All tagged 2020
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 31 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, Media, Nether Providence Township, and Ridley Township. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including respiratory emergency (COVID-19), hypotension (COVID-19), unconscious person, semi-conscious person, pediatric emergency, change in mental status, heart failure, and a suicide attempt.
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 37 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, Nether Providence Township, and Ridley Township. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including respiratory emergency, head injury, seizures, cardiac arrest, and hypotension (COVID-19).
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 29 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, Nether Providence Township, Ridley Park, and Rose Valley. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including respiratory emergency, abdominal pain, hemorrhaging, an unconscious person, and a change in mental status.
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 20 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, Nether Providence Township, and Ridley Township. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including respiratory emergency, laceration, choking, reaction to medication, change in mental status, fracture, and overdose.
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 18 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, Nether Providence Township, and Ridley Township. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including respiratory emergency, fall, seizure, overdose, tachycardia, and laceration after assault.
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 24 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, Media, Nether Providence Township, and Ridley Township. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including head injury, overdose, tachycardia, abdominal pain, and respiratory emergency.
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 28 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, Nether Providence Township, and Ridley Township. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including lacerations, cardiac emergency, respiratory emergency, dead on arrival, psychiatric emergency, and assault.
Firefighters responded to an August 10 alarm for a fuel tanker on fire in Morton Borough. Firefighters from Swarthmore and Morton-Rutledge pulled hoselines to extinguish the blaze in the engine compartment.
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 17 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, and Nether Providence Township. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including fall, overdose, abdominal pain, lacerations, seizures, and an animal bite.
800 Avondale Road, Nether Providence Township. Dispatched as “working mechanical room fire.” Firefighters discovered a trash compactor on fire next to the mechanical room. The blaze was quickly extinguished, primarily with tank water,* although supply lines were laid and hose connected to the building’s fire department connection.† Additional units came from the Garden City and South Media fire departments.
Swarthmore firefighters were called to the site of a gas leak in Nether Providence Township on June 22. A contractor had struck a six-inch gas line while drilling for electric utilities installation. Gas was exiting the pipe under 20 lbs. of pressure – sufficient to blow dirt and other debris from the hole six feet into the air.
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 15 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, and Nether Providence Township. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including respiratory difficulty, pediatric emergency, back pain, fall with trauma, a fracture, and a person under a fallen tree.
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 15 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, Nether Providence Township, and Ridley Township. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including respiratory difficulty, cardiac emergency, a pediatric emergency, overdose, head injury, an unconscious person, and a psychiatric emergency.
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 25 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, Nether Providence Township, and Ridley Township. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including respiratory difficulty (COVID-19), cardiac emergency, overdose, assault, an unconscious person, back pain, a lift assist, and head injury.
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 21 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, Nether Providence Township, and Rose Valley. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including respiratory difficulty (COVID-19), cardiac emergency, diabetic emergency, elevator rescue, overdose, laceration, pediatric emergency, and dead on arrival.
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 26 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, Nether Providence Township, and Ridley Park. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including cardiac emergency, respiratory difficulty, hemorrhaging, psychiatric emergency, and abdominal pain.
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 34 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, Nether Providence, Ridley, Ridley Park, and Rose Valley. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including cardiac emergency, seizures, hypertension, fall, unconscious person, head injury, syncopal episode, allergic reaction, respiratory difficulty, reaction to medication, and diabetic emergency.
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 34 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, Nether Providence, Ridley, Ridley Park, and Rose Valley. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including cardiac emergency, seizures, hypertension, fall, unconscious person, head injury, syncopal episode, allergic reaction, respiratory difficulty, reaction to medication, and diabetic emergency.
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 41 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, Ridley, and Nether Providence. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including cardiac emergency, choking, seizures, hypertension, a fall, head injury, psychiatric emergency, syncopal episode, respiratory difficulty, tachycardia, pediatric emergency, and extreme pain.
In this two-week period, the ambulance responded to 28 calls for medical assistance, to Swarthmore, Rutledge, Morton, Springfield, Ridley, and Nether Providence. The calls were for a variety of emergencies, including cardiac emergency, accident, overdose, hemorrhaging, seizures, hypertension, fall, fracture, lift assist, head injury, abdominal pain, and laceration.
