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Mass Casualty Drill to Test Emergency Response at Maryland Hospitals

On Thursday, April 26th from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 pm Civista Medical Center along with 13 Maryland hospitals will participate in the Sisyphus Field Training Exercise, conducted by the 11th Air Wing, Joint Base Andrews. This is a full-scale (realistic) exercise to test the region’s ability to respond to a mass casualty incident and coordinate […]

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Dozens of ambulances dispatched to SEPTA bus crash on MacDade Blvd

COLLINGDALE – An investigation is continuing into a crash involving a passenger car and a SEPTA bus that sent 14 people to three area hospitals Friday afternoon, police said. The crash occurred on MacDade Boulevard, near Willows Avenue, at 12:45 p.m, police Chief Robert Adams said. According to Adams, a silver Chevy Impala headed eastbound […]

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Seguin students injured after school bus crash with big rig

  SEGUIN – Bits of burnt homework could be seen from the open emergency door, left ajar after a freshman football player helped fellow students off his burning school bus. “At this time, we have zero fatalities. We are very blessed when it comes to that,” said State Trooper Jason Reyes. Bus #2 was headed to […]

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Prince George and Anne Arundel MABs respond to 3 school bus crash

“At about 3:45 pm today a crash involving 3 school buses occurred in the 7600 block of Croom Road near Route 301 in Upper Marlboro. The buses has just departed Fredrick Douglas High School and were loaded with students going home. A low speed rear end collision occurred involving the 3 buses while in line […]

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12 injured in Brooklyn bus accident

Twelve people were injured in a bus accident in Brooklyn today, fire officials said. The collision occurred shortly after 10 a.m. after a car blew through a red light on Avenue J and rammed into a B11 bus, said MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz. At least three of the dozen people injured were passengers on the […]

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School bus carrying children rolls over near Quincy, multiple injuries reported

QUINCY, Wash.– One person was transported by MedStar to a Quincy hospital after a school bus overturned. It happened around 8: 20 a.m. Monday on Highway 281, just south of Quincy. Kyle Forman of the Grant County Sheriff’s Office said the bus driver veered off the road, overcorrected and rolled off the highway. The bus belongs to the Quincy […]

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1 dead, others hurt in Pa. school bus, truck crash

(CBS/AP) ROCKWOOD, Pa. – State Police say the driver of a soft drink truck was killed when he collided with a school bus carrying high school students in western Pennsylvania. Cpl. Mark Kraynick said the driver, who was not identified, was declared dead at the scene after the accident on Route 281 near Rockwood about […]

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Region III Medical Ambulance Bus Visits Sinai

Last month Sinai Hospital coordinated with the Howard County Fire Department to host a site visit to determine the sufficient clearance that is needed for both on-site parking and safe navigation of the bus medical ambulance through campus driveways. The site visit was done to provide ER-7 staff the opportunity to tour the bus.  The visit was attended […]

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Fire Prompts Evacuation Of Senior Complex

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. — Marlborough fire crews evacuated about 100 residents from a senior housing complex on Main Street early Tuesday, sending four of them to the hospital as a precaution, although they were expected to be OK. Read more: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/30616945/detail.html#ixzz1ovvxtdbz

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