We were a little behind the eight ball, because we didn't think the storm was coming this way. We had buses, ambulances, a variety of vehicles.
Quotes about ambulances (16 Quotes)
But for us, (the response times) are good. The guys in the fire engines say the ambulances are responding faster.
On the morning of Sept. 11, Read awoke to the sound of his mother's tears. After learning what had happened in New York City, he joined a task force of rescue units that began arriving from New Jersey within a half-hour of when the North Tower was struck. Read reached Liberty State Park, 15 minutes after the first tower collapsed. At the scene, rescue crews created a staging area and field hospital with other units. The group included 250 ambulances, 100 surgeons, 50 paramedics, 50 nurses and 350 emergency medical technicians. It was an impressive staging area, ... We had everything we needed. Organization just sort of happened.
The levy is for ambulances, not for personnel. Our emergency medical services are dependent upon volunteers,
I think the deployment strategy we have right now for our ambulances isn't the optimum model. The current system we have is a very good one, but with the status quo there is a problem in the outlying areas. If you have a critical emergency in some spots in the county you could be waiting a long time and in some cases, that could be too long.
You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow.
They commandeered our ambulances and stole them for four days. It cost us over 90,000 in billing to the government, and they probably hurt some people because they didn't respond to our orders to come back. They decided to do their own thing.
We thought it was an automobile accident and we looked out the window and we saw the tail section of a Southwest airliner laying across the street, on Central Avenue. People were running and ambulances were coming down the street.
We have five ambulances evacuating coastal patients, ... We staffed five extra ambulances to handle that, and evacuations will continue (today).
My concern basically to start with was the ambulances coming down off the interstate and getting to the hospital in the quickest time.
When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.
There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets and all of the noises of San Francisco. Mostly, though, there were the voices. Whispering to him. Reminding him of the dark things he had done all of the little things he had forgotten, all of the big things he had tried to forget. Mostly they reminded him of his biggest secret, a betrayal of trust and friendship long ago. He squeezed his eyes shut as if that could somehow keep the voices away.
Our bid of more ambulances and response times 1 12 minutes faster than our competitor would have a direct impact on the safety of Scottsdale residents.
Her mother heard the ambulances and sirens and she had a bad feeling, and her daughter went and just had to see her father laying on the ground. Very tragic.
I do not participate in a sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.
My crew and I airlifted nearly 100 people from the roof of a building and onto a field where ambulances and buses were waiting for them. Ten of those who we rescued couldn't even walk my crewmen had to carry them.