A TransCare ambulance rolled on its side when a driver ran a red light and slammed into the rig, the Tampa Police Department reports. The 8:46 a.m. crash happened Sunday as the ambulance was heading west on East Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, the Tampa Bay...
The department will roll the system out over time into 26 trucks that experience the highest call volume. If successful, it will investigate equipping the whole fleet.
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Fire Department's Fast Response Vehicle (FRV) program is expanding. The department now has four FRV’s in service, providing a flexible, multi-mission resource to respond to fire and emergency medical service calls. The firefighter/paramedics...
ST. LOUIS – No one was hurt when a St. Louis Fire Department ambulance was hit during a drive-by-shooting this weekend, according to a report. It happened around 3:15 p.m. in the city’s Carr Square neighborhood, KSDK-TV reports. St. Louis police told the station a...
By Aditya Shekhar The advent of hybrid-style engine/ambulances or transport-capable apparatuses took the fire vehicle world by storm a few years ago, garnering a lot of positive and negative attention. Supporters of the concept of a hybrid engine/ambulance...
HOMER TOWNSHIP, Ill. – There people were hurt, one seriously, after an ambulance rollover in suburban Chicago. The crash involved a Superior ambulance and a Volkswagen Passat on Interstate 355 at 6 a.m., police told patch.com. The car was stopped in the shoulder when...
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – Several people were hurt after an ambulance and a Lyft collided last week in New York, according to a report. The Daily Freeman reports the crash involved a Mobile Life Support Services ambulance that was transporting a person complaining of leg...
FRANKLIN, N.J. - At least one person was hurt when a Robert Wood Johnson Ambulance Service rig slammed into a brick home in New Jersey, according to reports. The crash took place on Hamilton Street between Franklin Boulevard and Shevchenko Avenue, according to a...
CAAS-GVS V2.0 is now published with an effective date of July 1, 2019. The CAAS-GVS team is already planning for V3.0, which is scheduled to start development in 2021 and be effective in 2022.
As CAAS prepared for the release of GVS V2.0 in July 2019, the newly developed GVS Remount Standard that is included as part of the updated V2.0 document stands out as a major development in enhancing the safety, quality, and durability of remounted ambulances as the most rapidly growing segment of the emergency vehicle market.
PADUCAH, Ky.—Several people were hurt when a Ballard County Ambulance Service van and a minivan collided early Monday. The crash happened just after 12:30 a.m. on U.S. 60 and New Hold Road, according to KFVS-TV. The driver of the ambulance told police she was driving...
Ian Blanchard remembers his last day working in the back of an ambulance well. It was the day his career caring for patients one-on-one came to an early and unplanned end. “I was stepping over some cables that ran from the stretcher to a monitor on the side counter,...
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