In the past week there have been a couple of EMS crashes that have made the news. The first crash is from Maryland on Friday, August 27. Captain Oscar Garcia, spokesperson for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue, says the ambulance had just refueled after dropping off a patient at Shady Grove Hospital and was heading back to Station 3 when for some reason, the ambulance went off the road and down a hill into a ravine on Falls Road near Liberty Lane. [1] Elsewhere it was reported that the crash was a rollover – MOI OMG Panic! Double Panic! Get Me A Helicopter, Yesterday !!!11!!!! A Rollover! The four firefighters had minor injuries and were taken to the hospital to be checked out, but they are expected to be ok. The car failed to stop and left the scene. [2] It seems that somebody on scene decided to actually assess the patients, rather than triage them according to Mechanism Of Idiocy . The second crash, this morning, did not have such a positive an outcome. The Air Evac Lifeteam helicopter was flying to pick up a traffic accident victim when it went down near the Scotland community in Van Buren County at about 4:30 a.m., Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford said. [3] Air Evac has experienced several fatal crashes in recent years. In 2008, an Air Evac helicopter crashed in an Indiana cornfield killing three people. In 2007, another three-member crew was killed when an Air Evac helicopter crashed in Colbert County, Ala. In 2006, an Air Evac helicopter crashed in Gentry in northwest Arkansas, killing the three-member crew. Last month, an Air Evac helicopter made a forced landing near Tulsa, Okla., after the aircraft’s hydraulics failed. No one was hurt. (This version corrects to delete information on a crash in western Tennessee; that helicopter did not belong to Air Evac.) [3] At least the patient was not yet on board. There is no information provided about what kind of injuries the patient was being flown for – that is assuming the patient actually was injured and not being flown for MOI (Mechanism Of Idiocy) by a protocol monkey .

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