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  2. Ambulance station - Wikipedia

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    An ambulance station is a structure or other area set aside for storage of ambulance vehicles and their medical equipment, as well as working and living space for their staff. Ambulance stations have facilities for maintaining ambulance vehicles, such as a charger for the vehicles' batteries. [ 1 ]

  3. Ambulance - Wikipedia

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    A Ford E-Series ambulance with its emergency lights on in Boston An NHS ambulance in south-west London. An ambulance is a medically-equipped vehicle used to transport patients to treatment facilities, such as hospitals. [1] Typically, out-of-hospital medical care is provided to the patient during the transport.

  4. Emergency medical services - Wikipedia

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    An ambulance of the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department leaving a fire station In countries such as the United States, Japan, France, South Korea and parts of India, ambulances can be operated by the local fire or police services.

  5. Emergency medical services in the United States - Wikipedia

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    There were no national standards for ambulance services and staff generally had little, if any, medical training or equipment, leading to a high pre-hospital mortality rate. [10] Such companies continue to operate this way in some locations, providing non-emergency transport services, fee-for-service emergency service, [ 11 ] or contracted ...

  6. History of the ambulance - Wikipedia

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    The first ambulance station in Queensland operated out of the Brisbane Newspaper Company and officers on night duty slept on rolls of newspaper on the floor. They had a stretcher, but no vehicle and transported patients on foot, although in time, they gained horse-drawn stretchers and eventually vehicles.

  7. Category:Ambulance services - Wikipedia

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  8. Childers Ambulance Station - Wikipedia

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    Childers Ambulance Station is a heritage-listed former ambulance station at 69 Churchill Street, Childers, Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Leonard Kempster and built in 1924 by Queensland Department of Public Works. It is also known as Childers QATB and Isis District Centre QATB.

  9. British Columbia Ambulance Service - Wikipedia

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    The fleet consists of 658 ground ambulances operating from 183 stations [1] across the province along with 283 non-transport support vehicles. Additionally, BCAS provides inter-facility patient transfer services in circumstances where a patient needs to be moved between health care facilities for treatment.