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This EMS One-Stop international edition features Steinar Olsen, director for EMS and national preparedness in the Norwegian Directorate of Health
He chose to use his personal vacation to assist in the Philippines
Footage shows EMS personnel scraping dirt from the man’s body, who was still buried up to the chest, before hauling him out of the grave
The man was briefly hospitalized with bruises, bite wounds and four broken ribs
38 visitors and security officers were also injured; China closed the politically sensitive space
A number of EMTs resigned recently because of numerous problems
The video, taken from a vehicle traveling behind the bus, showed a burst of flame and gray smoke
The 40-year-old claimed his former partner potentially put patients’ lives at risk when she cheated on him in an emergency vehicle while on duty
He suffered a fractured skull and was dragged into an ambulance by his partner and driven to the hospital; her rapid response prevented the assault becoming a fatality
The ex-employee agreed she visited an electronics store without seeking authorization, but denied misusing an ambulance for personal purposes
The man had fallen into a bay just as a truck unloaded 5 tons of grapes
The man sustained minor back injuries; his cholesterol levels are unknown
“We need only caskets, certainly not ambulances,” Pietro Bartolo, chief of health services said; he gave the death toll at 94 but said it would certainly rise as search operations continued
37 of the 1,600 stung are in critical or serious condition in hospitals
The footage shows a woman passing through the barriers and onto the line before breaking hard, just seconds before a train passes through
Officials say she intended to commit suicide in the nearly deserted Delhi metro station
An ambulance raced to the scene, but the gunman shot and killed the EMT as he tried to give aid to a wounded police officer
The ministry said rescuers so far have recovered 26 bodies; the blaze was apparently inadvertently sparked by a patient
Even though the ambulance has been driven 190,000 miles it is still useable and will be a big improvement for the poor area
In order to hide her misuse, she intentionally damaged and falsified her records, using fictitious names for patients to whom she claimed to have given the morphine to
Medics went to help the woman suffering from a panic attack and the man was watching TV with a remote in his hand, which medics thought was a firearm