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ambulance stories: 13 news summaries

Drunk Man Steals Ambulance, Leads Low-Speed Chase

No one harmed in brief incident

Oct 12, 09 1:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Most drunk people grab a cab home, but a 21-year-old Kansas man was charged yesterday with stealing an ambulance and leading police on a low-speed chase through downtown Lawrence. The ambulance had been left unattended while rescue workers responded to a medical emergency, the Lawrence Journal-World reports. After a... More »

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thief • Kansas • drunk driving • ambulance • car theft

 'Drunk' Hasselhoff 
 Rushed to Hospital 

Scared teen daughter calls her mom

Sep 21, 09 2:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - An apparently drunken David Hasselhoff was rushed to a California hospital by ambulance last night after his worried daughter called her mom, reports TMZ. Haley Hasselhoff, 17, was staying with her dad at his Encino home. Her mom, Pamela Bach, arranged for paramedics to collect the inebriated actor. The former... More »

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alcoholism • David Hasselhoff • hospital • substance abuse • Knight Rider • Baywatch • ambulance • paramedics

Ambulance Responds to Call at Gosselin Home

Elderly female relative takes nasty spill while Jon watches kids

Sep 6, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - An ambulance was called to the home of Jon and Kate Gosselin yesterday after a woman took a nasty fall and needed medical attention, Radar reports. “The police were called for EMS assistance," a police official said. “An elderly female fell. She was transported to a local... More »

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Pennsylvania • ambulance • Jon and Kate Plus 8 • Jon Gosselin • Kate Gosselin

 Firefighters Play 
 ER Docs to 
 Uninsured 

Medical calls have more than doubled since 1980

Sep 4, 09 9:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Operating in a poor area where many lack health insurance, a DC firehouse battles far more than just flames: Some 80% of its calls are for medical emergencies. Because it is believed to respond fastest, Washington’s fire department zooms to almost all the city’s emergency calls alongside EMS,... More »

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health care • health insurance • firefighters • primary care • emergency responders • Washington, DC • ambulance

(AP) - An emergency caller from Michael Jackson's home yesterday said he wasn't breathing or responding to efforts to revive him. The Los Angeles Fire Department released the audio of the 911 call today. The caller reported that Jackson—whose name he didn't use—was on a bed, wasn't breathing, and wasn't... More »

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entertainment • music • 911 call • death • cardiac arrest • Michael Jackson • UCLA Medical Center • ambulance • medical emergency • personal doctor

Demjanjuk Removed by Ambulance

US set to deport
alleged Nazi; Germany expects him tomorrow

May 11, 09 3:52 PM CDT
(AP) - Suspected Nazi death-camp guard John Demjanjuk was taken from his home by ambulance today as US immigration agents prepared to deport him to Germany. It was not clear where the ambulance was taking the 89-year-old Demjanjuk, who is wanted on a Munich arrest warrant that accuses him of 29,000... More »

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Germany • Poland • murder • appeal • deportation • Nazi • John Demjanjuk • ambulance • arrest warrant

Radio Dispatches Recount Bid to Save Richardson

Medics race to save star's life

Mar 28, 09 3:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Almost a week after family and friends bid their final goodbyes to Natasha Richardson, the Globe and Mail  examines radio exchanges between paramedics and 911 operators during the star’s last conscious hours. As she was being taken from her hotel room to the nearest hospital, vital signs were good,... More »

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New York • Liam Neeson • ambulance • ski accidents • Natasha Richardson

(Newser) - Natasha Richardson wasn’t admitted to the hospital until nearly 4 hours after she’d taken her fateful tumble, almost 3 hours later than the ski resort officials claimed Tuesday, the New York Times reports. Ambulance dispatch records show that the first paramedics to arrive at 1pm were waved off... More »

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ambulance • ski accidents • Natasha Richardson

Ambulance Was Turned Away After Richardson Accident

When ambulance was called again, actress 'wasn't in good shape'

Mar 19, 09 8:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Potentially life-saving paramedics were turned away before they could examine Natasha Richardson after the Canadian ski accident that claimed her life, reports the Globe and Mail. Ski patrollers had requested an ambulance after the actress stuck her head in a fall on a beginners slope at Mont Tremblant in Quebec,... More »

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Canada • skiing • actor • Liam Neeson • ambulance • ski accidents • Natasha Richardson • head trauma

updated

 Kennedy 
 Suffers 'Mild 
 Seizure' 

Hospital sends him home after 3 hours to watch prez debate

Sep 26, 08 6:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. Edward Kennedy was rushed to a hospital yesterday with a "mild seizure," his office said. But he returned to his Hyannis Port compound to watch the presidential debate after about 3 hours of treatment. A change in medication prompted the seizure, doctors said. The senator was diagnosed... More »

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Ted Kennedy • Cape Cod • brain cancer • ambulance

UPDATED

 149 Confirmed Dead
 in Spain Crash

Bodies too hot to touch after fiery disaster; 26 survive

Aug 20, 08 1:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Spanish government confirms that 149 people died when a Spanair jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Madrid's airport today, the AP reports. Only 26 survived the horrific crash, which tore the aircraft apart to the point that rescue workers said the wreckage didn’t look like a plane and... More »

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Spain • plane crash • death toll • airplane • disaster • ambulance • Spanair

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Reaction to Medication Put Winehouse in Hospital: Rep

Troubled singer to be released tomorrow after ambulance trip

Jul 28, 08 6:00 PM CDT
(AP) - Amy Winehouse was hospitalized this evening for a reaction to medication and was expected to be released in the morning, representatives for the Grammy-winning singer said. An ambulance took Winehouse from her north London home to University College Hospital, spokesman Chris Goodman said. "Amy Winehouse suffered a reaction to... More »

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celebrity • Amy Winehouse • emergency responders • hospitalization • ambulance

NYC Plans Organ-Recovery Ambulance

Proposal for quick harvesting raises thorny questions

May 24, 08 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - New York City is planning a “rapid-organ-recovery ambulance” that would collect the bodies of victims of sudden deaths to be used for organ transplants, hoping to ease a pressing need for donors, the Washington Post reports. But the idea has sparked controversy among health and bioethics experts, concerned over... More »

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health care • New York City • organ transplants • organ donation • ambulance

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