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3 unusual facts about Ambulance


Alkè ATX 100 E

The ATX 100 E is an open topped Ambulance designed to transport a single person for short distances.

Midnight Surprise

Backing vocals were performed by regular collaborators Emmy The Great and members of Tilly And The Wall, as well as members of Son, Ambulance, and other musicians from Omaha, Nebraska, where the song was recorded with producer Mike Mogis.

Shelford Girls' Grammar

Robyn Christine Robinson AM - President and South Pacific Liaison Officer of the Critical Incident Stress Management Foundation Australia; Former Clinical Director of the Victorian Ambulance Crisis Counselling Unit; Former Senior Lecturer/Deputy Director of the Soc.


15 Field Ambulance

15 (Edmonton) Field Ambulance is affiliated with 2995 Medical Company RCACC, based in Lac La Biche, Alberta.

2009 Manx Grand Prix

The musician Jake Drake-Brockman, a former member with the Liverpool group Echo & the Bunnymen, was involved in a fatal road traffic accident near Orrisdale North while visiting the Isle of Man for the Manx Grand Prix when the vintage BSA motorcycle he was riding was in collision with a converted ambulance.

Air horn

Air horns are widely employed as vehicle horns, installed on large semi-trailer trucks, fire trucks, trains, and some ambulances as a warning device, and on ships as a signalling device.

Albert L. Vreeland

He attended the public schools and was employed as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross in 1918 and 1919.

Alfred Moore Scales

With General Pender at his side, Scales rode back to Virginia in an ambulance, and after being left at Winchester, he recovered enough from his wounds to be returned to service however, General Pender died from his wounds.

Applefest

The festival donates $5,000 per year on average to groups such as Ambulance Corps, local libraries, village parks, the Food Shelf, Camp Good Days and Special Times, the Historical Society, Braddock Bay Raptor Research, and other community center projects.

Army Medical Services Museum

The collections on display include uniforms and insignia, medical, dental and veterinary equipment, ambulances, an ambulance train ward coach and a large medal collection including 23 of the 29 Victoria Crosses awarded to the Army Medical Services.

Arthur J. Nascarella

Among his notable film credits include a corrupt cop in Cop Land (1997), a hypocritical ambulance captain in Bringing Out The Dead (1999) and a fed-up casino boss in The Cooler; he has also appeared in Clockers (1995), He Got Game (1998), Enemy of the State (1998), World Trade Center (2006), and Solitary Man (2009).

Australian women during World War I

Hundreds of other Australian trained nurses served overseas with organisations including the British nursing services, Red Cross, St John Ambulance and the Australian Voluntary Hospital.

Beverly Hills Post Office

For example, when actress Demi Moore needed an ambulance in January 2012, Beverly Hills and Los Angeles 9-1-1 operators used over two minutes to determine jurisdiction for her home.

Combination car

A combination car was a vehicle built upon a (usually Cadillac) "professional car" chassis which could be employed either as a hearse or as an ambulance, and had the capability of being swapped between those roles without much difficulty.

Denham, Western Australia

Emergency services are operated entirely by volunteers (Fire Brigade, Ambulance, State Emergency Service (SES) and Marine Rescue).

East Adams Rural Hospital

Adams County Public Hospital District #2 operates the hospital in Ritzville, as well as Medical Clinics in Ritzville and Washtucna, and is associated with the Ritzville, Lind, and Washtucna Volunteer Ambulance Associations.

Edinburgh of the Seven Seas

The town is home to the island's emergency services with one ambulance (Toyota Hilux operated by Camogli Hospital), fire engine (Land Rover Defender with small ladder) and police car (Land Rover Series).

Emergency Call Ambulance

In the game, you take the role of a Chicago Paramedic, trying to save several people, and take them to the nearby hospital, driving in your ambulance.

Emergency medical services in Italy

Emergency medical services are under Public Health Authorities control in each Italian Region; the ambulance subsystem is provided by a variety of different sources.

Farman F.400

This plane was used in Zaragoza during the Spanish Civil War as a transport, communication and ambulance aircraft.

Flying Wild

While pals Skinny (Donald Haines), Danny Graham (Bobby Jordan), Peewee (David Gorcey), Algy Reynolds (Eugene Francis), and Scruno (Sunshine Sammy Morrison) all work at the Reynolds Aviation Company, which is run by Algy's father (Herbert Rawlinson), Muggs (Leo Gorcey), the only one of the kids who refuses to work, spends his time flirting with an ambulance nurse named Helen (Joan Barclay).

Fogliano Redipuglia

As points of interest, famed WWII German officer Erwin Rommel fought in this battle as a junior officer, and American author Ernest Hemingway drove an ambulance for the Italian Army (see A Farewell to Arms).

Godfrey Edward Arnold

His case studies at the Voice and Speech Ambulance of the Vienna Ear Clinic at the Vienna General Hospital led to a fundamental publication describing traumatic and constitutional disorders of voice and speech (Die traumatischen und konstitutionellen Störungen der Stimme und Sprache, Vienna 1948).

Grady EMS

With the municipal takeover, the ambulance service became a part of the hospitals security department and Tom Moreland was appointed as the first security department director who also oversaw ambulance operations.

Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash

The first emergency response arrived at 8:22 am with the fire brigade, ambulance and police services being assisted by doctors and a medical unit of the United States Air Force.

Helicopter Heroes

They have flown more than 2,000 missions in the Yorkshire Air Ambulance's two MD900 Explorer helicopters.

I Remember Me

The interviews included movie director Blake Edwards, United States Olympic soccer gold medalist Michelle Akers, and a high school senior in Connecticut, bedridden for two years who is transported by ambulance to his high school graduation.

J. Marion Sims

Under the patronage of Napoleon III, Sims organized the American-Anglo Ambulance Corps, which treated wounded soldiers from both sides at the battle of Sedan.

Jimmy Hare

During World War I he documented American, British, Canadian, and Italian soldiers, St Dunstan's home for blind soldiers, the Greek harbor town of Thessaloniki, the military hospital at the Hall of Mechanics at the Grand Palais in Paris, people fleeing Antwerp, funerals of the dead from the RMS Lusitania, and the American Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly-sur-Seine, among other subjects.

Len Reynolds

As news of Len's death spread around the village, Len's body was driven away in an ambulance whilst Katherine Jenkins sang him out, although as she was closing the pageant, unaware of the death that had occurred in the village.

Mann Egerton

In the Second World War, they built vehicle bodies for the Government especially the Austin K2/Y ambulance.

Mercy Flights

In 1993, Mercy Flights acquired Rogue Ambulance, expanding its service area to include the communities of White City, Eagle Point, and Shady Cove.

ORCON

Operational Research CONsultancy (ORCON), a UK government initiative to improve ambulance response times

Orrisdale North

The musician Jake Drake-Brockman, a former member with the Liverpool group Echo & the Bunnymen, was involved in a fatal road traffic accident at Orrisdale North on 1 September 2009 while visiting the Isle of Man for the Manx Grand Prix when the vintage BSA motor-cycle he was riding was in collision with a converted ambulance.

Patrick Argüello

Argüello was dead by the time he and Khaled were in the ambulance en route to Hillingdon Hospital, after pilot Uri Bar-Lev refused orders to return to Israel due to his concern for the wounded steward.

Porl King

On 11 September 2007, King suffered a heart attack in Leeds and was taken by ambulance to Leeds General Infirmary, where he survived and was put on an eight week recovery programme.

Royal Oman Police

The Ambulance Unit, which has a fleet of modern ambulances with modern high – tech medical equipment, covers the Governorate of Muscat up to Batinah Region, as well as the main road from the wilayat of Barka to Khatmat Malahah on the UAE border.

Sadie Bonnell

She drove an ambulance in 1916 during some of the first air raids London experienced.

Scottish Ambulance Service

The aircraft is based at Perth Airport and tasking is from the SAS ambulance control centre at Cardonald.

Sentara Healthcare

Sentara's air ambulance Nightingale, named for Florence Nightingale, began in late-February 1982 as the region's first air ambulance and the 38th air medical program in the country.

Surgeon Simulator 2013

Multiple extra modes are available after completion of the early operations, such as performing an operation while inside an ambulance where surgical instruments bounce around at random, and operating in space where the zero-g environment causes all the instruments to free-float.

Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance

The Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance is an organisation providing emergency medical services through the provision of a helicopter air ambulance covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in the South East of England.

West Midlands CARE Team

They drive the team's response vehicle and would usually fulfil the role of Ambulance Incident Officer of arrival: co-ordinating the resources on scene and liaising with the WMAS control room.

Wild Bill Hagy

Hagy grew up in Sparrows Point, Maryland and drove an ambulance, an ice cream truck, and eventually a cab until he retired in 2004.

Yorkshire Air Ambulance

The Air Ambulance is also the subject of BBC One programme Helicopter Heroes, which follows the crew during a typical working day.


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