2013

The teams from Estonia, Moldavia, Slovenia, Poland and Lithuania competed against each other in Kiev from 22nd to 24th May 2013. Each team was made up of a medic, two nurses and a driver. The aim was to establish the paramedics’…

The Ministry of Transport and Highways in India has approved an official code for ambulances. Improved outfitting and increased safety while transporting patients who may receive appropriate treatment according to their condition while on…

The Hollywood star acted as a real hero, the protagonist of a providential intervention. Jim Walpole, a 77-year-old American, a former employee of General Motors, now retired, was on his way with his wife to Toronto in Canada, where…

45-year-old Tim Samaras, better known as "the storm chaser" died last week, swallowed by a twister that scooped him up with the power of a 260-kmh wind; the scientist was killed with his 20-year-old son and a friend, Carl Young, who were…

The following images show the World Rescue Challenge, which took place in Cork, in Ireland, in which teams from all over the world competed. The members of the Hampshire Fire and Rescue’s trauma team did especially well and won first…

International representatives recognise the skills that the Mexican Red Cross showed at the conclusion of their Toluca workshop. The Mexican town hosted the organizations of the International Red Cross and the Red Crescent of 19 countries…

For the first time the BBC will honour on television the heroes of Britain’s Emergency Services in an event, the BBC 999 Awards, which recognises the tireless work they do. Ever since the number 999 came into being, 75 years…

Massive damage in Prague and the surrounding area where the Moldova, the famous river that crosses the Golden City broke its banks, 5 people dead. The nightmare of the 1980 Prague flood appears to have come back to the minds of the citizens…

Slovenia is the former Yugoslav country that seemed to have best absorbed its new geo-political formation since the 1992 war and most people thought it was one of the European countries that had made real economic progress in recent times.…

In this round-up, dedicated fans of two wheels will discover the Hondas and BMWs that have been immortalised in cities around the world. From the UK to Holland to Japan, a rainbow of colours, the occasional embellishment allowed by one…