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Emergency Live is the only multilingual magazine dedicated to people involved in rescue and emergency. As such, it is the ideal medium in terms of speed and cost for trading companies to reach large numbers of target users; for example, all companies involved in some way in the equipping of specialised means of transport. From vehicle manufacturers to companies involved in equipping those vehicles, to any supplier of life- saving and rescue equipment and aids.

Ambulance

85 new ambulances in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan have 85 new units of ambulance cars. Equipped by Spencer, the UAZ vehicles now serve all the district of the Bishkek district. The Kyrgyzstan Prime Minister Jantoro Satybaldiyev took part in ceremony of handing over of the…
News

Eurosatory 2014, photos, videos and Live Tweet

Originally devoted to defence, Eurosatory has gradually expanded into the security market. While the contexts of use differ greatly between Defence & Security, the products are definitely on the same technological continuum. Eurosatory…
News

Tragic bus collision in Nelspruit

Paramedics from numerous services are currently on the scene to assist the injured. According to bystanders on the scene the bus crashed on the Kanyamazane Road approximately fifteen kilometres outside of Nelspruit into the ditch. At this…
Stories

Wyo, woman awarded medal for CPR in parking lot

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A local office manager became the first recipient of a new award from Cheyenne Fire and Rescue on Friday. Gina Flinn was awarded the department's Citizens Medal for her efforts to provide CPR to a person suffering a heart…
Ambulance

The future of ambulance transport: SUV600

The all-new Supacat Utility Vehicle 600 (SUV 600) has taken a production standard Land Rover Discovery 4x4 and adapted it for use in the Emergency Services and wider utility sectors. The additional third axle increases the payload capacity…
News

Rwanda: Let's Join Hands to Tackle Climate Change

Wed constitutes an important avenue for the United Nations for broadening and deepening worldwide awareness, political attention and public action on sound environmental management and the challenges of climate change. Therefore,…
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Libya: ICRC delegate murdered in Sirte

Tripoli (ICRC) – The ICRC condemns in the strongest possible terms the murder of its staff member Michael Greub. The 42-year-old Swiss national, head of the organization's Misrata sub-delegation, was killed by armed men around midday today…
Equipment

Weil Mini Chest, an automatic way for CPR

The Weil Mini Chest Compressor is a pneumatically driven piston device that provides the optimal 100 chest compressions per minute with 2 inches in depth. Once securely in place, the Weil Mini provides consistent rhythm resulting in…
News

Rescue a dog into a submerged truck

Scared but safe! Crews rescued this pooch after a truck accidentally rolled into a river from a parking lot in Winthrop, Wash. over the weekend. The owner was not in the vehicle at the time. photo: Chuck Hilliard…
News

13 dead as monsoon triggers havoc in Sri Lanka capital

COLOMBO - The island’s western and southern regions experienced heavy rains with more than 100 millimetres dumped within about one hour on Sunday, an official at the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said. “The weather appears to be getting…
Health and Safety

CPRweek, Two steps to staying alive with CPR

Most people who experience cardiac arrest at home, work or in a public location die because they don't receive immediate CPR from someone on the scene. As a bystander, don't be afraid. Your actions can only help. When calling 911, you will…
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A call for respect the Red Cross emblem in Ukraine

The Ukrainian Red Cross Society, the Russian Red Cross Society, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are extremely concerned about the humanitarian…
News

Earthquake hits China, rescue under way

Rescue work is under way in the southwest of China. The Yunnan Province was hitted by a 6.1-magnitude earthquake, that leaving 29 people injured, including five in serious condition. The quake hit Yingjiang County under Dai-Jingpo…
News

MH370 is not where we think, Australian Official said

The MH370 Malaysia Airlines plane is not in the Indian Ocean search zone where underwater “pings” were detected, the Australian search authorities have announced, after a US navy officer cast doubt on whether the signals were…
News

A blaze kills 21 in a south korean hospice for elderly

In Jangseong country a fire at a South Korean hospice for elderly killed 21 people Wednesday. The hospice housed close to 80 chronically ill, largely bedridden patients, including stroke victims and advanced Alzheimer's sufferers. Although…
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India, 20 people died in a railway accident

20 People died in a railway accident on monday. Six coaches of the Gorakhdham Express went off the rails and ploughed into another carriage at Chureb railway station in Sant Kabir Nagar district. Railway…
Ambulance

How could change ambulance services in Kentucky

Emergency care could start his changes in Owensboro. In Kentucky Officials are considering restructuring all the ambulances management in the city. The idea is to build among all the system, a public ambulance service, made by a public…
Health and Safety

Japan NGO helps Yolanda thyphoon victims

TOKYO - A Japanese non-government organization has committed to provide relief goods and medical-dental services to 3,000 displaced families who sought refuge in Metro Manila after the havoc wrought last year by Typhoon Yolanda.The Japan…
Health and Safety

The Paramedic's Diary - Abandonment

Stuart Gray is the Paramedic's Diary blogger. On May, 26th, he write this touching post about people who have been abandoned, and that paramedics recovers all around the London's corners: It's not a word used very often, and when it…
Ambulance

AIRMED World Congress 2014 in Rome, 3-5 June

"Nothing endures but change" - the motto of the 11th AIRMED World Congress perfectly reflect the symbiosis from the operational experience in the past, combine with the latest research results from the present for a prosperous future…
News

Disease warning for Balkans flood

The European Commission said on Tuesday that 19 EU states had now offered assistance, with close to 400 relief workers from member countries on the ground. Kristalina Georgieva, EU commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis response, met…
Equipment

smaccGOLD, a lesson about Timing, Tribes and STEMIs

The over-arching theme of smaccGOLD was the bringing together of people from all facets of critical care to share ideas, collaborate, learn from one another and understand each other. Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM) kicked off the conference…
News

Serbia and Bosnia Flood, Europe give his support

Red Cross teams working in close cooperation with the emergency management sector and local emergency headquarters have been helping evacuate the population affected by severe floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The region has…
HEMS

Airlifting rescue in the middle of a river

A perfect water rescue action were made by EMT, Firefighters and Police in Richmond, West Virginia. A guy who try to kill himself were saved from the James River. Here below the video, who Chris Munnings capture live from the event. The…
Ambulance

Yes, also EMT can dance on Ambulance

An unknown medic in an unknown place of Usa love to Vogue. Also on work. That's what a dashcam from an ambulance register some month ago, and that's what youtube can reveal us. The ironic video show the driver who dance voguing style on a…
Ambulance

RettMobil2014, news,photos and video from the Expo

All the european rescuers from rescue organisations and fire services are in these days interested by RettMobil Expo. On a total area of 70,000 square meters, there are 20 exhibition halls - also a new record - a large outdoor area…
Stories

112 Emergency Awards, special rescue prize for Finland

The 112 Awards Ceremony has revealed its winners. Awardees from the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Spain walked off with top honours rewarding their commitment to promote and improve the European emergency…
Ambulance

RETTmobil 2014: Forum of Global Importance

The 14th RETTmobil is the concentrate of tradition and progress, achievement and success, for which there is no comparison on our continent. An impulse for the industry and the economy. A must for all those who help and…
News

Mine blast in Turkey, hundreds of workers are trapped

(Reuters) - Rescuers pulled more dead and injured from a coal mine in western Turkey on Wednesday more than 12 hours after an explosion, bringing the death toll to 201 in the nation's worst mining disaster for decades. Hundreds more were…
News

Firefighters rescue a girl from Cold Water Challenge

A 16-year-old Menasha girl found herself in a predicament Saturday afternoon when she jumped into the Fox River from Jefferson Park as part of the Cold Water Challenge phenomenon. The problem was she couldn’t get back out of the water…
Stories

Typhoon Yolanda, the needs of survivors

Saying the road to recovery will be long, the International Federation of Red Cross, which includes the Philippine Red Cross, and Red Crescent Societies are now laying out a three-year recovery plan costing 320 million Swiss francs (P16…
News

Malaysian Firefighter stop suicide attempt - VIDEO

PETALING JAYA - As attempts to convince a 35-year old woman not to jump off the 12th floor of Desa Mentari flat here, firemen quietly rappelled to the lower floor and pushed her back to the balcony. The woman was immediately whisked away to…
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8 May, your story for the Red Cross Red Crescent Day

8 May is Red Cross Red Crescent Day. Tadateru Konoé, President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, talk about the common…
News

knife attack in Guangzhou, 6 people injured

At least six people have been injured in a knife attack at a station in Guangzhou, Chinese officials say. It is unclear how many people were involved in the attack, but one person was shot and then detained by police. There is no…
News

Hong Kong, Chinese cargo sank, 11 crew still missing

HONG KONG, May 06, 2014 (AFP) - An air and sea rescue mission scoured choppy waters near Hong Kong Tuesday in a desperate search for 11 crew still missing more than 24 hours after their Chinese cargo ship sank.The Zhong Xing 2, which was…
Ambulance

airMule, Israelian made the first ambulance drone

A drive-by-wire ambulance that goes on the target automatically? Is it is possibile, that's what an Israeli Startup create with the Urban Aeronautics project. The drone is called airMule, it is 20 feed long, over 6 feet wide and weight one…
Ambulance

Solar power ambulances, who lead up the way?

In 2013 the South Central Ambulance Service of England fit his 36 vehicles with solar power panel, who can improve the efficency of all the emergency equipment, powered by a secondary battery system. This project won the prize fo Efficiency…
News

An incredible water rescue in a dangerous whitewater

Panic moments during a freestyle session. The video from Jordi Searle face a rescue moment of the kayaking in NZ. Kayakers helps one to escape from a really dangerous situation. Whitewater is inherently dangerous. Be safe while you text…
Ambulance

Are you a Good Samaritan?

It’s been a busy day. On the way home you notice a small knot of people gathered around a middle-aged person, prostrate on the pavement. The bystanders look uncertain of what to do. Do you stop and help?. Now there's a new app: the…
Equipment

Surgical Airway by Dr Rob Bryant

By Rob Bryant MDFOR THE SLIDES INCIDENCE: 1:200 AIRWAYSWHO: Anticipate need for cricothyrotomy in any patient, especially in patients with a predicted difficult airway.CricCon scoring system (unvalidated) is helpful to guide level of…
News

MERS, 1st U.S. Patient Improving

INDIANAPOLIS - A man hospitalized in Indiana with the first U.S. case of a deadly respiratory virus (MERS) that initially surfaced in the Middle East two years ago is improving, state health…
News

Woman survives 5 days after Colorado highway crash

FAIRPLAY, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado woman is recovering after being stranded in her car for five days after crashing off a rural highway southwest of Denver. Hikers found 43-year-old Kristin Hopkins of Highlands Ranch Sunday below U.S.…
Civil Protection

Climate adaptation at village level

KATHMANDU, 29 April 2014 (IRIN) - While some of the world’s poorest countries are still waiting for funds to help them adapt to climate change, others are implementing sophisticated plans without any funding, it emerged at the ongoing…
News

Drone footage show the Central U.S. Tornado devastation

The massive tornado tore that hit the centra U.S on Sunday create a massive destruction and people dead. The damage in Arkansas is reportedly "widespread" a spokesman for the state's governor tells CNN, with multiple reports of…
Equipment

Police and EMS Turn to Social Media

(MASHABLE) - Lieutenant Chris Bolton of the Oakland Police Department was skeptical of social media in 2011. As the Chief of Staff for Oakland's Chief of Police and a 13-year-vet at the time, he didn't see the benefits of having a…
Ambulance

Why Does The Fire Department Respond?

(FIREFIGHTER STORY) - One of the questions we get quite often is why we send "big red" on medical calls. After all, isn't that what ambulances are for? Isn't that a waste of fuel/time/resources for a simple medical call?Before I answer…
Of interest

Is a 48 Hour Paramedic Class Possible?

Maybe the Is this going to be on the test? people are in charge. Is this a case of bad reporting, is Brownsville, TX trying to find a way to force people out of the fire department, is Brownsville, TX trying to suggest that a 48…
News

News from Medical World Americas

Hours: 8:30am - 5:00pm Your update for day two of MEDICAL WORLD AMERICAS includes important updates and information on the conference program, exposition highlights, special events and answers to frequently asked questions.…
Stories

EMT, mom of fatal accident victim meet

(HERALD) - Glendalee Alvarado whose 7 year old daughter, Brianna Rosales was killed by a drunk driver last fall meets with BMS EMT Richard Berrio for the first time since the accident. He responded to the accident scene and stayed with her…
Of interest

Teen Jailed 13 Days... Over A Pocketknife

A high school senior in Ohio is facing felony charges after officials at the technical school he was attending for firefighter training searched his vehicle and found a pocketknife. The young man's future and his dreams of serving the…
News

Two tornadoes kill 12 people in Arkansas

(CNN/AP) - 12 people were killed Sunday by two separate tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system that moved through the central and southern United States. The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management confirmed late Sunday that…
Stories

Canada make a new report on the SAR afficency

(THE TELEGRAM, CANADA) - The Harper government has been under pressure to address the issue since last year’s stinging critique by the auditor general and the high-profile death of Burton Winters, 14, off Makkovik in Labrador, two…