Ambulances and Emergency Vehicles
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Innovative safety tools for driving ambulances can help lower risk substantially
Ambulance makers debate their product, outline the current trends, discuss what the future may hold
Saving minutes is not worth risk of crashing, not to mention unnecessary public criticism
She was armed with a knife and the sheriff’s deputy said he feared for his life
He’s expected to get 3 1/2 years in prison after an unconscious woman woke up to him touching her inappropriately in the back of an ambulance
He will serve 27 months for offering kickbacks for fake Medicare ambulance transports
First Response will fill the void left by the shut down of Crossroads Ambulance Service
Robert Moses, 86, hasn’t missed voting in an election since he was a teen, and wasn’t about to break that record
The city switched to another provider due to financial concerns and dropped calls, but Thornhurst EMS hopes to restart its BLS service
Five people, including two medics, were injured in the collision
A firefighter asked to change his vomit-covered clothes and wash out the ambulance, but the request was denied
One person suffered life-threatening injuries; a car may have tried to pass a moped and hit the ambulance head-on
Fundraisers have been set up for Kayla Smith, a single mother with three kids who is expected to be out of work for at least six months
He fell off of a houseboat; paramedics arrived and gave the boy oxygen until the ambulance got there
The ambulance was not transporting patients; it’s unclear if charges will be filed against the driver of the car
The pedestrian, a person in an Accord and an occupant in the ambulance were taken to the hospital for treatmentA pedestrian, a person in a car and an occupant in the ambulance were taken to the hospital for treatment
Carol Miller was sentenced to three months in jail after pleading guilty to stealing $240K from the nonprofit; her husband was previously sentenced for three years
The city of Lockport may have violated a firefighters’ union contract by reducing staff and taking ambulances and fire trucks off the road with plans to replace the ambulance service with a private company
An 18-year-old that rear ended the ambulance was charged with following too closely
All three responders said that they immediately fell back on their training, which helped ensure a safe delivery even if the circumstances weren’t ideal
A 90-year-old woman had to wait at least 45 minutes; she fell unconscious while waiting
The coroner is investigating the death of Steve Phillips, 50, who died in the back of an ambulance after his partner tried to save his life
“I love my job,” Timothy Greenlee said at the hearing. “I can return to be a better firefighter than I was before my addiction.”
He still plans to seek a judge seat after a secretly recorded tape of him was released to local news stations
The basic fee will be $405 and the advanced will be $508, for an estimated additional $1 million in annual revenue
The EMT failed a drug test after an unspecified amount of Demerol went missing from an ambulance
Cellphone video of the accident shows firefighters and paramedics tending to those injured
He was in charge of the local ambulance company when it over-billed city residents; AMR agreed to a $1M settlement in 2010
Over the past four decades, EMS agencies have seen expanded EMT roles, a shift toward patient transfers, improvements in advanced life support, and better ambulances
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