Ambulance offers hope in war-torn Somalia

[CBEMT]

MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN) -- Chaos and death on the streets of Mogadishu: unfortunately, it's nothing new in the Somali capital

Government forces are fighting against insurgents on this day in September in a bloody battle that leaves 30 dead. Dozens of wounded Somalis are taken out of the danger zone, some of them in the back of insurgents' pick-up trucks.

One of the trucks races through the streets, zig-zagging to the echoing booms of the ongoing shelling. The truck comes to an abrupt halt, stopping at a rare sight in the Somali capital -- an ambulance, waiting at the heart of the chaos to ferry the dead and the injured to the hospital.

The wounded are transferred onto the ambulance. People shout and run as the mortar attacks continue. One woman screams over and over for her son.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/29/somalia.ambulance/index.html

[Chief1C]

Now that would make a hell of a reality TV show!

[Dustdevil]

I'm betting those guys don't get a lot of sex in the back of their ambulance, unlike us here.

[Chief1C]

http://news.horseedmedia.net/2009/09/somalia-ambulance-worker-killed-in-mogadishu/

...Ambulance Worker Killed in Mogadishu.

[CBEMT]

I'm betting those guys don't get a lot of sex in the back of their ambulance, unlike us here.

And they manage to run the whole system without a single helicopter. What are they THINKING?

Now that would make a hell of a reality TV show!

Good luck hiring the camera crew.