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Patient Attacks Pa. Ambulance Medics

June 18--IT STARTED as a routine run, an ambulance ferrying a seriously injured man to the hospital after he was struck by a car. But yesterday's trip quickly became extraordinary. The patient assaulted two paramedics, then jumped out and tried to steal a fire engine before police officers responding to the medics' call for help shot the patient with a stun gun to regain control, said Frank Keel, a spokesman for the firefighters' union, International Association of Fire Fighters Local 22. It...

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Patient Attacks Pa. Ambulance Medics

A patient hit by a car assaulted two paramedics in the back of a Philadelphia ambulance and tried to steal a fire truck before police were able to subdue the man.

News • June 18th, 2013
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