Monday, December 13, 2010

** Funeral services held for Indiana EMT killed last week in ambulance accident

** Funeral services today for Alberta medic killed in last Monday’s ambulance/truck crash

UNITED STATES NEWS

** Funeral services for a Clark County, Indiana EMT, killed last Wednesday when his ambulance left the road and hit a tree, were held Saturday. WAVE 3 (Marisela Burgos/December 10) said the commemoration for David Gundle, 50, took place at the Indiana Campus of the Southern Christian Church. Internment followed at Walnut Hill Cemetery in Borden. Gundle, who left a wife and six children behind, was in the EMS unit’s front passenger seat when the ambulance’s driver failed to negotiate a curve and left the road;the vehicle then hit a tree head on, slicing off the left side of the vehicle. Remembered as a man who sought to follow God through his Christian faith, Gundle’s work life had included stints as both a police officer and a fireman. His wife Julie said he died doing the work he loved.

CANADA NEWS

** Hundreds of mourners are expected to converge on the tiny northern Alberta town of Mclennan today to pay tribute to medic John O’Mahony who died last Monday in an ambulance/truck crash. The service, set for 11 a.m. at the St. John the Baptist Cathedral Parish, will see an EMS honour guard line the street during the procession to the internment following the church tribute. A memorial procession has not been planned. By way of tribute to O’Mahony, Alberta Health Services has posted a page on both its external and internal websites. O’Mahony, who was a math teacher for some three decades, began his EMS career just 2 years ago. He was 65 at the time of his death.