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One injured in accident involving an ambulance

WILLIAMSBURG, Ky (WYMT) – One person had to be rushed to the hospital after a crash involving an ambulance. It happened along Highway 25W in Whitley County, not far from Williamsburg. The Whitley County Sheriff tells us the ambulance was heading to a call when a car hit it. Someone in the car was injured, [...] read more..

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Long Beach Fire Department considers single paramedic response system

LONG BEACH, CA – As the Long Beach Fire Department struggles to find fat to trim after years of reductions, officials are considering putting a single paramedic on each responding vehicle instead of running two-paramedic teams. Fire command staff and city officials are presenting the switch as a way to shorten response times by requiring [...] read more..

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Cops: Paramedic accused of assaulting woman outside of police station

GASTON COUNTY, NC (WBTV) - A Gaston County paramedic is accused of assaulting a woman in the parking lot of a police station, according to police. Police say 49-year-old Bryan Allen Geouge is accused of assaulting a female dispatcher late Monday night in the parking lot of the Gaston County Police Department. Geouge told officers that [...] read more..

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Car hits ambulance transporting accident patient

BRISTOL TOWNSHIP, PA — A vehicle struck an ambulance that was transporting a person who was involved in a motor vehicle accident earlier on Friday. That person was transported to Aria Health’s Torresdale campus in Philadelphia by another ambulance, said Christopher Reif, chief of the Levittown-Fairless Hills Rescue Squad. The person’s condition was unknown Friday afternoon, [...] read more..

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Ambulance involved in 3-vehicle crash

FREMONT, Wis. (WSAU) – A three-vehicle crash on Highway 10 in Waupaca County yesterday morning involved an ambulance that was taking a patient to a hospital in the Fox Valley. The sheriff’s office says the driver of one vehicle rear ended another vehicle that was turning left. The car that caused the crash then hit [...] read more..

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Ambulance collides with SUV at busy intersection

Auburn, CA — An American Medical Response ambulance and a Chevy Tahoe crashed at about 12:15 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Highway 49 and Bell Road. While there were no injuries sustained to any of the parties, Officer Francis Mud of the Auburn California Highway Patrol, based in Newcastle, said a man and women [...] read more..

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DELAWARE: Ambulance, state trooper involved in crash

LEWES , DE — The Delaware State Police is currently investigating a crash involving a trooper and an ambulance that occurred in Lewes earlier this afternoon. The incident occurred at about 11 a.m. today as Lewes Fire Company ambulance, driven by James E. Vanvorst of Milton, was traveling eastbound on Savannah Road to an emergency [...] read more..

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Exeter ambulance catches fire

EXETER, PA – An Exeter Borough ambulance caught fire Monday evening in front of the Exeter Community Ambulance building on Wyoming Avenue. Battery acid and a strong odor was coming from the engine before the vehicle erupted in flames, Exeter Fire Chief Rich McNeil said. Workers had moved the ambulance out of the garage, 1090 [...] read more..

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Ambulance Involved in Accident Thursday Morning

RIDGEWOOD, NJ – A landscaper has been issued two summonses for improperly parking after it was side-swiped by a Midland Park ambulance Thursday morning, according to Ridgewood police. The accident occurred in front of 301 Oak St. (near the intersection of E. Glen Ave.) just past 10:30 a.m. said Lt. David McDermott. The ambulance was [...] read more..

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Ambulance involved in wreck; no serious injures reported

THOMASVILLE, NC – An ambulance transporting a patient to Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem received significant damage after it collided with an SUV at the intersection of N.C. Highway 109 North and West Lexington Avenue Extension. First responders were dispatched to the wreck at 8:27 a.m. Monday, said Zach Jordan, deputy chief of the Hasty [...] read more..

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Ambulance, vehicle in crash on Route 422

READING, PA – Two people were injured in an accident Tuesday afternoon involving an ambulance and another vehicle on the West Shore Bypass in Exeter Township. The accident occurred about 2:40 in the westbound lanes of the bypass, which is Route 422, between the Mount Penn and Interstate 176 exits. A patient was in the [...] read more..

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Fire truck and ambulance crash, three injured

OVID TWP., MI — Three emergency workers were taken to Sparrow Health System in Lansing after an Ovid-Middlebury Fire Department truck and an ambulance crashed Sunday morning. Clinton County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Jeff Clarke said the vehicles were responding to a call for house fire — it ended up being a chimney fire — shortly [...] read more..

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Ambulance driver ticketed after crash in Salina

SALINA, KS – The driver of a City of Miltonvale ambulance was cited for running a red stoplight without having the ambulance’s siren activated Saturday, resulting in a collision at the intersection of Crawford Street and Centennial Road. The ambulance was transporting a patient to Salina Regional Health Center from Miltonvale with non-life-threatening injuries when [...] read more..

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2 EHT squad members injured when ambulance flips

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, NJ – An Egg Harbor Township ambulance driver was charged with careless driving in connection with an accident that occurred while he was responding to a call Thursday, March 15 according to township police. Frank Carlin, 37, of Egg Harbor Township, a member of the Egg Harbor Township Ambulance Squad, was driving an [...] read more..

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Former Valley EMT suing city over emergency medical services

VALLEY, AL – A former Valley EMT has filed a lawsuit against the city for the loss of emergency medical services. Scott Hamil, also former Mayor of Lanett, worked as an EMS paramedic for Valley from 1990 to 2011. He was fired in October 2011. Hamil says in his lawsuit that the loss of emergency [...] read more..

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Ambulance struck by pickup

ABDEEN, SD – An ambulance was rear-ended near Waubay on Saturday as it was responding to an earlier accident on U.S. Highway 12, according to the South Dakota Highway Patrol and the Day County Sheriff’s Office. The initial accident occurred at 10:53 a.m. about two miles west of Waubay, when a pickup truck with one [...] read more..

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Ambulance en route to Newark hospital crashes when struck by car

NEWARK, NJ — An ambulance rushing a patient to a Newark hospital slammed head-on into a tree last night after a car hit it as it went through a red light, officials and witnesses said. The ambulance was crossing William Street on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard around 7:15 p.m. when it was struck, said [...] read more..

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Ambulance Involved in Accident When Responding to Call

PHARR, TX — An ambulance, responding to a traffic accident call in Pharr, was involved in an accident of it’s own on Wednesday. Police report that a Med Care ambulance was on it’s way to a accident call when it was rear ended by a driver of a Jeep Wrangler on the frontage road of Expressway [...] read more..

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SUV hits Joliet ambulance

JOLIET, IL — Police say an unlicensed driver T-boned an ambulance as it made its way to another traffic accident Wednesday. Two firefighters were responding to a “minor” crash around 3:30 p.m. when their vehicle was struck at McDonough and Joyce Road, Deputy Fire Chief Ray Randich said. The driver of the SUV, Ruth Gutierrez, [...] read more..

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HFD ambulance crashes at Memorial City hospital

HOUSTON, TX — A Houston Fire Department ambulance crashed into a pillar at Memorial City Medical Center early Saturday. It happened around 4:30am at the hospital on Gessner near the Katy Freeway. Authorities tell us no patients were inside the ambulance at the time and no one was seriously hurt. There is no word yet [...] read more..

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Sit Wait And Talk

I have always joked that SWAT stood for “sit wait and talk”, mostly because that’s what we typically do when assigned to SWAT standbys. I have probably been assigned to more of these than I can count and have never actually had to provide any kind of medical-aid. Well, I did have a bystander walk [...] read more..

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Seven injured after car hits ambulance on way to Chicago shooting

CHICAGO –  Seven people, including four children, were injured in a traffic accident Sunday afternoon when an ambulance responding to reports of a fatal drive-by shooting was struck by a car on Chicago’s South Side, The Chicago Tribune reported. Authorities said the ambulance was on its way to the scene of the shooting — where [...] read more..

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Ambulance Involved In Fairfield Crash

BREMEN, Ohio –   Troopers from the Lancaster post of the Highway Patrol will ticket the driver of a civilian vehicle that disobeyed a stop sign and broadsided a medic unit that was transporting a patient, topping the medic unit over. The collision took place at State Route 36 and route 664 just north of [...] read more..

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Pasadena ambulance involved in crash

PASADENA, CA – An ambulance responding to a medical call collided with a motorcyclist Thursday afternoon, injuring one. The crash happened about 4 p.m. at the intersection of Marengo Avenue and Corson Street, according to Pasadena Fire Department spokeswoman Lisa Derderian. The motorcyclist, a man in his late 20s, was taken to a local hospital [...] read more..

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