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Ambulance - Semi Accident......Medic Rescues Partner
AMBULANCE SLAMS INTO SEMI-BURNS-MEDIC RESCUES PARTNER
Saturday, January 26, 2008
An ambulance driver dragged her injured partner away from a wreck just before it burst into flames Friday morning, a Texas trooper said. It all started around 6:45 a.m. today about a mile north of Texarkana on U.S. Highway 71 when an ambulance carrying a pregnant woman crashed into the rear of a flatbed tractor-trailer rig.
The patient and ambulance crew survived without life-threatening injuries but only after a heroic rescue of paramedic Julie Pate, said Trooper Stephen W. Munger of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Moments after the collision, 26-year-old Reba Suiter, an EMT who had been driving the ambulance, saw Pate, 25, lying underneath the tractor-trailer rig. Suiter smelled diesel fuel. Pate had been thrown out of the side door of the ambulance during the collision with the tractor-trailer driven by Stuart Haywood, 35, of Jacksonville, Fla.
Pate had unbuckled herself to check on the pregnant patient, Kimberly Hendrix, 23, of Ashdown, Ark., said Munger.
Jim Williamson and Terri Richardson
of the Texarkana Gazette.Published: 01/26/2008
Staff photo by Evan Lewis
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
An ambulance driver dragged her injured partner away from a wreck just before it burst into flames Friday morning, a Texas trooper said. It all started around 6:45 a.m. today about a mile north of Texarkana on U.S. Highway 71 when an ambulance carrying a pregnant woman crashed into the rear of a flatbed tractor-trailer rig.
The patient and ambulance crew survived without life-threatening injuries but only after a heroic rescue of paramedic Julie Pate, said Trooper Stephen W. Munger of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Moments after the collision, 26-year-old Reba Suiter, an EMT who had been driving the ambulance, saw Pate, 25, lying underneath the tractor-trailer rig. Suiter smelled diesel fuel. Pate had been thrown out of the side door of the ambulance during the collision with the tractor-trailer driven by Stuart Haywood, 35, of Jacksonville, Fla.
Pate had unbuckled herself to check on the pregnant patient, Kimberly Hendrix, 23, of Ashdown, Ark., said Munger.
Jim Williamson and Terri Richardson
of the Texarkana Gazette.Published: 01/26/2008
Staff photo by Evan Lewis
Notification
USE OF INFORMATION FROM FirefighterCloseCalls.com and The Secret List should be passed along to FIREFIGHTERS and those who support (or are supposed to support!) us! Credit shall be given to www.firefighterclosecalls.com and if you are truly committed to firefighter safety, that should be no problem. If you aren't, and you don't give us credit and try to prostitute this stuff as your own, we'll find you and expose you. We Promise. Odd's are... our mailing list is bigger than yours!
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Permalink Reply by mike wright on
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The important thing is that no one was hurt in the crash. It was smart thinking on Reba's part to check for her partner. And very brave and smart of her to drag her out from under the semi. She went above and beyond the call of her job to save probably three lives that night. Great job Reba.
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