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An Ottawa Paramedic Service ambulance parked on Queen Street, during the 2007 Remembrance Day ceremonies in Ottawa. In front of the ambulance is a St. John's Ambulance van. In the 1980s better ambulances and equipment became the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care's priority.
A rail ambulance is a vehicle used for medical transportation services on railway lines. [1] The first rail ambulance was set up in 1920, in order to enable injured people to be transported to the nearest hospital, was set up in the coal mining community of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The car ran between #3 and #7 mines and Town of Sydney Mines.
At 3:50 pm EST, on January 11, 2019, an OC Transpo double-decker bus, operating on route 269 to Kanata, crashed on approach to Westboro Station, Ottawa, Canada, by swerving and striking the bus shelter at the station. Part of the upper deck of the bus was torn off on impact, killing three people on board, as well as injuring 23 others.
Emergency medical services (EMS), also known as ambulance services ""pre-hospital care"" or paramedic services, are emergency services that provide urgent pre-hospital treatment and stabilisation for serious illness and injuries and transport to definitive care. [1]
Ornge AgustaWestland AW139 at the Ottawa base, 3 June 2011 Ornge facility in Thunder Bay. Ornge (pronounced Orange), [4] formerly Ontario Air Ambulance Corporation and Ontario Air Ambulance Service, is a Canadian not-for-profit corporation [2] and registered charity [1] that provides air ambulance and associated ground transportation services for the province of Ontario, under the direction of ...
1900 Hull–Ottawa fire; 1929 Ottawa sewer explosion; 2013 Ottawa bus–train crash; 2018 United States–Canada tornado outbreak; 2019 Westboro station bus crash; C.
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In 1999, the government of Ontario downloaded responsibility for the provision of Land Ambulance Services. In the southern half of the province, the responsibility fell onto Upper Tier Municipalities , such as county or regional governments as well as some larger cities and townships.