12/24/11
Ambulance Crash Log
Police and paramedic crews inspect an ambulance Thursday after it flipped over in an accident with a truck on Veteran's Memorial Parkway East close to Indiana 38 in Lafayette.
Dec 24, 2011, 6:14:45 PM
Ambulance Crash Log
An EMSA emergency medical technician has been charged with negligent homicide after investigators said his reckless driving of an ambulance caused a wreck that killed a man on NW 10 near May Avenue.
Dec 24, 2011, 6:10:49 PM
Ambulance Crash Log
Widow Doesn't Want Tragedy To Happen To Anyone Else
Dec 24, 2011, 6:10:02 PM
Ambulance Crash Log
Erie police have cited a woman with failing to yield to an emergency vehicle and for driving without insurance in a Tuesday afternoon traffic accident involving an EmergyCare ambulance.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:40:31 PM
Ambulance Crash Log
We are learning more about the ambulance driver who is facing charges in connection with a deadly crash. Benjamin Samples, 36, was charged with negligent homicide Monday.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:39:42 PM
Ambulance Crash Log
Officials say an ambulance responding to the first collision was struck while on scene.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:38:59 PM
Ambulance Crash Log
A portion of 14th street in Meridian was closed Saturday morning because of a two car crash involving a Metro ambulance.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:37:22 PM
Military
In wars gone by, amputation was often the only cure
Dec 24, 2011, 5:34:53 PM
Military
Combat Medics are the unsung heroes of war. Hollywood prefers to focus on the glamour of Special Operations units or the spectacle of major battles. Combat Medics seldom make the headlines. Yet without them, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and innocent civilians alike would die on the battlefield, never again to see their friends and families and country.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:34:44 PM
Military
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Peter Woken’s HH-60L Black Hawk helicopter only touched down for about a minute amid heavy enemy fire near the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:34:36 PM
Military
While engaged in operations against enemy forces near Arghandab Province July 12, 2010, an Airman risked his life to medevac three U.S. Soldiers injured by improvised explosive devices, saving their lives.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:34:35 PM
Military
Michael A. DiRaimondo Foundation offers $10,000 to aspiring paramedics
Dec 24, 2011, 5:34:02 PM
America
The fatal accident occurred after a man sheriff's deputies had picked up for a mental evaluation escaped from an ambulance on the northbound I-5 just south of the 55, authorities said.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:32:21 PM
America
Engine 5 was responding to a weather related motor vehicle accident on Del Rey Blvd. in east Las Cruces when it drove onto an icy section of road.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:31:04 PM
America
But the three fired county employees say they believe they should be offered a second chance.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:28:27 PM
America
State Sen. Jack Latvala has scheduled the first meeting of a committee to appoint an accountant to study proposed changes to Pinellas County's emergency medical services system.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:27:22 PM
America
The majority of injuries happened to hikers, followed by ATV riders, climbers and mountain bikers. The causes of fatalities included drowning, impact from a fall, ATV accident, helicopter crash and suicide.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:26:15 PM
America
Hasidic female EMTs wants to create a women's division within Hatzolah, to help deliver babies in emergencies.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:24:01 PM
America
Private contractors that are supposed to guard against Medicare fraud paid claims submitted in the names of dead providers or for unnecessary medical treatments, which were among problems estimated to cost more than $1 billion in 2009, according to an inspector general report released Friday.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:23:16 PM
America
A paramedic was hit by a car while responding to another crash Wednesday afternoon in Youngstown.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:21:21 PM
Military
Why are MEDEVAC Why are MEDEVAC helicopters (commonly called "Dustoffs"), carrying our wounded troops to safety in Afghanistan, being put at enormous risk by the U.S. Army? Why is the Geneva Convention cited by them for their actions? With every second precious when soldiers are wounded, it is a travesty that the Army will not change its policy concerning these choppers.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:17:34 PM
Criminal
Judy and Joseph Del Galdo were sentenced Tuesday. They pleaded guilty last month to charges including grand larceny.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:15:51 PM
Criminal
A decertified Bemidji ambulance EMT has been sentenced to prison and was recommended for indefinite civil commitment for stealing narcotics from his employer and drugging a young teenager before raping her in her home.
Dec 24, 2011, 5:14:04 PM
Criminal
For more than two years since he was charged in an EMT recertification scandal that rocked the town of Hamilton, the question has lingered: Why would James W. Foley, retired from his job as a police lieutenant in neighboring Wenham, take part?
Dec 24, 2011, 5:12:29 PM
Criminal
Two nurses in a Utah hospital's intensive care unit were fired this week for taping a patient's mouth shut and laughing about it, hospital officials said Friday.
Dec 24, 2011, 4:58:06 PM
Military
U.S. Army Spc. Ashley Jones sat in her bed late Monday night at Craig Joint Theatre Hospital on Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, waiting to join the solemn group of soldiers who were being awarded the Purple Heart.
Dec 24, 2011, 4:54:23 PM
Legal
The bill, A-2095/S-818, would require that, under the direction of the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services, the Office of Emergency Medical Services in the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) would serve as the lead state agency for oversight of emergency medical services delivery in New Jersey.
Dec 24, 2011, 4:41:52 PM
Human Interest
It is being driven by two veterans and one active duty member of the military.
Dec 24, 2011, 4:40:29 PM
Medevac
The total bill from Air Methods, the parent company of ARCH Medical, totaled $25,031.94. Even now, more than 3 months later, it stuns him.
Dec 24, 2011, 4:38:46 PM
Obits/Services
Ed was a long time EMT for the Independent Fire Co. 1 in Burlington Township.
Dec 24, 2011, 3:51:49 PM
Obits/Services
McMinn EMT and firefighter Zachery Shultz died after ATV crash
Dec 24, 2011, 3:35:39 PM
Obits/Services
The Star EMS worker, Bill Rose of Highland Township, was moving a patient when he collapsed about 10 a.m., a co-worker said. Efforts to revive him at Doctors' Hospital in Pontiac were unsuccessful, deputies said.
Dec 24, 2011, 3:08:15 PM
EMSN Notices
As to the many inquires about where the heck we have been.
Dec 24, 2011, 1:51:11 PM
| One wild ambulance ride - Indiana |
Dec 24, 2011, 6:14:45 PM
Ambulance Crash Log
| EMSA driver charged with negligent homicide after fatal ambulance wreck - Oklahoma |
Dec 24, 2011, 6:10:49 PM
Ambulance Crash Log
| Deadly Ambulance Crash Could Spur Change - Oklahoma |
Dec 24, 2011, 6:10:02 PM
Ambulance Crash Log
| Erie woman cited in crash - Pennsylvania |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:40:31 PM
Ambulance Crash Log
| Ambulance driver charged in death, fired - Oklahoma |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:39:42 PM
Ambulance Crash Log
| DPS Officials: Ambulance hit while on scene of wreck - Arizona |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:38:59 PM
Ambulance Crash Log
| Wreck Includes Ambulance, Pregnant Woman - Mississippi |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:37:22 PM
Military
| Advances in battlefield medicine |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:34:53 PM
Military
| Combat Medic Writes Memoir About War, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and What It Takes to be a Modern Day Combat Medic |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:34:44 PM
Military
| Army flight medic, Senior grad awarded by German government |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:34:36 PM
Military
| Pararescueman Receives Bronze Star Medal with Valor |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:34:35 PM
Military
| Applicants Sought for Scholarship Honoring Fallen U.S. Army Medic |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:34:02 PM
America
| Naked man jumps from ambulance, killed on freeway ramp - California |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:32:21 PM
America
| Fire engine crashes on way to call in Las Cruces - New Mexico |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:31:04 PM
America
| Volusia paramedics fired for smoking - Florida |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:28:27 PM
America
| Sen. Jack Latvala schedules EMS committee meeting - Florida |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:27:22 PM
America
| Into the wild with the real-life heroes of Search and Rescue - Nevada |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:26:15 PM
America
| Hasidic Women Want Separate EMT Unit - New York |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:24:01 PM
America
| Study: Problems with Medicare contractors persist |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:23:16 PM
America
| Paramedic Hit By Car At Crash Scene - Ohio |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:21:21 PM
Military
| Opinion: Army MEDEVAC Choppers Travesty |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:17:34 PM
Criminal
| Mom, son get prison in all-in-family scam in NYC - New York |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:15:51 PM
Criminal
| 24-year term for ex-Bemidji EMT who drugged, raped 13-year-old girl - Minnesota |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:14:04 PM
Criminal
| Foley guilty in Emt case - Massachusetts |
Dec 24, 2011, 5:12:29 PM
Criminal
| Nurses fired for taping patient's mouth shut - Utah |
Dec 24, 2011, 4:58:06 PM
Military
| Combat medic demonstrates resiliency |
Dec 24, 2011, 4:54:23 PM
Legal
| Sweeney legislation to revamp EMS clears Senate - New Jersey |
Dec 24, 2011, 4:41:52 PM
Human Interest
| Antique Military Ambulance Makes pit stop in Richmond - Virginia |
Dec 24, 2011, 4:40:29 PM
Medevac
| $16,786 bill for 1 mile medical helicopter flight - Missouri |
Dec 24, 2011, 4:38:46 PM
Obits/Services
| Edward R. Garrison - Pennsylvania |
Dec 24, 2011, 3:51:49 PM
Obits/Services
| Zachery Shultz - Tennessee |
Dec 24, 2011, 3:35:39 PM
Obits/Services
| Bill Rose - Michigan |
Dec 24, 2011, 3:08:15 PM
EMSN Notices
| No News Is Not Good News |
Dec 24, 2011, 1:51:11 PM
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