`` Oh, I forgot to say that if one is taken to the funny house in the funny wagon, he is removed to a mental institution in an ambulance.

It is especially hard for him when he visits a victim in the person's home, because he knows that he must immediately call for an ambulance and have the person removed from the house.

Somerset County Council is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education, social services, the library, roads, public transport, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning, although fire, police and ambulance services are provided jointly with other authorities through the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, Avon and Somerset Constabulary and the South Western Ambulance Service.

In most countries however, civil defense is a government-managed, volunteer-staffed organisation, separate from the fire brigade and the ambulance service.

In Ireland, the Civil Defence is still very much an active organisation and is occasionally called upon for its Auxiliary Fire Service and ambulance / rescue services when emergencies such as flash flooding occur and require additional manpower.

Amongst enthusiasts, the 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor hearse is considered one of the most desirable due to its especially ornate styling and appearances in feature films, notably an ambulance version ( Ecto-1 ) in the movie Ghostbusters.

The territory has nevertheless maintained a Government Flying Service, formerly the Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force, that is responsible for search and rescue operations, air ambulance services, and other air services for the Hong Kong Government.

Similarly, in US slang, " meat-wagon " is used to refer to an ambulance

In the same example as above if a health care system buys the ambulance services from their service suppliers is an example of vertical buying.

A second distinct problem for an IP phone is the lack of a ' fixed address ' which can impact the provision of emergency services such as police, fire or ambulance, should someone call for them.

Preliminary assessment of injuries is usually done by the first ambulance crew on scene, with this role being assumed by the first Notarzt arriving at the scene.

Typically, every ambulance is equipped with a folder or bag with coloured ribbons or triage tags.

* 26 January: A Hamas member is shot by the Israeli army at a checkpoint in Ramallah and dies of his wounds while an ambulance is denied access for 45 minutes.

It is a bad idea to use any coded squelch system to hide interference issues in systems with life-safety or public-safety uses such as police, fire, search and rescue or ambulance company dispatching.

Their key feature is that all personnel are trained not only in ambulance ( EMT ) care, but as a firefighter and a peace officer ( police function ).

: Hospitals may provide their own ambulance service as a service to the community, or where ambulance care is unreliable or chargeable.

: This special type of ambulance is provided by a charity for the purpose of taking sick children or adults on trips or vacations away from hospitals, hospices or care homes where they are in long term care.

These ambulance care givers are generally professionals or paraprofessionals and in some countries their use is controlled through training and registration.

Some jurisdictions separate the ' driver ' and ' attendant ' functions, employing ambulance driving staff with no medical qualification ( or just a first aid certificate ), whose job is to drive the ambulance.

In 1914 Marvingt was drawn by Émile Friant with her proposed air ambulance.

He was taken to the hospital by the North Providence ambulance.

Medical and ambulance services are provided by the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

His manager, Margo Lewis, called 911 and airport security and Bo was immediately taken by ambulance to Creighton University Medical Center and admitted to the Intensive-care unit, where he stayed for several days.

This was followed by the formation of St. John Ambulance in 1877, based on the principles of the Knights Hospitaller, to teach first aid, and numerous other organization joined them with the term first aid first coined in 1878 as civilian ambulance services spread as a combination of " first treatment " and " national aid " in large railway centres and mining districts as well as with police forces.

A community midwife would typically have a pager and be responsible for a particular area, contacted by ambulance control when needed.

He was taken to hospital by ambulance, but died about an hour later.

Set in contemporary West Berlin ( at the time still enclosed by the Berlin Wall ), Wings of Desire follows two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, as they roam the city, unseen and unheard by its human inhabitants, observing and listening to the diverse thoughts of Berliners: a pregnant woman in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, a painter struggling to find inspiration, a broken man who thinks his girlfriend no longer loves him.

A doctor was summoned, who spent ten minutes attempting to revive him before sending him by ambulance to Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Respiratory Therapists often are in charge of initiating and managing life support for people in intensive care units and emergency departments, stabilizing and monitoring high risk patients being moved from hospital to hospital by air or ground ambulance, and administering inhaled drugs and medical gases such as asthma medication, oxygen, and anaesthetic gases.

The first use of the ambulance as a specialized vehicle, in battle came about with the ambulances volantes designed by Dominique Jean Larrey ( 1766 – 1842 ), Napoleon Bonaparte's chief physician.

Larrey was present at the battle of Spires, between the French and Prussians, and was distressed by the fact that wounded soldiers were not picked up by the numerous ambulances ( which Napoleon required to be stationed two and half miles back from the scene of battle ) until after hostilities had ceased, and set about developing a new ambulance system.

The first known hospital-based ambulance service operated out of Commercial Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio ( now the Cincinnati General ) by 1865.

However, the first motorized ambulance was brought into service in the last year of the 19th century, with the Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, taking delivery of the first automobile ambulance, donated by 500 prominent local businessmen, in February 1899.

Shortly before World War II, then, a modern ambulance carried advanced medical equipment, was staffed by a physician, and was dispatched by radio.

With the severe manpower shortages imposed by the war effort, it became difficult for many hospitals to maintain their ambulance operations.

These studies, along with the White Paper report, placed pressure on governments to improve emergency care in general, including the care provided by ambulance services.

While some areas ambulances were staffed by advanced first-aid-level responders, in other areas, it was common for the local undertaker, having the only transport in town in which one could lie down, to operate both the local furniture store ( where he would make coffins as a sideline ) and the local ambulance service.

The resulting traffic jams are cited as contributing to the death of another person, a heart attack victim who died en route to Boston Medical Center when his ambulance was caught in one such traffic jam two weeks after the collapse.

The UK model utilizes two levels of ambulance staff, internally trained Ambulance Technicians, which are similar to EMTs in the US, and paramedics with advanced life support skills.

Before this time, emergency medical care was provided by two private ambulance services.

Decatur is served by two ambulance services.

The New Canaan Volunteer Ambulance Corps ( NCVAC ) is a free, all volunteer ambulance corps with three ambulances plus two paramedic fly-cars.

Services provided by the city include a fire department, an ambulance service, North Tama County Community Schools, a swimming pool, a public library, an airport, and two parks.

There is an express McDonalds, one small grocery, county shared medical clinics open on select weekdays, daily ambulance services, two medical pharmacies, a florist, a bank, a mortuary, farm supply and home repair store, several gas stations, several automobile and one large tractor trailer garages.

Dobbs Ferry is served by a paid police department, a volunteer fire department ( housing three pumpers and one tower ladder in two firehouses ) and a volunteer ambulance corps ( possessing two ambulances ( one equipped with four-wheel-drive ) and a fire rehab unit ).

Laporte Borough is protected by The Laporte Boro Volunteer Fire Company, which operates two pumpers and an ambulance.

** Headquarters of two Warrior, one FV432 ambulance, two Land Rovers, one 8-ton truck, headquarters and sniper section

When the boy regained consciousness and started to cry, Jambo and the other gorillas retreated, and an ambulance paramedic and two keepers rescued the boy.

The remainder of the field ambulance, comprising the headquarters with two surgical teams, would be co-located with the brigade and establish their main dressing station in farm buildings to the south of the bridge.

Romano, although seriously injured, was able to walk to the ambulance once it arrived, yet died two days later due to severe head trauma.

In 1974, during a picket of two hundred nuns with wheelchairs and crutches outside the annual American Medical Association ( AMA ) conference, four Gray Panther members dressed as medics rushed to the conference ’ s main entrance to make a house call on “ the sick AMA .” Another member dressed as “ the sick AMA ” was assisted by the “ medics ” from the entrance to a nearby ambulance.

Upon graduating in 1926, Travell completed two years of residency at New York Hospital while concurrently serving as an ambulance surgeon for the New York City police force.

There are two new pools under construction at the community centre, two new ambulance stations on either side of Malton and one new fire hall.

First on the scene of the accident was a nurse who lived nearby, who had been alerted by the two boys, and an ambulance crew that happened to be driving past by chance.

" I can distinctly remember the ambulance drawing up and two young people, a honeymoon couple I believe, being carried on a single stretcher into the casualty department.

The ambulance was divided into two sections, referred to as the Mobile Section and the Immobile Section.