Stolen Ambulance
Ambulances are regularly stolen from hospital emergency departments and incidents. Locking the ambulance is an absolute duty and should be a policy for every agency, as well as a habit for every EMS provider, like wearing a seatbelt.
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The teen, diagnosed with schizophrenia, struck man with a brick and then stole an ambulance, which she later crashed
The vehicle was stolen while Dallas Fire Rescue was dealing with a crash involving a pedestrian
The man was caught and arrested less than one mile away from the hospital
Destiny McNeil is charged with stealing an ambulance and leading police on a chase in 2015
The EMT jumped out of the moving vehicle unharmed
When a man approached ambulance crew members at the station, the crew notified dispatch
Sunday鈥檚 incident comes less than two weeks after the woman led police on a chase in a stolen ambulance that went through the city
Police used a tracking system inside the vehicle to pinpoint the fleeing driver as she careened through city streets, slamming into several vehicles
The man remembers mowing his lawn after drinking beer and taking a triple dose of his anti-depressant
The Texas man鈥檚 escape from handcuffs and the patrol car ended after he crashed the ambulance
The man stole the vehicle after reportedly jumping out of a motel window that was 10 feet off the ground
An ambulance was damaged after a woman stole it from a hospital and led police on a chase; the department had no policy in place to prevent ambulance theft
The woman stole the ambulance from a hospital after paramedics left the vehicle to take a patient into the emergency room
Dashcam video captured two young men joking, checking their phones and smoking while driving in the stolen vehicle
A man discharged from a S.C. hospital jumped into an ambulance and drove away with a paramedic still in the patient care compartment
Geneen Richard, 41, is alleged to have pulled out a gun during an ambulance ride and fired three times
The woman was being transported to the hospital for unknown injuries
Two armed men demanded the EMS crew鈥檚 cellphones and told them to run
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The 21-year-old was arrested after a police dog was used to track a man seen running from the scene
Fire chief says strain on responders is a growing problem, mainly caused by young people drinking
The patient, who was in respiratory distress, was transported to a hospital after another ambulance was called
A man driving an SUV was seriously injured when the ambulance crashed into his car
The 18-year-old later told police he had taken a mix of MDMA and cocaine
The man was arrested for stealing the vehicle while medics assisted the victims of a car crash
The man stole the vehicle and then broke into a woman鈥檚 house, where he was later bit by a police dog
The cops spun out the out of control ambulance at the start of the famous Giants Despair Hillclimb car race
An unknown man reportedly jumped into the vehicle and drove off while two EMTs assisted a patient
A medic shoved him out of the ambulance and firefighters wrested him to the ground
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