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Saved from a heart attack during the filming of Helicopter Heroes
A normal working day at Wakefield’s Yorkshire Ambulance Service, in the UK, with all staff carrying out their usual duties, while BBC television cameras spied on them for the television series "Helicopter Heroes", a documentary on…
Routine exercise turns into a life-saving operation
An exercise involving pilots of the HMS Search and Rescue turned into a real rescue operation.
On a two-day training exercise in the picturesque Cowal Peninsula in the Scottish Highlands, the crew were accompanied by photographers from the…
A trip down memory lane discovering ambulance history. Models from the early days of modern times
"Ambulancias" were born of military necessity in Spain around 1400 and were the first health teams to follow combatants.
They stayed as such until the end of the 18th century, evolving across the centuries thanks to the drive of people like…
Conclusion of the 3rd edition of the Chinese EMS Drivers' Competition
This is the first time that the Hangzhou Emergency Medical Center has hosted this prestigious competition involving top Chinese ambulance drivers.
84 candidates and 28 national teams took part in the event, which was organised by the…
Hangzhou Emergency Medical Center, a cutting-edge center in the Zhejiang province
The Hangzhou Emergency Medical Center was originally called the Hangzhou Medical Care Station and is located in the Eastern coastal province of the People’s Republic of China.
It provides the citizens of Hangzhou with pre-hospital…
Kiev hosts the 5th EMS championship: 38 paramedic teams compete
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’…
New Delhi: Ministry of Transport approves ambulance code
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…
John Malkovich hero of a life-saving rescue. And not on a film set!
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…
Major exercise in Toluca, Mexico, to conclude the international workshop on emergency services
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…
The BBC One 999 Award, honouring British heroes from the Emergency services, becomes a TV programme
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…