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Since early retirement, my significant other half has enjoyed work as a voluntary ambulance car driver taking patients to and from their hospital appointments. Unfortunately in spring, because of Covid, drivers over a certain age had to stand down in order to stay safe.

 

What a nice surprise to receive this mini Christmas hamper from South Central Ambulance Service.

 

Smile on Saturday: gift wrapping material

 

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Used to hold patients when A&E is full freeing up other ambulances. number plate S999 UKA

 

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HONG KONG FIRE SERVICES DEPARTMENT AMBULANCE

THE FIRST BausAT Type C Modular BENZ SPRINTER 518 IN HONG KONG

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(c) PHOTO BY BILL DEVER, COMMERCIAL POLICE PHOTOGRAPHER, HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

 

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Photo taken by Bunny Dever, Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1967

 

Two emergency ambulance attendants from the Gross Mortuary, 1017 Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Arkansas, hurry a critically injured man into an awaiting 1966 white Pontiac Consort ambulance in Hot Springs in 1967.

 

In the days before paramedics, backboards, and splinting, the goal of good ambulance service back then was hurry to the scene and quickly "load and go."

 

Even at that, Gross Mortuary operated an excellent 24 / 7 ambulance service, giving prompt, careful care to thousands of Hot Springs residents from 1909 to July 31, 1974 when it ended its ambulance service.

 

This accident occurred on East Grand Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The injured man's young son later died in nearby Quachita Hospital (now closed). This compelling action (copyrighted) picture was taken by Bill (Bunny) Dever of Hot Springs, a skilled commercial police photographer and a good friend of mine for many years. His great pictures give a glympse of funeral home-operated ambulance services in the 1960s - 1970s.

 

The ambulance pictured above was a Pontiac Consort ambulance made by Superior. A Consort ambulance had no dividing wall between and driver and the rear patient area. The ambulance was actually designed to hold three patients on stretchers! Two stretchers (one a wheeled stretcher and the other a folding cot) could fit easily side by side on the ambulance floor, and a third folding stretcher could be suspended from the ceiling.

 

It had a (very loud) Federal Q2 siren, four alternating red bullet lights on the four roof corners, and a giant red beaconray in the center of the roof.

 

This ambulance, known as "Gross 6," served Hot Springs faithfully from 1966 to 1970 when it was replaced by a bright yellow Superior Van ambulance. Gross Mortuary ended ambulance service July 31, 1974.

 

Note that the two attendants are lifting the stretcher into the ambulance -- now days, paramedics use so-called one-man stretchers which fold up into the ambulance without having to be lifted, sissies.

 

Click here to view hundreds of historical photographs of undertakers, funeral homes, professonal vehicles, and early ambulances collected since 1967 by Jim Moshinskie (Dr. Mo), PhD, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA. This also includes Special Interest Groups for several individual states.

 

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NEW BOOK AVAILABLE ABOUT FUNERAL HOME OPERATED AMBULANCE SERVICE

Humble Heroes: setting the record straight about funeral home operated ambulance service

 

"Humble Heroes" is a book that endeavors to set the record straight about funeral home operated ambulance service. Myths and misconceptions are addressed one by one. Twelve chapters address response times, training, equipment, finances as well as a chapter about a funeral home currently operating emergency ambulance service. Nearly 30 black and white period photos by Bill Dever, Dr. Jim Moshinskie and Kent Kirkley of funeral home based ambulances and their crews at work. Softcover, 40 pages, $12. TO ORDER: send a check or money order for $12 payable to Scott Reinbolt at P.O. Box 103, Blanchester, OH. 45107. Please don’t forget to include the address you would like the book shipped to.

 

ALSO SEE:

-- Gross Mortuary ambulance racing on an emergency call

-- Picture of Gross Mortuary, 1967

-- Last fleet of Gross Mortuary Ambulances in 1974

-- The Gross Mortuary building through the years

-- See Dr. Mo's collection of historic funeral home and ambulance photographs

 

Scottish Ambulance Service, Specialist Operations

 

Hard working vehicles, great for accessing patients through snow and flood

Scottish Ambulance Service - Special Operations Response Team

With mega thanks to the paramedic who showed me around and let me take pictures

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Edinburgh City Ambulance Station, May 2014

Scottish Ambulance Service, Specialist Operations

 

SORT Response Unit - Honda CRV

 

SORT Emergency Support Unit - Iveco / Fraser

 

SORT Incident Response Unit - Iveco / Bence

Tending to the scene of a collision on the outskirts of London

One of the newest batch of vehicles to arrive with the same body on either the VW Crafter 163PS TDi or the Mercedes Sprinter V6 CDI

This was flying! I went on burst mode and it was the only shot I got of it!

The first completed VW T6 DSG 4motion unit with additions to the HART specification. Ready to be equipped and then to the trainers for familiarisation.

Scottish Ambulance Service, Specialist Operations

Scottish Ambulance Service - Special Operations Response Team

Scottish Ambulance Service, Specialist Operations

 

SORT Response Unit

 

Been working hard on the grimy, slimy roads of Scotland!

One of the 36 additional units deployed to the Games

5-7-2008 - London Air Ambulance, McDonnell Douglas MD-900 Explorer.

 

Seen overflying London City Airport, during to 2008 funday.

 

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The aircraft was built in 2000 and carried the test reg. N3212K. It was delivered to the London Air Ambulance on 12-7-2000.

C/n - 900-00068

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