Ambulances and Emergency Vehicles
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Ambulance crash tragedies like this one are a stark reminder of the danger of ignoring high-risk behavior
There is no reason why trauma scissors, Leatherman tools and folding knives need to be carried where potentially violent patients can grab them
Police are looking for a man based on the images after he crashed the ambulance into a fence pole and abandoned it
Depending on the collection rate, the city could lose $364,000 or earn $15,000 per year if run by the fire department
Two crew members made it out safely when a fire started in the back of an ambulance
Commissioners don’t know how much funding has been left uncollected due to prior a computer software billing system used for the county’s ambulance service
A city-issued memo instructs them to “avoid terminology like we have no ALS ambulances available”
He’s faces possible jail time for stealing more than $1,500 of fentanyl and morphine between August 2012 and August 2013 while working as an ambulance medic
The team communicates through text and developed an iPhone app displays a patient’s vitals and blasts out the information to the trauma team as members are assembling
“They were constantly bickering back and forth with one another, said patient Rose Preston, who took a train to the hospital
He fell asleep behind the wheel; injured, he made a phone call to a friend but when that friend couldn’t find him, it was mom who knew where to look
Officials are trying to persuade the state to give cities and towns more clout when it comes to choosing services, and switching when unhappy
The money from his estate will fund a new ambulance and the police K-9 unit for the next 10 years
Nearly 100 gave emotional testimony in support of the service, but officials and the secondary service brought up concerns over slow response times
Police followed it with GPS tracking, and arrested a 34-year-old man when he stopped in a vacant lot
The city and fire chief raised concerns about private ambulance companies, citing an abrupt closure of Life Ambulance
The chief pleaded guilty to stealing nine small vials of Diazepam after he was caught on camera taking the drugs from an ambulance
With five break-ins this week, police are investigating and crews are doing frequent checks of medicine boxes after finding they had been tampered with
Police said the 67-year-old man told officers he was doing a transfer to Dallas and was still wearing his hospital gown
The city claims Acute Medical Services used ambulances for non-emergency calls outside city limits; the company’s attorney says it was allowed
The medic narrates what happened when two people stole an ambulance while he was sleeping in the back
A patient was arrested after leading police on a 33-mile chase
The side mirror of an ambulance struck the pedestrian’s head; medics took him to the hospital in critical condition
The two vehicles collided and the ambulance struck a utility pole — cutting it into three pieces — and sheered off a fire hydrant
The trooper was injured in an earlier crash; neither he nor medics were hurt when the ambulance overturned
2 EMTs in the back were injured after he jumped into the front seat of a parked ambulance and drove erratically before crashing into a building
The driver lost control and was cited for a traffic violation; injuries were minor
Nobody was seriously injured and police are investigating the accident
Medics transported a man beaten unconscious to an area hospital, where security later broke up a fight between him and a man with a gunshot wound to his shoulder
Since the 2013 accident, Sean Hickman has gone through 14 surgeries; his 15th is coming up, and there will likely be more
