A 3-vehicle accident occurred in front of the Nanaimo Aquatic Centre. The accident occurred before 8 PM at the intersection of Wakesiah Avenue and Third Street. According to firefighters at the scene, a passenger in a Chevrolet Trailblazer was transported to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital with unidentified injuries. The driver of the Civic was examined […]
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A 26-year old Abbotsford man drowned after jumping into Cultus Lake from a cliff. According to Chilliwack RCMP, a friend of the victim called 911 to report that his friend jumped into the lake and did not resurface. Dangers of cliff jumping Based on the statement of the police, the fatal jump was recorded by
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A man was transported to RCH after sustaining a gunshot wound. The Mission police, fire and ambulance personnel responded to a call at Philbert Street for reports on a male suffering from a gunshot wound shortly after 3 PM. Shooting incident The victim was transported via air ambulance which landed in Mission Secondary School’s playing
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A 3-vehicle accident occurred in front of the Nanaimo Aquatic Centre. The accident occurred before 8 PM at the intersection of Wakesiah Avenue and Third Street. According to firefighters at the scene, a passenger in a Chevrolet Trailblazer was transported to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital with unidentified injuries. The driver of the Civic was examined
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After a dramatic revival on the weekend, more rinks and recreational facilities on P.E.I. are planning to buy automated external defibrillators. Importance of defibrillators Steve Stapleton assisted in reviving a friend who collapsed during a hockey game at the APM Centre in Cornwall. He used an AED when CPR was no longer working. According to
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CPR was given to a toddler after being pulled from an icy creek. A 22-month-old Pennsylvania boy whose lifeless body was pulled from an icy creek was resuscitated after an hour and 41 minutes of CPR and was able to survive without any lingering effects. Prompt and continued intervention A neighbor found Gardell caught up
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A pedestrian who was hit by a commercial truck was given CPR. A 22-year old man is in critical condition after being hit by a box truck in Pitt Meadows. It was a terrible accident that was witnessed by his partner. Dangers on the road The accident occurred on the Lougheed Highway near Harris Road
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A suspect has been arrested following a stabbing incident that involves a woman and an off-duty police officer. The incident happened outside the Immaculate Conception Elementary School in Delta. Stabbing incident According to Police Chief Neil Dubord, Sgt. John Jasmines, who was off duty at that time, around 3 in the afternoon he was outside
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A 66-year old Delta man is doing fine and breathing after an off-duty Surrey RCMP officer performed CPR after an apparent heart attack. According to the police, the officer was on his way to work when he was flagged down. A male driver is experiencing medical distress inside his vehicle which was stopped in the
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A man about 20 years old was found dead at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre. Paramedics responded to a call from the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Center at about 1:50 in the afternoon that a man is found in medical distress in his cell. The man had no vital signs. Paramedic immediately provided first aid on the man
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A 15-year-old boy is dead after a hit-and-run incident that happened near Lockport, Manitoba, in Winnipeg. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, two 15 year old boys were riding their bikes on the shoulder of Donald Road near Highway 9 in the municipality of St. Andrews when a vehicle suddenly change its direction off
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When Pierre Lachapelle went into cardiac arrest, he was successfully revived with CPR at a south shore CLSC. Successful revival It took up to 8 shocks from an automated external defibrillator (AED) followed by a shot of adrenalin before Lachapelle was revived. He went back to thank the people who brought him back. Lachapelle had
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Joyce King thinks of 2 strangers who saved her life with CPR. King is a 68-year old Beaconsfield resident who is recovering from a massive heart attack at a convalescence center in Montreal. Good Samaritans on the rescue At the time of the incident, King and her daughter exited Tim Horton’s restaurant and walked across
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Young brothers quickly performed CPR to save their grandmother who was having a cardiac arrest. Grayson Wu, 7-years old knew there was something wrong with his grandmother when she did not answer after asking for a snack. His grandmother was unconscious on the cough. According to Grayson, she was grunting a little. The brothers were
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A man running in the Cape Breton Fiddlers Run half-marathon was given CPR after he collapsed. The man collapsed around 10 feet away from the finish line. The runner seemed to stumble and eventually collapsed to the ground. A doctor and other medical personnel present on the site quickly ran to the man who was
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A man dropped off at the Sheldon Chumir Health Centre with a gunshot wound to the head was identified. The man is a 22-year old and identified as Itgel Baatarsuren of Calgary. According to the police, the man who dropped off Baatarsuren at the health centre fled in a white Pontiac G5. The victim was
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The man from La Sarre was swimming when he suddenly sank. The witness attempted in vain to rescue him. The body of a 67-year old man who drowned in a lake at a campground in the Abitibi-Temiscamingue region was retrieved by the Surete du Quebec divers. Based on the reports, the man from La Sarre
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Volunteers who utilized automated external defibrillators are protected according to Lakes MLA Keith Bain. Just recently, Bain’s amendments to the Volunteer Services Act aims on protecting a volunteer who uses an automated external defibrillator during emergency situations from lawsuits has passed with all-party support. The new amendment will also extend protection to organizations whose AED
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A woman helping the car crash victims lost her phone. A Vancouver Island woman hopes that her phone would be returned after it was stolen while helping in a car crash in front of her home over the weekend. Unexpected loss during a rescue Based on the reports of RCMP, Anne Marie Behan was at
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The emergency crews are at the site of a crash in Chestermere that left one individual with serious injuries. There were 3 patients who were transported to a healthcare facility while Highway 1 going eastbound was shut down. Tragic road accident The paramedics were called to the scene on Highway 1 and Highway 791. There
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