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(AP) FORT WORTH, Texas - At first, fire officials suspected that carbon monoxide or some other toxic fumes had sickened almost 150 people at a Texas bank call center. It turned out that perfume was to... View the full article
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(AP) FULTON, Miss. - One person was killed and others injured in an explosion Wednesday at a copper tubing plant in northeast Mississippi, emergency officials said.Itawamba County Coroner Steven McNeece... View the full article
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CHICAGO - An Austin neighborhood man was arrested and charged after he allegedly hit a paramedic in the face with a bottle Tuesday night on the West Side.Dimitrios Rush, 41, of the 5200 block of West... View the full article
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CLEVELAND CITY, Tenn. - Cleveland City Fire Chief Chuck Atchley drew a standing ovation from Cleveland firefighters after he urged Cleveland City Council members to vote against a fire contract offered... View the full article
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(AP) INDEPENDENCE, Minn. - Police say two children are among four people killed when a sport utility vehicle crossed the center line and collided head-on with a dump truck west of Minneapolis.The crash... View the full article
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(AP) SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. - Officials say narrow, winding mansion driveways are causing a safety hazard in New York's Hamptons.Proposed regulations would ensure driveways are wide enough to get ambulances... View the full article
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Eastern Kentucky University and the Madison County Emergency Medical Service have agreed to a property swap that will lead to a new ambulance station between the university?s campus and Pattie A. Clay... View the full article
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ST. PAUL - Reports released Monday say the St. Paul ambulance crew that ran over a 79-year-old woman on June 20 did not follow recommended department guidelines.The reports indicated people on the scene... View the full article
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(AP) OKLAHOMA CITY - Five people were critically injured Saturday when their single-engine aircraft crashed in far northwestern Oklahoma City.The aircraft had taken off from Wiley Post Airport and was... View the full article
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(AP) BRIARCLIFF MANOR, New York - Authorities are trying to determine how a woman driving a minivan carrying two of her children and three young nieces got onto a suburban parkway heading in the wrong... View the full article
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Jonathan Hammel, a paramedic from Allentown, is used to giving intravenous fluids to patients. He said he probably does a couple hundred a year.He usually doesn't have to crawl 10 feet on his belly through... View the full article
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Menoher Heights Volunteer Fire Company is shutting down its ambulance service at 12:01 a.m. Monday.?It is a financial matter,? fire company President Tabitha Livingston said. ?The run load doesn?t support... View the full article
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CHICOPEE - Two city firefighters, a patient being transported in a Chicopee Fire Department ambulance and a driver of a second vehicle were all injured Thursday night in a collision at Resnic and Pine... View the full article
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GREENWOOD - Sussex County paramedics have a new tool in their medical arsenal - a device that can replace hands in performing CPR, the first in the state. The devices, put into service at 10 county medic... View the full article
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(AP) CORNISH, N.H. - A judge has cleared the town of Cornish, N.H., of wrongdoing in a lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who drowned in 2006 when an airboat sank during a rescue attempt.The Cornish... View the full article
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A program in the works to train Abilene firefighters to be paramedics could put the city in a position one day to take over emergency ambulance service from MetroCare.While the city may not be gearing... View the full article
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After 25 years of existence, the UPMC St. Margaret Paramedic Response team is one of a dying breed.The 10-member team, based out of the hospital near Aspinwall, was on life support nearly six years ago.... View the full article
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(AP) SMITHSBURG, Md. - A helicopter crashed onto a western Maryland interstate highway and burst into flames, killing three employees of a flight instruction company and a passenger, the company said Friday.The... View the full article
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(AP) STROUD, Okla. - An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper caught on video cussing and fighting with the driver of an ambulance carrying a patient has been suspended for five days.A patrol spokesman said... View the full article
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The McMinnville Fire Department may never have another custom-built emergency vehicle like the one that crashed today. The vehicle, which few regional fire departments own, took months to build by a South... View the full article
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(AP) BISMARCK, N.D. - A group that represents North Dakota's ambulance and emergency workers was ordered Wednesday to repay more than $124,000 in federal disaster planning money spent on alcohol, lobbying... View the full article
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(AP) STUART, Fla. - During the early hours of a steamy July 2003 morning, Martin Memorial Medical Center chartered a private plane and sent 37-year-old Luis Jimenez back to the Central American country... View the full article
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(AP) CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Cedar Rapids firefighters and a hazardous materials squad were called out when a spill of nitric acid created an orange cloud over an electroplating plant.The cloud was first... View the full article
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OXFORD -- One town official is demanding action be taken to limit the head of the Oxford Ambulance Service's use of his town vehicle in the wake his arrest on charges of drunken driving.Selectman August... View the full article
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(AP) MARIETTA, Ga. - MetroAtlanta Ambulance is donating two fully operational ambulances to a southwest Georgia county without access to emergency medical services.At a donation ceremony Wednesday in... View the full article