Vehicle Crashes
The vehicle crashes topic contains news about single or multiple car crashes, ambulance crashes as well as vehicular risks and challenges to EMS providers.
Every ground ambulance and helicopter crash has different causal factors, but we must look at system design and safety behaviors to prevent further crashes
An honest reflection on the worst suffering I have seen as a paramedic is as I roll up to a bad motor vehicle collision
Once the department decides it needs them, training on how to safely use them in the environment where they’ll be deployed is critical
Employees and shoppers were rendering aid when first responders arrived; EMS providers transported 16 people to hospitals
The injured patients were transported via Airmed and ground ambulance
“We have made a lot of progress, but there is still a lot of work to be done,” said Carter Bevins, chief of the Neon Volunteer Fire Department
Crews rushed to move the injured recruits off a live electrical wire downed in the crash and stabilize as many patients as possible
‘We need a tourniquet': LASD recruits render aid to wounded after driver plowed into them during run
“We need an airway for him,” one recruit shouted, while another was heard repeatedly saying, “We need help, here. Help, here.”
All four people were transported to area hospitals
Sheriff Alex Villanueva said the range of the most serious injuries included head trauma, broken bones and “loss of limb”
South Montgomery and Spring FD crews rescued a man from the dangling big rig; and EMS providers transported the critically injured box truck operator
At least three people were flown to medical facilities due to their injuries
Another crew took over patient care
The apparatus landed on its side after crashing during a non-emergent response
Elyria crews were battling a semi-trailer blaze on the Ohio Turnpike when the blast occurred
St. Paul police officers and EMS providers received a report of a possible pedestrian hit by a vehicle but found the effect of an entanglement
Charles LoTiempo could lose his job and will remain suspended with pay until a decision is reached
Monticello Fire Department crew members extricated a Wayne County EMS provider from the ambulance
Madison County providers reportedly had to shake the woman, who was unresponsive at the wheel of her vehicle, causing her to hit the gas pedal
Several passengers were trapped inside the train after the incident; providers transported six Silver Dollar City visitors and one employee
Darrell Brooks was found guilty of all 76 charges, including six counts of first-degree intentional homicide
Bryan Aparicio and his girlfriend, Sue, were two of five people injured in the fuel tanker blaze
The ERSI has already tracked 34 first responder roadway-incident deaths in 2022 and an average of two struck-by incidents daily
Delray Beach, Boca Raton and Palm Beach County fire rescue teams worked to put out the blaze, while EMS providers transported the injured
Since the September crash, Ashley Diaz continues to battle infections from her wounds, and underwent a partial amputation of her leg
A second Fort Osage Fire Protection District member also was hurt when a brush truck became surrounded by heavy smoke and was destroyed
Central Alexander crewmembers freed the driver, then removed the vehicle while maintaining the building’s structural integrity
Monroe firefighters were forced to cut out the windshield and pull the driver onto a boat; EMS providers transported the patient to a hospital
Megan Warfield, a firefighter with Baltimore County and the Bowleys Quarters Volunteer Fire Department, checked on a driver in an overturned vehicle
Crewmembers were transporting a patient in critical condition; five people, including the driver of other vehicle, were taken to hospitals
State police said that the deceased person was not in the ambulance and that another person was transported to a hospital
Dalhart Volunteer Fire Department Chief Curtis Brown and Firefighter Brendan Torres were returning from a call
The suspect, who admitted to having several drinks, was driving in the emergency lane when he hit a Memphis Fire Department ambulance
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