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Off duty lifeguards saves a man who suffered a heart attack at a restaurant

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 21 Mar

Four off duty lifeguards were at the Blue Water Seafood restaurant in Ocean Beach California on Sunday night March 1 when a 57 year old man suffered a heart attack while having his meal near the off duty lifeguards who were having...

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Paramedics rescue a raccoon who had a jar had its head stuck in a soup can

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 18 Aug

Employees of the Little Rock's Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services (MEMS) named Stewart Uzzell and his partner were getting inside their ambulance early Sunday morning July 13 when they saw a small raccoon running down the...

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Teen and her mother thank paramedics who saved her life

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 12 May 25

Celina who did not give out her last name due to privacy reason was 14 years of age last year when she collapsed in her mom's home on Monday September 23 due to low blood sugar was low. Celina's mother Barbara took her daughter...

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Tennessee National Guard rescues an injured hiker

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 27 Mar 25

Members of the Tennessee National Guard responded to an emergency call from a hiker who was located in the Great Smoky National Park which is located in Louisville Tennessee this past weekend. Paramedics of the Guardsmen came to...

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Gender abuse? I don't think so

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382068) • Rockingham, Australia 11 May 24

The photo doesn’t relate to the discussion. Firstly, two pieces of information: Half our news reports lately are about domestic/gender violence which in most cases has the woman as the victim. There have been a number of...

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Van Buren police sergeant rescues a man trapped inside of a burning home

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 9 May 24

A male who was inside of a burning home in Paw Paw Michigan home who could have been rubbed out had he not called for help on Tuesday morning overnight. A Van Buren County Sergeant who answered the emergency call whose name was...

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Nine year old girl honored for saving the life of her mom in Illinois

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 17 Mar 23

Aria Lemon who is a nine year old girl who lives in Aurora Ilinois was recently honored by the Aurora City Council on Tuesday evening with the Mayor's Award Of Excellence. Aria is being praised by the 911 dispatcher who was...

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2 paramedics rewarded in Oklahoma for rescuing a family after a tornado hit

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 14 Mar 23

EMS STAT official plans to award Norman Oklahoma paramedics Megan Thompkins who is female and Dustin McCoy for doing their part to rescue Frances Tabler and her three children who were trapped inside of their home that was...

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Puppies rescued by firefighters and paramedics in a house fire

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 12 Nov 21

Fort Smith firefighters and paramedics did a superb job on Thursday morning to save a litter of puppies from passing away in a house fire that was likely caused by heating lamps in the back pouch used to keep chickens warm. The...

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Right place at the right time for a diabetic grandmother in Boca Raton

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 28 Feb 20

I guess you can it fate being on the side of Karen Baker who is a diabetic 1 for 14 years that one of her five granddaughters was home to take the actions to contact a neighbor to call 911 when her grandmother collapsed from a...

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Teenager risks her life to rescue her younger brother in a fire

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 16 May 19

A fire that began on Thursday morning in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood in Chicago destroyed a two story home. What makes this story kind of bittersweet is that 9 out of the 10 members who lived in the home plus two dogs...

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Firemen in Our Family

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40846) • Laguna Woods, California 6 Dec 18

Many of the younger men in our family have had successful careers as firemen / paramedics. My husband's nephew is now retired from being a fire captain in one of California's coastal cities. He has three sons and two of them are...

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Kansas City first responders reunite with the baby they helped deliver

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 2 Oct 18

Talk about the real heroes in the Kansas City Missouri region who assisted first time parents Jonathan Riley and his wife Jacqueline Riley when the mom to be was going to give birth in her home on September 21. Jonathan made the...

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Shot Man Laughed At By Paramedics - and dies !

BusyBoss @Luap1050 (878) 4 Dec 17

A young man goes to the aid of an older man who is being taunted by 2 thugs and is shot . Paramedics " (Reportedly - not confirmed yet ) , left him on the ground for 20 minutes telling him he was faking and to get up, that he...

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Diary Thursday 1st December 2016

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 1 Dec 16

The last lap to Xmas begins as children everywhere open the first door on their advent calendars and I open my front door to venture forth to work an hour and a half before dawn. Again, there was not much to do at work and we...

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The Paramedic Was Rushed to the Hospital

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40846) • Laguna Woods, California 3 Apr 16

So much of what I have written lately has been serious, I thought it would be nice to share a funny family story. @jaboUK told a story about the first time she rode in an ambulance. I have never ridden in one, but one of our...

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Wonder if it's true Natasha Richardson turned away the paramedics?

Fortunata @Fortunata (1135) • United States 19 Mar 09

What a shame, if it's true. I don't know if it would have made a difference in saving her life, but, blunt force trauma to the head is nothing to laugh off. Read that her autopsy results showed a blood clot in her brain. When I...

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ice

Trace86 @Trace86 (5030) • United States 6 Aug 08

I got this in my email today. Do you think they really do this? Have you programmed ICE into your phone? ****Apparently this is a standard procedure all paramedics follow at the scene of an accident when they come across...

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Had To Call 911 For Dad

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 23 Apr 08

Well as most here know I am my 83 year old fathers caregiver. he suffers from CHF (Congestive Heart Failure) He does not exercise and is always very wobbly when he walks etc. I have DDD ([i]Dengenerative Disc...

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This sort of thing makes me so angry

MarkyB21 @MarkyB21 (1545) 1 Nov 07

I've just read the following article: "Paramedics in Ashton-in-Makerfield near Wigan were pelted with stones by three youths as they tried to save the life of an elderly man who had suffered a heart attack while playing bowls....

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