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One Dead, Several Injured After Fire Truck & Ambulance Crash Responding To Emergencies

A fire truck hit a pole after crashing into an ambulance during an emergency. (Photo: Hillel Lichtenstein)BEDFORD STUYVESANT – One person is dead and several are injured after an ambulance and a fire truck crashed into each other while responding to emergencies early this morning. At around 12:45 a.

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New Ambulance Service To Provide Chinese Language Health Care And Jobs To Brooklynites

(Photo by Heather Chin / Sunset Park Voice)By Heather Chin Brooklyn’s Chinese American community now has its own ambulance company — the first on the East Coast — to address a growing need for paramedics and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) who speak Chinese dialects such as Mandarin, Cantonese, and Toisanese. Launched

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Video: In Bensonhurst, An Increasing Demand For Bilingual Ambulance Workers

Screenshot of video by Kimberly Conner & Ashley LewisBy Kimberly Conner In medical emergencies, every second counts. Michael Marquez, corporate president of Bensonhurst Volunteer Ambulance Service [http://www.nycservice.org/organizations/1592] (8310 17th Avenue), says that language barriers are common obstacles facing emergency medical workers serving the local community. Earlier

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Breaking: Dog Attacks Elderly Man In Gravesend

Source: Tim Werkel via Wikimedia CommonsAn 86-year-old man is being treated after being attacked by a dog. It happened early this afternoon. Police and EMT rushed to the scene of Avenue P and West 10th Street to help the victim. This is a breaking news story and may contain inaccuracies.