at a higher rate because of the downturn in the economy ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:59:24 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Britain discovers Al-Qaeda purchasing ambulances on eBay</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Gordon Thomas Epoch TimesLONDON &mdash; MI5 have warned Britain&rsquo;s cash-strapped National Health Services that dozens of ambulances&ndash;along with old police cars and fire engines past their sell-by date &mdash; are being snapped up by al-Qaeda operatives in the United Kingdom to mount suicide bomb attacks. So serious is the problem that counter-terrorism officials at the Home Office have ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:27:06 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>7 bodies dumped at Mexican school field</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press AP Photo Paramedics wheel away an injuried patient after a gunmen opened fire killing at least one person in northen Mexico Tuesday, just hours after police found seven bodies in a soccer field.CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico &mdash; Seven bodies were dumped before dawn Tuesday at a school soccer field in the Mexican border city of Juarez.Neighbors in an upscale neighborhood found the bodies ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:03:41 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Md. panel supports fewer Medevac flights</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Robert Little The Baltimore Sun AP Photo The wreckage of the Sept. 28 crash. BALTIMORE &mdash; Maryland's emergency medical helicopters could fly fewer accident victims to hospitals without reducing survival or affecting quality of care for patients, a panel of experts told state officials yesterday.Several panel members also questioned the size of Maryland's state-run helicopter fleet, which numbered ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:44:16 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>911 policies change after Atlanta teen's death</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dispatcher was mistaken to cancel second rescue crew, official says]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:36:14 UTC</pubDate>

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<title>Dozens of kids hurt after 3 Ark. school buses crash </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press LAKE VILLAGE, Ark. &mdash; Three school buses collided in a chain-reaction crash Monday in southwestern Arkansas, sending dozens of youngsters to a hospital but few with serious injuries, authorities said. There were 76 people in the emergency room at a hospital in Lake Village, said state police spokesman Bill Sadler. Ambulance workers listed two people as having serious injuries ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:12:56 UTC</pubDate>

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