Yep-
Like the quote that a reporter used in an article about me - we could have
an arm hanging off and we would insist we were fine. That is part of the
problem rescuers never want to be a patient even if it kills us.
Be Safe
Bill


>From: iiovelife <no_reply@yahoogroups.com>
>Reply-To: emsfirepoliceptsd@yahoogroups.com
>To: emsfirepoliceptsd@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [EMS Fire Police PTSD] Re: Ohio Ambulance Crash Kills 5
>Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:03:38 -0000
>
>this story was very tragic, i think it should be investigated why
>there were no stop signs for cross traffic - here in nj there are
>no "uncontrolled" intersections - other then circles - all
>intersections have to have at least a stop sign to control traffic
>
>back when i was working the ambulance we had one of our rigs
>totalled - luckily neither of our EMTs was seriously injured. our
>rig was stopped at a stop sign heading back from the hospital 2 towns
>over from us - it was winter and we had recently had a bad storm so
>the roads were still slick and there were 3-8 foot snow banking on
>the side of the roads - someone coming the opposite way was going way
>too fast an then slammed thier brakes - they slid thru the
>intersection hit the drives front fender full speed and then skidded
>downt he side of the rig - shoving the rig sideways into a 4 foot
>snow bank - lucily there was no one in the back of the rig - only the
>driver and other emt in the front passanger seat - the passanger got
>a concusion from the windshield - both ended up crawling out the
>passanegr door window because neither could fit thrut he pass thru to
>the back door - they then went around the back grabbed the backboard
>and package the drive of the car who was ejected thru thier hatchback
>and had him packaged and ready for the responding ambulance crew -
>then being the stubborn EMT's they were both tried to refuse
>treatment for themselves - which did not last long after they tried
>to call us for a ride back to the station and we told them we would
>not come get them until the hosptial cleared them...
>
>--- In emsfirepoliceptsd@yahoogroups.com, "Bill G" <magiclt@...>
>wrote:
> >
> >
>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/21/national/printable3085151.sh
> > tml
> >
> >
> > Ohio Ambulance Crash Kills 5
> >
> > VAN WERT, Ohio, July 21, 2007
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
>--
> > ------
> > ----
> > (AP) An ambulance headed to a hospital was broadsided by a
> > semitrailer at a
> > rural intersection and caught fire Friday night, killing three
> > emergency
> > medical technicians and two patients, the State Highway Patrol said.
> >
> > The patients were being treated for injuries from an earlier car
> > wreck when
> > their ambulance was struck in Crane Township, about 65 miles
> > southwest of
> > Toledo.
> >
> > A fourth Antwerp Emergency Medical Services worker, Matt McDougall,
> > 31, of
> > Antwerp, and the driver of the semitrailer, Gerald Chapman Jr., 54,
>of
> > Bryant, Ind., were taken to a hospital for treatment, the patrol
> > said. Their
> > conditions were not immediately available.
> >
> > The crash remained under investigation. The ambulance was traveling
> > south on
> > a county road that had stop signs posted for north-south traffic,
>said
> > patrol Lt. Shawn Davis. No stop signs were posted for the
>semitrailer
> > heading east, Davis said.
> >
> > Authorities have not said whether the ambulance's emergency sirens
>and
> > lights were turned on.
> >
> > "It's very sad. Very tragic," Antwerp Village Council President
>Ronald
> > Farnsworth told The (Toledo) Blade. "Right now, we need all the
> > prayers we
> > can get. Right now we're grieving."
> >
> > Several dozen fire and emergency workers gathered at the village's
> > fire hall
> > with a pastor Friday night.
> >
> > "They aren't in very good shape right now," Farnsworth said. The
> > village
> > planned to arrange for counseling, he said.
> >
> > Killed in the accident were EMS workers Sammy Smith, 64; Heidi
> > McDougall,
> > 31; and Kelly Rager, 25. All were from Antwerp.
> >
> > The patients killed were identified as Robert Wells, 64, and
>Armelda
> > Wells,
> > 60, both of Hicksville.
> >
>
>