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Ghe-o Rescue, all-role and all-terrain rescue vehicle
A multi-tasking vehicle able to tackle any terrain in any weather. The Rumanian company Ghe-o, specialist in the development and production of off-road vehicles, unveils Rescue, the next evolution of its Predator project. Rescue is…
Californian surfer survives shark attack
Eureka, California – It would have been a perfect day for surfing if it hadn’t been for the shark.
It was Sunday morning when Jay Scrivner, a 45-year-old college English teacher, was in the sea off Eureka in the north of…
US shutdown: emergency services unaffected so far
The “shutdown” of public offices across the USA is not affecting emergency services. Federal authorities, which have also had to close their own offices and sack 800,000 people, reassure residents. The emergency number 911,…
EMS worker runs into burning house without gear to save woman
GAINESBORO, Tennessee - Keith Bean, an emergency medical services director and Jackson County volunteer firefighter risked his life to save a woman from a burning home. He didn't think twice about running inside despite not having…
New type of ambulance introduced in Montana
Missoula, Montana – As of a few days, first responders can now be seen riding in brand new vehicles that you would expect to see cruising the roads in Europe, not in the States.
Missoula Emergency Services has introduced two…
Series of collisions shocks eastern England
60 casualties, 130 vehicles involved. A huge series of crashes caused disruption to the Isle of Sheppey, off the coast of Kent, in the east of England. Since 2006 the island has been connected to the mainland by a bridge 1.25 kilometres…
Drunken man jumps from moving ambulance
WERNERSVILLE, Pennsylvania. – During the early hours of Saturday morning, a drunken man fromWernersville jumped out of the back of an ambulance in the Upper Macungie district.
Michael Fair was being taken by Kutztown EMS from Kutztown…
Australian woman saved 42 minutes after cardiac arrest
41-year-old Vanessa Tanasio from Narre Wallen, a Melbourne suburb, was brought back to life after a cardiac arrest lasting 42 minutes. This was an intervention that seemed miraculous but was in fact the result of the correct management of a…
Obese man's transport to hospital in Saudi Arabia requires complex operation
A complex "multi-partnership” operation was required to transfer to hospital a man weighing 610kg. Saudi Arabian Khalid Mohsin Shaeri was freed from his house in Jazan after two and a half years of enforced reclusion, to undergo a…
Saved from a heart attack during the filming of Helicopter Heroes
A normal working day at Wakefield’s Yorkshire Ambulance Service, in the UK, with all staff carrying out their usual duties, while BBC television cameras spied on them for the television series "Helicopter Heroes", a documentary on…