Thursday, January 24, 2008
** Off duty Memphis, Tennessee paramedic killed in crash
** Charges not expected in death of Painstville, Kentucky EMS Director
** Australia’s Rural Ambulance Victoria begins recruiting drive
UNITED STATES NEWS
** An off duty Memphis, Tennessee paramedic is dead, after being killed Tuesday in a car accident. ABC 24 (January 23) said the unidentified practitioner died around 7:30 p.m. after the driver of a stolen Honda Accord struck his Durango truck head-on, forcing it to roll. The Commercial Appeal (Sherri Drake/January 23) said police have identified the EMS worker as Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton medic Daron Juan Greenway, 42. The car’s driver, whose name has not been released, died yesterday morning at the city’s Regional Medical Center.
** Charges are not expected to be laid in the road death of a Kentucky EMS Director Tuesday. That is the word from the Lexington-Herald Leader (Cassondra Kirby/January 23) which said police have determined icy road conditions were responsible for the accident that killed Paintsville resident Christa Burchett, 33. According to the newspaper, the driver of a coal truck travelling US 460 in Johnson County lost control, hitting and killing Burchett and pregnant MVA victim Erica Brown, 24. Burchett had worked EMS since 2003. She became director in April 2007 and leaves a 14-year-old daughter Olivia behind. Funeral services are pending.
AUSTRALIA NEWS
** EMS brass with Rural Ambulance Victoria are about to hire 100 new paramedics. ABC (January 24) said restructuring is the reason for the increase. Service CEO John Holloway said the additional staff will assist in reducing scheduling problems, at the same time as easing overtime expense. Recruiting is expected to begin immediately.
