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Paramedic shot while transporting patient in ESL
BY CAROLYN SMITH
News-Democrat

WASHINGTON PARK --
Police were searching for three suspects Monday night in the shooting of a MedStar Ambulance worker who was transporting one of two brothers wounded in a shooting.

Police are looking for a late-model, red Grand Am they believe the suspects were in.

The worker, whose name was not released Monday night, was airlifted to St. Louis University Hospital. The two brothers, whose names also were being withheld, were being treated at Kenneth Hall Regional Hospital, where East St. Louis police had secured the perimeter. The ambulance worker was listed to be in serious condition. He was hit in the left arm, and the bullet traveled through and into his chest, Washington Park Police Chief Calvin Hammonds said. No conditions were available on the brothers, who know the shooters, Hammonds said.
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Here is a little more on it. Apparently they shot the driver of the ambulance during transport............ Sad

http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=146526
 
That really stinks - what a way to celebrate EMS week.

Just a reminder that everything can change in a moment.
 
My thoughts and prayers to the family and friends........-_-
 
My thoughts and prayers for the famlies. On the same thought body armor should be made mandatory for all first responders.
 
Update:
http://www.emsresponder.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=7627
http://www.emsresponder.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=7627
EMT Recounts Illinois Ambulance Ambush



May 24--Twenty-year-old MedStar EMT Lydia Cravens had no time to think in the moments after her ambulance was ambushed Monday night and she took the wheel from her co-worker who was shot as they were transporting another gunshot victim to Kenneth Hall Regional Hospital.
"In a situation like that, you don't know what you're doing," Cravens said. "Your thought process is not there. You don't think. You sort of move."
Cravens and her co-worker, Patrick Bierman, 23, responded about 9 p.m. to a call of a double shooting in the 1500 block of North 51st Street in Washington Park. Another ambulance transported one of the two victims, who are brothers, and was followed by a detective. Cravens and Bierman transported the other but had no escort.
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So... she drove, and perhaps left no one in the back? OMG.. that is probably against PROTOCOL. do you think she'll get in trouble?
 
my brother is cop in a area called jennings which is close to esl........the ems workers usually don't respond to calls without police escort because gang violence is so bad out there......

:sad:sad sad sad.....prayers and good thoughts to the driver and his family
 
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my prayers are with them.
 
jazminestar said:
my brother is cop in a area called jennings which is close to esl........the ems workers usually don't respond to calls without police escort because gang violence is so bad out there......

:sad:sad sad sad.....prayers and good thoughts to the driver and his family
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well... it seems they had PD on the scene, but who really needs a PD escort to the hospital?
 
On the same thought body armor should be made mandatory for all first responders.
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You're absolutely correct. . . . . for SOME jurisdictions.
 
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