MD Ambulance medics in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan attend to a patient at a house fire.

Rescue workers secure a climber, who was struck by an avalanche, after carrying him down from a mountaintop, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007, on Mt. Kamihorokamettoku in Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido.

An ambulance staff attends a volunteer acting as an injured passenger during an emergency drill simulating at Hong Kong international airport, November 23, 2007.

Paramedics start their training at a field hospital established near the Vienna Ernst Happel Stadium in preparation for the UEFA EURO 2008 championships in Vienna, 02 November 2007.