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Search results for "ambulance crashes" ...
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"33 Minutes to 34 Right"
When Continental Flight 1404 crashed during its landing at the Denver International Airport, it took ambulance responses teams 33 minutes to reach the crash site. KMGH-TV's investigation reveals critical problems with Denver's ambulance system and dispatch center, as well as with the city's overall preparedness for emergency response.
Tags: Denver International Airport; Continental Flight 1404; Denver Health Medical Center; plane crash
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Rescues Gone Wrong
The reporters investigated an alarming increase in air ambulance crashes. The found that the accidents were cause by a fatal mix of pilot error, industry carelessness and poor government oversight.
Tags: air ambulance; emergency calls; helicopters; fatal accidents
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Unsafe Saviors
This story looks at how there are no safeguards against accidents caused by ambulances. As this reporter investigates, the ambulances are not put through severe tests before they are put on the road, nor are the drivers given enough training. In fact, the investigation found that people have a higher risk of being harmed in a an ambulance crash than in other vehicle accidents.
Tags: ambulances; ambulance accidents; ambulance crashes; risk of accidents in ambulances; paramedics; hospitals; vehicle accidents
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Trying to avoid another Tiger Canyon tragedy
When a car careened off a mountain on the Washington-Oregon border, a confusion in which ambulance service should respond led to a major delay in the victims getting help. The victim died eleven days later from injuries sustained during the crash.
Tags: ambulance; territory; accidents; automobiles
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New York Post reveals that someone had entered a sex game into the $1.8 million master computer that controls the city's 350 ambulances; the sex software could contain a virus that would cause the main computer to crash, breaking the city's computer link with ambulances, October and December 1989. *
Tags: Nicholson