10/9/11

Military

Army aviators in high demand on the battlefront

Army aviators - the soldiers who fly attack missions, ferry troops and supplies and evacuate the wounded - are in ever-increasing demand even as America eyes the exits in Afghanistan. The Afghanistan conflict, which marked its 10th anniversary Friday, is in many ways a helicopter war.

Oct 9, 2011, 8:20:33 PM

Legal

AG's office says county EMS board must hold public meetings, can't ban paramedic - Nebraska

Adams Rescue Capt. Mike Pethoud sought the opinion in July after he said he was banned from all Gage County Emergency Medical Service Advisory Board meetings.

Oct 9, 2011, 8:19:07 PM

Ambulance Crash Log

Barnegat Man Arrested for DWI After Head-On Collision With Parked Car - New Jersey

Robert Runne, 55, was driving on Gunning River Road shortly after 5 p.m. when he lost control of his vehicle

Oct 9, 2011, 8:15:06 PM

Ambulance Crash Log

Greater Valley EMS, Victim of Hit and Run Trailer Accident - New York

State Police are looking for a tractor trailer driver after a hit and run with a Greater Valley Ambulance Friday morning.

Oct 9, 2011, 8:11:23 PM

Canada

Police, EMS workers attacked in La Loche - California

The officers called an ambulance. While they were assisting the man, people who were attending two house parties threw beer cans and bottles at them.

Oct 9, 2011, 8:09:18 PM

Criminal

Police: Man falsely posed as EMT during flood - New York

Another person at the shelter recognized Rogler — knowing he was neither a member of the Red Cross nor an EMT — and alerted authorities.

Oct 9, 2011, 8:07:49 PM

Medevac

Medical helicopter makes emergency landing in Westampton - Pennsylvania

A mechanical problem forced a medical transport helicopter to make an emergency landing Sunday at a church on Valley Farm Road.

Oct 9, 2011, 8:06:02 PM

America

EMS companies are held to a higher set of standards - Maryland

Emergency medical services (EMS) companies have more to lose than do fire companies.

Oct 9, 2011, 8:04:44 PM

America

Daytona hospital: Halifax taxpayers carry unfair burden for medical flights - Florida

Helicopter costs hadn't been such a major funding issue before America went to war.

Oct 9, 2011, 8:02:25 PM

America

Internal changes afoot at Stratford EMS - Connecticut

Officers at Stratford Emergency Medical Services will be stripped of their titles later this month and replaced by supervisors -- the next in a series of internal changes set off by a report that revealed profitability problems and a storm of internal troubles within the department last year.

Oct 9, 2011, 8:01:22 PM

America

Alarms about ambulance contract went unheeded - California

Mayor Jerry Sanders and the City Council were warned of possible financial irregularities with San Diego’s public-private ambulance partnership in 2007 yet took little action until earlier this year.

Oct 9, 2011, 7:58:57 PM

America

Former Cleveland councilman responds to ending city-owned EMS: ‘Fire the general, not the army’ - Texas

Two bad experiences with my family and private EMS contractors that resulted in tragic results, caused me a great deal of grief and pain and a desire to have a service that would be outstanding in performance, with highest qualifications and concerns for the citizens of Cleveland.

Oct 9, 2011, 7:56:56 PM

America

Buena Vista taking over medical rescue in Newtonville - New Jersey

The medical service will be the first responder for the area north of Weymouth Road, with the exception of Collings Lakes. Emergency calls will be routed to it, so residents shouldn't notice the change at that level.

Oct 9, 2011, 7:55:36 PM

America

Chasing ambulances - Florida

We questioned Sumter County commissioners' logic in switching to a private ambulance provider earlier this year and dumping Lake-Sumter Emergency Medical Services.

Oct 9, 2011, 7:54:06 PM

America

Prosser ER doctors pay for video scopes for ambulances - Washington

Drs. Keith Butvilas and David Talbot of the hospital's emergency department each shelled out $1,000 of their own money to buy two King Systems video laryngoscopes for each of the hospital's two ambulances.

Oct 9, 2011, 7:52:51 PM

World

Horror of rape recalled - South Africa

A Joburg Emergency Management Services paramedic is facing divorce after being repeatedly raped and forced to perform oral sex on strange men.

Oct 9, 2011, 7:50:35 PM

Human Interest

Montauk EMT Defied Odds, But Needs Community's Help - New York

Allyson Wald suffered brain damage and needs help for day-to-day care and cognitive rehabilitation

Oct 9, 2011, 7:48:49 PM

Human Interest

Longtime paramedic now EMS chief - Arizona

Tri-Valley Ambulance Service has selected one of its longtime paramedics to run its rescue operations in Wellton.

Oct 9, 2011, 7:48:16 PM

Human Interest

EMTs fought off mad pit bull - New York

A man was being mauled by a pit bull that had gotten loose. Police had not yet arrived and witnesses stood about, too afraid to help.

Oct 9, 2011, 7:47:38 PM