EMT and DEA Agent Injured in Georgia Ambulance Crash
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. (FOX 5 Atlanta) - A DEA agent and an [EMT] were rushed to the hospital Friday afternoon after a head-on crash, Clayton County EMS officials confirmed.
It happened along Tara Blvd. near Main Street around 1:30 p.m. Clayton County police said the crash involved an SUV and an ambulance. The SUV and ambulance appeared to been involved in a head-on crash.
The ambulance was not on an emergency run at the time of the crash and was not transporting a patient. MORE
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Source: JEMS Operations - July 22, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Ambulances & Vehicle Ops Operations Source Type: news
Five Dead, Three Injured in Texas Crash
VICTORIA, Texas (AP) — Authorities say five people have been killed and seven injured in a three-vehicle accident in South Texas.
The Department of Public Safety says the crash happened around 11 a.m. Saturday on U.S. 59, 5 miles (8 kilometers) northeast of Victoria.
Sgt. Ruben San Miguel says investigators are trying to determine why a northbound van hit the left rear of a northbound semi pulling a flatbed trailer. The van then struck a southbound pickup truck.
Five people in the van died at the scene — the female driver, two men and two children. Five others in the van were injured.
The pickup driver and a passenger ...
Source: JEMS Operations - July 22, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Rescue & Vehicle Extrication News AP News Tag Operations Source Type: news
Boston EMS Discuss Job Dangers
BOSTON (WCVB) - The head of Boston EMS said an increase of calls for drugs and mental health issues is making their job more dangerous.
Last week, a patient with a history of mental health problems stabbed a paramedic multiple times inside an ambulance.
(Source: JEMS Operations)
Source: JEMS Operations - July 18, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Operations Administration and Leadership Source Type: news
Drones in Public Safety
The significance of this video clip in the use of a drone by FD and why is not just the overhead surveillance of a fire scene but the use of thermal imaging to identify the hot spots in the fire platform.
You will see that at about the 10 second mark.
Drones will continue to play a key part in public safety as I and many others predicted five years ago.
They are already being used to dispatch (non-piloted) AEDs in the Reno area - that arrive on rural areas 10-15 minutes before responders and are being used to do pre-surveillance response by police agencies in San Diego.
The police drones (in the City of ...
Source: JEMS Operations - July 17, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Editor Emeritus A.J. Heightman, MPA, EMT P Tags: News Ambulances & Vehicle Ops Operations Source Type: news
Three Dead, Seven Injured in Indianapolis Crash
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A woman and her 18-month-old twin daughters died in a fiery, seven-vehicle crash on an Indianapolis freeway, authorities said.
Indiana State Police say the crash happened about midday Sunday on eastbound Interstate 465. A preliminary police investigation has revealed that a semi tractor-trailer hit the back of a line of vehicles backed-up in traffic due to construction. The first car struck caught fire.
Photos: Fatal Indianapolis Freeway Crash
Police said in a statement that 29-year-old Alanna Norman Koons and her daughters, June and Ruby Koons, of Indianapolis, died in that vehicle.
Police say the se...
Source: JEMS Operations - July 16, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Rescue & Vehicle Extrication News AP News Tag Operations Source Type: news
Boston EMS Supervisor Attacked, Day After EMT Stabbed
SOUTH BOSTON (CBS) – For the second time this week, a person has been charged with attacking an EMT in Boston. The latest incident happened Thursday afternoon on Old Colony Avenue in South Boston. EMTs were called to a pizza shop for an unconscious woman when another woman tried to push past a Boston EMS supervisor to get inside the store.
State troopers were nearby in the rotary for a traffic stop and saw the struggle. Police said the woman, later identified as 37-year-old Donna Taylor of Boston, kept hitting the EMS supervisor and the two “ended up struggling in traffic on Old Colony Avenue at Preble Circle.”
As tr...
Source: JEMS Operations - July 12, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Operations Source Type: news
Pennsylvania Ambulance Signs Remind Patients It's Not OK to Assault Medics
One EMS company in Pennsylvania is hoping signs it installs inside ambulances will have the salutatory effect of reducing assaults against first responders.
According to a report from WGAL 8, a sign hangs in every ambulance at Cumberland Goodwill Emergency Medical Services, reminding patients that assaulting a first responder is a felony.
"We now want them to be aware that, look, violence against EMS providers is not OK," Nathan Harig of Cumberland Goodwill EMS told reporters.
Cumberland Goodwill is one of the first in the area to add such signs to their vehicles.
Read the full report HERE.
Violence against medic...
Source: JEMS Operations - July 12, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: News News Videos Operations Source Type: news
Survivor Describes Fatal Minnesota Medical Helicopter Crash
BAXTER, Minn. (AP) — A paramedic who survived a fatal medical helicopter crash in Minnesota has told investigators the pilot reported foggy conditions on approach to the airport and that they needed to go around. He then noticed the helicopter spin to the right and hit the ground.
But the preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board Thursday drew no conclusions on what caused the North Memorial Health helicopter to crash at the Brainerd airport June 28. The crash killed pilot Tim McDonald and nurse Deb Schott and seriously injured paramedic Josh Duda.
The report says the helicopter hit left of the run...
Source: JEMS Operations - July 12, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Ambulances & Vehicle Ops AP News Tag Operations Source Type: news
EMScapades, July 15, 2019
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Source: JEMS Operations - July 11, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Ben Clincy Tags: Operations Comics Source Type: news
Fiery Accident Injures Nine in California
911 Vide oNews - National City, Accodent July 1, 2019
INCIDENT DATE/TIME: 7-1-19 6:50 pm
LOCATION: NB I-5 near Civic Center Dr
CITY: National City
DETAILS:
Witnesses told the CHP that the driver of the silver truck was stalled in the #1 lane, when the SUV hit it and two other cars slammed into the SUV, causing a 4 car crash. 3 of the vehicles caught on fire.
There were 9 injuries with 7 of them considered to be major injuries. Several people were burned including a child. The freeway was closed for a time, but the #4 lane has been opened.
(Source: JEMS Operations)
Source: JEMS Operations - July 11, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News News Videos Patient Care Operations Source Type: news
Boston EMT Stabbed Multiple Times Inside Ambulance
BOSTON (WCVB) - An EMT was stabbed while responding to an incident on New Chadron Street in downtown Boston Wednesday afternoon.
The female EMT was stabbed multiple times inside of an ambulance by a patient according to information obtained by 5 Investigates.
The EMT, a 14-year veteran of the department, was rushed to nearby Massachusetts General Hospital and was reported to have serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
"Our first responder family faces dangers every day," Boston Police Chief William Gross said. "There is no such thing as a routine call." MORE
(Source: JEMS Operations)
Source: JEMS Operations - July 11, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Operations Source Type: news
Paramedics in the Face of Tear Gas
MPWeekly - Paramedics Stay In Face of Ghastly Tear Gas
Dr. Pierre Chan narrates a view of the EMS response during the protests in Hong Kong.
JEMS: Parting the Protesting “Seas” in Hong Kong
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Source: JEMS Operations - July 9, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Videos Operations Source Type: news
Four-Year Old Struck by Lifeguard Truck on California Beach
CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a lifeguard truck has run over a 4-year-old girl on a San Diego-area beach.
It happened at about 6:15 p.m. Monday in Coronado.
There's no immediate word on the girl's condition.
City Fire Chief Jim Lydon tells the San Diego Union-Tribune that lifeguards were patrolling in a pickup truck that maneuvered around a berm near Dog Beach.
Lydon says the truck came around the back of the berm and hit a girl crouched in the sand that the lifeguards hadn't seen.
Lydon says the truck went over the top of the girl with both tires on the driver's side.
Lifeguards and then paramedics provided ai...
Source: JEMS Operations - July 9, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Ambulances & Vehicle Ops Patient Care AP News Tag Source Type: news
Antioch, CA Rollover
EastCounty Today - At around 8:00 pm Saturday, a driver ran a stop sign and crashed into another vehicle causing it to overturn and take out a pole in the City of Antioch on W. 10th Street at D Street.
Antioch Police and Contra Costa County Fire Protection District responded and requested 3 ambulance for 3 patients, two which sustained moderate injuries. Another person sustained minor injuries.
PG&E was also requested to the scene. Antioch Police are investigating the incident.
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Source: JEMS Operations - July 8, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Videos Rescue & Vehicle Extrication Source Type: news
Rain and Flash Flooding Strand D.C. Area Drivers
WASHINGTON (AP) — A slow-moving rainstorm Monday washed out roads, stranded drivers and soaked basements, including the White House's, during a chaotic morning commute in the national capital region.
Water gushed into the press workspace in the basement near the White House's West Wing. Government employees worked to drain puddles of standing water with wet vacs.
National Weather Service meteorologist Cody Ledbetter said the storm dumped about 6.3 inches of rain near Frederick, Maryland, about 4.5 inches near Arlington, Virginia, and about 3.4 inches at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in a two-hour period.
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Source: JEMS Operations - July 8, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Rescue & Vehicle Extrication News AP News Tag Source Type: news
