Video: Canadian air ambulance shreds phone line

Video: Canadian air ambulance shreds phone line

Tail rotor shreds phone line; patient taken to hospital by ground ambulance

By EMS1 Staff

PITT MEADOWS, Canada — An air ambulance clipped a telephone line and was forced to make an emergency landing in a nearby field after its tail roter shredded the line.

A spectator at the scene captured the footage on camera and posted it to YouTube.

The air ambulance was picking up a patient who had fallen into a water-filled ditch while pruning trees. He was taken to hospital in a ground ambulance instead, according to Waypoint AirMed and Rescue Magazine.

Ind. ambulance, fire truck collide; 4 responders injured

Ind. ambulance, fire truck collide; 4 responders injured

The fire truck ended up on two wheels resting against a light pole

By Fox7

Trouble viewing the video? Download Flash player here

VINCENNES, Ind. — Four people are injured after a crash in Vincennes. Authorities say just before 2:30 P.M. Sunday, Vincennes Fire Department got a call about a structure fire with entrapment at an apartment in the 300 block of Broadway.

Officials say on the way to the scene, a Knox County ambulance and Vincennes firetruck collided at the intersection of 6th Street and Hart.

They say the fire truck ended up on two wheels resting against a light pole. Two EMS workers and two firefighters were transported to Good Samaritan Hospital with what appeared to be non life threatening injuries.

Indiana State Police were called out to reconstruct the scene.

At the scene of the fire, authorities say an 80-year-old man suffered burns and was taken to Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis. FOX 7 has a crew on the scene and will update you online and on FOX 7 News at 9:00.

Republished with permission from Fox7

2 Ark. medics who declared live woman dead will not appeal suspensions

Both medics are serving 34-day suspensions

The Associated Press

Related Article: 2 Ark. paramedics suspended after wrongly pronouncing woman dead Related content sponsored by:

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Two medics who mistakenly declared a woman dead who was alive will not appeal the suspension of their licenses, according to The Associated Press.

Little Rock paramedics Brandi Johnson and Pat Bajorek are serving 34-day suspensions given to them by the state Health Department, according to reports.

Both Johnson and Bajorek declared Pamela Harper dead while leading two separate ambulance crews when she was found in the yard of a Little Rock home.

However, a detective noticed she was breathing, which was later confirmed by the coroner. She was taken to a hospital but later died.

An autopsy found the cause of her death to be due to a drug and alcohol overdose. Allegedly, earlier care would not have saved her, according to the article.