Roya Quirk’s pulled muscle turned out to be a near-fatal blood clot
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Monthly Archives: April 2017
Video: Volunteer firefighter-EMT rescues girl who fell out of bus
The bus was driving down a highway when the back door swung open
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Suit: Ambulance company denied rest breaks to paramedics, EMTs
The breaks are required every four hours for non-salaried employees
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Wash. firefighters, paramedics to get ballistic vests, helmets
Two sets will be kept with each medic unit and three sets will be kept with each fire unit
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Power Ranger window washers thrill kid patients at hospital
One girl battling cancer flexed her muscles for them through the windows of the oncology unit
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Opioid, heroin overdoses reach 'crisis level' in Md.
Overdoses now rank with cancer, strokes and heart attacks among the top killers in the state
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Survey: Majority of responders face workplace mental health challenges
Over 50 percent of responders believe their supervisor will treat them differently if they bring up their mental health concerns
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Children playing in bounce house at birthday party shot
The incident wounded a 3-year-old boy, a 5-year-old girl and an adult
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Woman distracted by phone hit by train, badly hurt
Officers tied two tourniquets around the woman’s most severe injuries so that paramedics could get her into an ambulance as quickly as possible
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20 children killed when minibus hits truck in South Africa
The victims were between 5 and 10 years old; authorities are investigating the cause of the crash
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