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Michigan EMS leaders share the challenges in locating, extricating and transporting victims of snowmobile crashes
The year was full of disaster responses but also brought impressive extrications, off-duty saves, helpful Boy Scouts and a rampaging camel
A Maryland Go-Team member shares his knowledge and passion with others
Parker County Hospital District paramedics faced an amputation and having to perform bilateral finger thoracostomies
Two vehicles ended up overturned inside a Boston Market in Saugus
A Portland streetcar driver and passenger were injured in a collision with a light rail train
Two people had to be extricated from the car after both vehicles crashed into a Long Beach restaurant
First responders in Swansea had to stabilize the house before removing the car
A vehicle collided with a King County Metro bus, sending it into a building in the Belltown neighborhood
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Smoke from wetland fires mixed with fog to create a “super fog,” causing several crashes on I-55 near New Orleans
First responders in Cincinnati had difficulty reaching the SUV after it had been pushed past the crossing
A tractor-trailer driver was killed after a train carrying coal derailed and fell onto a highway near Pueblo
Arcadia first responders had to extricate the man from the combine
Injured members of the 11th Airborne Division were transported by ground and air to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital
San Diego and Chula Vista FFs worked to extricate the driver after his truck went off a freeway ramp and overturned