Phantom
05-02-2004, 11:05 PM
This is delayed from a few days ago as we tried to keep up while at FDIC. As always, our hearts and prayers go out to the members of SW Ambulance and IAFF Local I-60 but most importantly, the family of 29 year old Tammy Mundell.
Additionally, the Firefighter who fell out of the apparatus in Brookline, MA remains in critical condition.
Take Care-BE CAREFUL.
BillyG
The Secret List 5-2-04
FirefighterCloseCalls.com
Two ambulance accidents, one EMT dies
Thursday, April 29, 2004
FireTimes News Wires
Coolidge, Arizona - One Southwest Ambulance employee was killed and another hurt Wednesday (April 28) afternoon in separate traffic accidents.
Tammy Mundell, 29, an emergency medical technician for Rural/Metro's Southwest Ambulance, died from injuries sustained in a collision with three other vehicles including a 18-wheeler gravel truck in Coolidge, said Josh Weiss, a spokesman for Southwest Ambulance.
Mundell, who is married and was near term pregnant with her sixth child, along with a Southwest paramedic were transporting an inmate and a corrections officer from the Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence to a hospital. They were near the intersection of Arizona 87 and Arizona 287 when the collision occurred about 3:30 p.m., Weiss said. Mundell's unborn child was also killed.
Part of the front of the Southwest Ambulance was sheared off in the accident and the driver's side of the cab area was crushed.
The other Southwest employee, a paramedic whose name wasn't released, had serious injuries and was taken to Maricopa Medical Center, Weiss said. All involved with transported by a series of medical evacuation helicopters responding to the scene.
Two other cars were involved in the crash. In all, six people were injured. They were transported to Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix.
Coolidge officials interviewed by television news had also stated the intersection has been a problem area for years and the small city had been seeking state assistance for traffic safety improvements.
Mundell had been with Southwest for about two years. Southwest's units in central Arizona are involved with rural EMS response, often times providing the only paramedic response in Pinal County, a large most rural county between Phoenix and Tucson.
In a Fox News 10 television interview, Southwest veteran paramedic and union president Gary August said that crews in that part of Arizona are very close.
"It is more than losing someone you work with - it is like losing a sister," August said.
August said she had been a midwife, in addition to a mother of a large family, with children ranging from ages 2 to 11.
"She just loved having kids. She was tough," August said.
The fatality is only the second line of duty death in the history of Southwest's operation. Southwest and Rural/Metro ambulance workers in Arizona are represented by IAFF Local I-60.
Funeral arrangements have been set for 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 4 at Mountain Cemetary, 7900 E. Main, in Mesa, Arizona.
August said an account to help the family has been set up:
Memorial Account for Tammy Mundell, Account #548004
Arizona Federal Credit Union
P.O. Box 60070
Phoenix, AZ 85082-0070
602-683-1000 or 800-523-4603
Second accident injures another Southwest crew, within minutes
Thirty minutes earlier, in the Phoenix accident, a Southwest Ambulance was headed south on 16th Street near Buckeye Road to pick up a non-emergency patient, according to police and ambulance officials.
The ambulance driver was about to turn east on Buckeye, when the driver of a Dodge Neon going north on 16th Street hit the vehicle, Phoenix police Lt. Anthony Vastuez said.
Vastuez said the ambulance was using its lights and sirens, but a company official said the crew wasn't using them.
Two ambulance crew members were transported to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. One had cuts to his head and the other had minor injuries, said John Ford, Southwest's director of public affairs.
Fox News 10 in Phoenix has since reported that the ambulance's paramedic, is in critical but stable condition.
Southwest Ambulance is owned by Rural/Metro Corp., based in Scottsdale.
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Additionally, the Firefighter who fell out of the apparatus in Brookline, MA remains in critical condition.
Take Care-BE CAREFUL.
BillyG
The Secret List 5-2-04
FirefighterCloseCalls.com
Two ambulance accidents, one EMT dies
Thursday, April 29, 2004
FireTimes News Wires
Coolidge, Arizona - One Southwest Ambulance employee was killed and another hurt Wednesday (April 28) afternoon in separate traffic accidents.
Tammy Mundell, 29, an emergency medical technician for Rural/Metro's Southwest Ambulance, died from injuries sustained in a collision with three other vehicles including a 18-wheeler gravel truck in Coolidge, said Josh Weiss, a spokesman for Southwest Ambulance.
Mundell, who is married and was near term pregnant with her sixth child, along with a Southwest paramedic were transporting an inmate and a corrections officer from the Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence to a hospital. They were near the intersection of Arizona 87 and Arizona 287 when the collision occurred about 3:30 p.m., Weiss said. Mundell's unborn child was also killed.
Part of the front of the Southwest Ambulance was sheared off in the accident and the driver's side of the cab area was crushed.
The other Southwest employee, a paramedic whose name wasn't released, had serious injuries and was taken to Maricopa Medical Center, Weiss said. All involved with transported by a series of medical evacuation helicopters responding to the scene.
Two other cars were involved in the crash. In all, six people were injured. They were transported to Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix.
Coolidge officials interviewed by television news had also stated the intersection has been a problem area for years and the small city had been seeking state assistance for traffic safety improvements.
Mundell had been with Southwest for about two years. Southwest's units in central Arizona are involved with rural EMS response, often times providing the only paramedic response in Pinal County, a large most rural county between Phoenix and Tucson.
In a Fox News 10 television interview, Southwest veteran paramedic and union president Gary August said that crews in that part of Arizona are very close.
"It is more than losing someone you work with - it is like losing a sister," August said.
August said she had been a midwife, in addition to a mother of a large family, with children ranging from ages 2 to 11.
"She just loved having kids. She was tough," August said.
The fatality is only the second line of duty death in the history of Southwest's operation. Southwest and Rural/Metro ambulance workers in Arizona are represented by IAFF Local I-60.
Funeral arrangements have been set for 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 4 at Mountain Cemetary, 7900 E. Main, in Mesa, Arizona.
August said an account to help the family has been set up:
Memorial Account for Tammy Mundell, Account #548004
Arizona Federal Credit Union
P.O. Box 60070
Phoenix, AZ 85082-0070
602-683-1000 or 800-523-4603
Second accident injures another Southwest crew, within minutes
Thirty minutes earlier, in the Phoenix accident, a Southwest Ambulance was headed south on 16th Street near Buckeye Road to pick up a non-emergency patient, according to police and ambulance officials.
The ambulance driver was about to turn east on Buckeye, when the driver of a Dodge Neon going north on 16th Street hit the vehicle, Phoenix police Lt. Anthony Vastuez said.
Vastuez said the ambulance was using its lights and sirens, but a company official said the crew wasn't using them.
Two ambulance crew members were transported to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. One had cuts to his head and the other had minor injuries, said John Ford, Southwest's director of public affairs.
Fox News 10 in Phoenix has since reported that the ambulance's paramedic, is in critical but stable condition.
Southwest Ambulance is owned by Rural/Metro Corp., based in Scottsdale.
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To visit Firefighter Close Calls home page, click here:
http://www.firefighterclosecalls.com