<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : ambulance : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Man wrecks car, steals ambulance]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/96922/1/" /><id>96922</id><summary><![CDATA[Man wrecks car, steals ambulance]]></summary><issued>2009-02-28T20:29:21+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-28T20:29:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Hoopa man who drove his car over an embankment on State Route 299 allegedly stole an ambulance when emergency workers came to help him, then led police on an hour-long chase Thursday night.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ambulance Driver Charged With DUI]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37928/1/" /><id>37928</id><summary><![CDATA[Ambulance Driver Charged With DUI]]></summary><issued>2007-10-10T22:27:54+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-10T22:27:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A West Virginia ambulance driver has been charged with driving under the influence of controlled substances after he ran two red lights with a patient in the back.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Determined Texas woman, 92, votes in ambulance]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81074/1/" /><id>81074</id><summary><![CDATA[Determined Texas woman, 92, votes in ambulance]]></summary><issued>2008-11-05T07:42:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-05T07:42:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Betty Owen is 92 and after a stroke four years ago, needs a feeding tube and can't walk. But she was determined not to miss Tuesday's election. She arrived at her polling place on a gurney in an ambulance, where an election judge and support worker climbed aboard with an electronic voting machine and let her cast her ballot.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Lost Ambulance]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/39425/1/" /><id>39425</id><summary><![CDATA[Lost Ambulance]]></summary><issued>2007-10-24T13:15:31+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-24T13:15:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An ambulance called into town to help with ailing marathoner got lost enroute to the hospital.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[NY considers creating 'organ-removal' ambulance ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/64530/1/" /><id>64530</id><summary><![CDATA[NY considers creating 'organ-removal' ambulance ]]></summary><issued>2008-06-06T01:11:14+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-06T01:11:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Saving the living has always been the No. 1 priority for a New York City ambulance crew. But a select group of paramedics may soon have a different task altogether: saving the dead. The city is considering creating a special ambulance whose crew would rush to collect the newly deceased and preserve the body so that the organs might be taken for transplant.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ambulance robbed as girl dies]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/7440/1/" /><id>7440</id><summary><![CDATA[Ambulance robbed as girl dies]]></summary><issued>2006-12-11T16:49:05+01:00</issued><modified>2006-12-11T16:49:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Whilst ambulance officers in Melbourne worked on a nine year old girl, thieves robbed their vehicles of vital radio equipment. After the tragedy of losing the child, the paramedics were disgusted to discover the theft.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Need an ambulance? Try the Galveston garage sale]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19159/1/" /><id>19159</id><summary><![CDATA[Need an ambulance? Try the Galveston garage sale]]></summary><issued>2007-05-05T14:43:25+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-05T14:43:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[If you'd like to own your own ambulance, you can pick one up in Galveston Saturday.<br/><br/>At least, you can try.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Woman Dies After Ambulance Gets Lost]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/68331/1/" /><id>68331</id><summary><![CDATA[Woman Dies After Ambulance Gets Lost]]></summary><issued>2008-07-10T15:32:07+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-10T15:32:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A driver unfamiliar with the area and relying on navigational equipment took a wrong road back to the hospital. No one knows if the delay contributed to her death - probably it didn't but the family says they'll never know.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Canada's first ambulance for obese patients on call]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/24747/1/" /><id>24747</id><summary><![CDATA[Canada's first ambulance for obese patients on call]]></summary><issued>2007-06-21T22:59:38+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-21T22:59:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The so-called &quot;bariatric response team&quot; is called in when the patient weighs between 400 pounds (181 kilograms) and 1,000 pounds (453 kg)...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['My baby's not breathing' hoax angers ambos]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/56595/1/" /><id>56595</id><summary><![CDATA['My baby's not breathing' hoax angers ambos]]></summary><issued>2008-04-01T06:25:30+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-01T06:25:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Ambulance workers in are seething over a &quot;disturbing&quot; hoax phone call this morning.<br/><br/>Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman Andrew Christie said a Cairns woman rang 000 around midnight and screamed that her baby had fallen off the bed and stopped breathing.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Handcuffed woman jumps out of moving ambulance]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32261/1/" /><id>32261</id><summary><![CDATA[Handcuffed woman jumps out of moving ambulance]]></summary><issued>2007-08-19T19:52:19+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-19T19:52:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Oh Florida, how I love thee!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Paramedics arrested for 'ignoring a dying disabled man because he wasn't worth saving']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/87176/1/" /><id>87176</id><summary><![CDATA[Paramedics arrested for 'ignoring a dying disabled man because he wasn't worth saving']]></summary><issued>2008-12-31T10:33:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-31T10:33:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A pair of ambulance men have been arrested after a recording caught them saying the dying man who called for help wasn't worth saving. They also allegedly stated that they would lie and say that the man was already dead when they got there.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Patient steals ambulance]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/8425/1/" /><id>8425</id><summary><![CDATA[Patient steals ambulance]]></summary><issued>2007-01-02T12:42:27+01:00</issued><modified>2007-01-02T12:42:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Apparently, this happens once or twice a year.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ambulances to charge extra for obese patients]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135076/1/" /><id>135076</id><summary><![CDATA[Ambulances to charge extra for obese patients]]></summary><issued>2009-10-25T12:21:52+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-25T12:21:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[As the nation battles the obesity crisis, ambulance crews are trying to improve how they transport extremely heavy patients, who become significantly more difficult to move as they surpass 350 pounds. And caring for such patients is expensive, requiring costly equipment and extra workers, so some ambulance companies have started charging higher fees for especially overweight people.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[North Olmsted widow: 9-1-1 mistake proves 'there's something wrong with the system']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/127414/1/" /><id>127414</id><summary><![CDATA[North Olmsted widow: 9-1-1 mistake proves 'there's something wrong with the system']]></summary><issued>2009-07-11T19:29:46+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-11T19:29:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[When Nicola Ortner's husband collapsed from an apparent heart attack in their North Olmsted home on Father's Day, she called 9-1-1. The dispatcher answered immediately, sent help to the street address and stayed on the line to give Ortner CPR instructions. But the street the ambulance was dispatched to was 20 miles from Ortner, who had one hand on the phone while using the other hand in a frantic struggle to revive her husband. The ambulance was in Independence.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Britney dragged off in restraints - AT LAST]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/46014/1/" /><id>46014</id><summary><![CDATA[Britney dragged off in restraints - AT LAST]]></summary><issued>2008-01-04T10:08:11+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-04T10:08:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The troubled life of Britney Spears added a new chapter when the intoxicated pop star was whisked away in an ambulance after police were called to her house to help end a nearly three-hour custody standoff involving her young sons.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man jumps from ambulance, then hit by truck]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/8733/1/" /><id>8733</id><summary><![CDATA[Man jumps from ambulance, then hit by truck]]></summary><issued>2007-01-08T18:21:50+01:00</issued><modified>2007-01-08T18:21:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Think the title says it all, except for wheres the brain dead category]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man dies after ambulance detour]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/120909/1/" /><id>120909</id><summary><![CDATA[Man dies after ambulance detour]]></summary><issued>2009-06-07T15:43:44+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-07T15:43:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The driver complained to a colleague that he was 15 minutes past the end of his duty and wanted to clock off.<br/><br/>The News of the World reported that he got out of the ambulance without even telling his replacement there was a critically sick case being tended by another medic in the back.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Medic fired for alleged drunken driving in ambulance ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40940/1/" /><id>40940</id><summary><![CDATA[Medic fired for alleged drunken driving in ambulance ]]></summary><issued>2007-11-07T11:23:16+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-07T11:23:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Security noticed that he appeared to smell of alcohol and was attempting to set up an intravenous fluid transfusion on himself.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Homeless Use Ambulances as Taxis; Emergency Room as Hotel]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/127497/1/" /><id>127497</id><summary><![CDATA[Homeless Use Ambulances as Taxis; Emergency Room as Hotel]]></summary><issued>2009-07-12T16:42:48+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-12T16:42:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[How some people abuse 911, the city ambulances and emergency rooms. Example one is &quot;Ricky Alardo, a homeless alcoholic nicknamed Ricky Ricardo&quot; who &quot;swigs cheap vodka by day at his favorite corner in Washington Heights, then calls an ambulance to chauffeur him to the hospital for a free meal and a warm place to sleep, courtesy of taxpayers who fund his Medicaid benefits.]]></content></entry></items></xml>