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The EMS policy of "staging" states that paramedics who feel threatened at a scene should wait for police backup if there is a credible threat to their safety...Once it's determined there may be a danger – specifically, if weapons have been used and violence...
Tags: Toronto Emergency Medical Services, Toronto EMS, Jim Hearst, heart attack
Susan Krashinsky, Jill Colvin and Josh Wingrove Brampton, Ont., and Toronto — From Thursday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009 10:34PM EDT I t was a small storm, just a few kilometres wide. At about 1:50 p.m., it was headed southwest...
Tags: Brampton Civic Hospital, Josh Wingrove Brampton, Brampton Park, Toronto EMS, Toronto mom, lightning strike, Ontario, young boy, soccer field, centennial park
Provincial fire investigators have been called in to figure out how a seemingly small fire in a Toronto apartment building Tuesday night killed a woman and a four-year-old boy – identified as a pregnant mother and her son – and left two other women in...
Tags: Toronto Star, Toronto EMS, apartment fire, toronto apartment, vital signs, critical condition, fire chief, Weston Rd
A Toronto woman was in critical condition Wednesday, a day after being struck by a hit-and-run driver as she attended to another pedestrian who had been hit. The unidentified 53-year-old woman witnessed a car hitting another woman at an intersection in...
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ET An elderly Toronto-area man is on life support after an apparent dispute regarding a tree on Thursday. One man was taken away in handcuffs after a confrontation in Etobicoke, in the west end of Toronto, said CBC reporter John Lancaster.
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