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Copter Crash Survivors Recount Final Moments - Utah
http://www.emsnetwork.org/artman/publish/cat_index_2.shtml#3081
When flight nurse Denise Ward heard a "loud noise" and the Life Flight helicopter she was aboard began to violently spin, battering her helmeted head against the interior, she had time for two thoughts.
Call Response Time Regulation Varies - San Bernardino, California http://www.emsnetwork.org/artman/publish/cat_index_2.shtml#3080 San Bernardino County will follow neighbor by imposing fines on poor response times
Townships, village struggle over fire service - Michigan http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=982&dept_id=498575&newsid=8254942&PAG=461&rfi=9?3174 To make it work, officials are looking at eliminating the controversial full-time chief's position and may join with neighboring Groveland Township for medical services.
Passing the test - North Dakota http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2003/06/09/news/local/nws02.txt?=sedw Seven years ago Landsem took a first responder class in place of her husband, who was supposed to take it but had conflicts. Little did she know that by taking that class, she would be put in one of the toughest situations of her life. Landsem was one of the first people on the scene of the accident that her husband was killed in.
County budget talks; EMS may face layoffs; - Sedgwick County, Kansas http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/6045316.htm?613 He plans to tell the commission that he would need to eliminate 24 of the Emergency Medical Service's 133 positions -- about 18 percent -- in order to save $1 million to meet his budget target.
Vancouver to take new approach with legal injection site for addicts - Vancouver, Canada http://www.emsnetwork.org/artman/publish/cat_index_3.shtml#3077 It plans to dispense prescription heroin to hundreds of chronic addicts and to replace the clinic visited by John with a state-of-the-art, federally sanctioned facility. The day after Welfare Wednesday, when government checks arrive, ambulance sirens scream out of the downtown Eastside neighborhood with overdose cases. The $368,000 (U.S.) annual cost of such trips — and the estimated $100,000 (U.S.) spent annually on each new HIV case — helped sway voters toward a more liberal approach.
Former director of county's 911 center pleads innocent - Macomb, Illinois http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=1313757&nav=1sW7GHKp?=WQAD1s The former director of McDonough County's 911 center says she's innocent of the seven felonies in which she's charged.
Laidlaw to re-emerge with clean slate - Canada http://www.emsnetwork.org/artman/publish/cat_index_3.shtml#3076 The school bus, ambulance and inter-city bus operator, renamed Laidlaw International Inc., will likely exit from court protection within the next two weeks
Citizens get say in EMS decision - Tallahassee , Florida http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/local/6045435.htm?=col-local-story-county,5435 EMS is now provided by Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, which plans to cease providing the service by October.
Lyon ambulance board deals with budget losses - Kentucky http://www.timesleader.net/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/200306/09+00UD_news.html+20030609+newsone Monday night’s meeting of the Lyon County Ambulance Board provided an opportunity for the county’s administrator and others to suggest methods to stop the ambulance service from a continual cycle of yearly financial losses.
Plea over attacks on NI ambulance staff - Northern Ireland http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?pt=n&id=33181 Ambulance staff in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast announced in March they would not attend riot situations in the area after a paramedic was assaulted during disturbances
City wants firefighters to consider transferring shifts - Bowling Green, Kentucky http://www.emsnetwork.org/artman/publish/cat_index_2.shtml#3083 “Frankly, personnel are reluctant to transfer from shift work, with a 24 (hours on duty)/48 (hours off) work week, to a 40-hour work week schedule,” Tolbert wrote on Friday. “Currently the downside of making the change in work schedules outweighs the benefits.”
Would-be fireman saved 6 from blaze - New York http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/723.htm?=nominees+LM-awards "The whole thing happened in less than three minutes," said Dowdle, who left the building on North Henry Street in Greenpoint for the final time as firefighters headed inside to battle what became a three-alarm fire.
Real-life emergency interrupts City's participation in disaster - Sarasota, Florida http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/060903/tp4np2.htm?date=060903&story=tp4np782.htm A city of North Port task force was rated as one of the two top-performing teams during "Hurricane Jay," an emergency preparedness exercise
17 Sickened After Visiting 'Old Mill' - Saltsburg, Pennsylvania http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1078&dept_id=151025&newsid=8262325&PAG=461&rfi=9?s18 Some were taken by Life-Stat Ambulance to Latrobe Area Hospital, where a spokeswoman today said some parents apparently brought a few more children to the hospital ER later in the evening.
The benefits of consolidating emergency dispatch outweigh list of short-term problems - Asheville, North Carolina http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/editorial/36420?=buncombe.county.today Under the existing system, the county takes all calls for police, fire or ambulance service, then relays calls from within the city to city dispatchers. That results in delays of 10 to 85 seconds in response within the city.
Driver is charged after car hits Forsyth Co. ambulance - Gainesville, Florida http://www.emsnetwork.org/artman/publish/cat_index_2.shtml#3068 A 31-year-old Gainesville man was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol (see also http://www.emsnetwork.org/artman/publish/article_3059.shtml )
Puyallup may offer fire, police bond issue - Washington http://www.tribnet.com/news/local/story/3263737p-3293403c.html?=Puyallup,local,329.4 The city now also provides fire and ambulance services to the neighboring North Puyallup Fire District, which has about 2500 residents.
Workers Evacuate as Fire Erupts at Houston-Area Chemical Plant - Texas http://acs.yellowbrix.com/pages/acs/Story.nsp?story_id=39366472&ID=acs&scategory=Chemicals&?=782 A dozen or so people were working at the Channelview-area plant on the Ship Channel's north side when the fire started.
Family complains of slow response by fire department - Buffalo, New York
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--fireinvestigation0609jun09,0,6826380.story?coll=ny-api-regional-wire
An emergency call reporting a fire was handled correctly, despite a family's complaint that the fire department was too slow to respond to a blaze that destroyed their home, officials said Monday.
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