May 4, 2024

Review Category : Other News

10/19/2016

La Loche, SK – Paramedics honoured for heroics during school shooting

Vancouver, BC – Proposed changes might shorten ambulance wait times in BC

San Diego, California – Accident victim searches for off duty paramedic hero

Powell County, Kentucky – Paramedic injured in crash dies from injuries

Washington, D.C. – Person wanted for setting ambulance on fire

Dorset, UK – Paramedics have been delayed 7,000 hours in 4 months handing patients over to hospitals

London, UK – 1 in 3 ambulances for critically ill patients are late: More than 1.1 million people left waiting more than 8 minutes over 12 months

Victoria, Australia – Ambulance Victoria in dispute with gas giant over missing oxygen cylinders

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10/18/2016

Winnipeg, MB – Nearly 25 % of Manitoba paramedics can’t dispense Naloxone

Charleston, West Virginia – Son blames ambulance provider for mother’s death

Grimsby, UK – Ambulance service sorry after four hour wait for paramedics

Thurso, Scotland, UK – Embarrassed holidaymaker caught having cigarette in back of ambulance

Enniskillen, Northern Ireland – One in eight paramedics off sick or hurt as ambulance service pushed to the breaking point

New South Wales, Australia – Patients are becoming so fat ambulance officers are calling in police and emergency services to help with lifting

Auckland, New Zealand – Ambulance staff give strike notice

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10/17/2016

Ottawa, Ontario – City: We need 38 more paramedics to handle increased calls

Somerset County, Pennsylvania – Man pleads guilty to stealing from ambulance

Katy, Texas – Memorial Hermann Life Flight offers active shooter training for first responders

Bradford, UK – Ambulances, police cars, fire trucks could be forced to turn off sirens because they are giving a bad impression of city

Suffolk, UK – New paramedic uses his own car as a rapid response vehicle

New South Wales, Australia – Philip Hughes inquest focuses on ambulance response and policy

Victoria, Australia – Support for ambo trauma improving

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