KCCI8 News
DES MOINES, Iowa — An early morning ambulance crash near Newton is raising concerns over how long paramedics can work without rest.
There’s no official cause of the crash yet, but several former employees told KCCI that the company asks some employees work up to 72 hours straight without enough time to rest.
Plastic wrap is holding together what’s left of the MidWest Ambulance that landed in a ditch and rolled several times around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The ambulance was on its way back to Des Moines from Dubuque and didn’t have a patient onboard at the time of the crash.
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