Alarms were sound again this morning when a second call out to Epping industria was received. EMS workers were surprised to hear that they would be responding to the same address where yesterday’s drama took place and again for a gas leak. A number of workers started showing symptoms of eye irritation, headache, nausea and [...]
September is Heart Awareness Month, which strives to educate the general public to become aware of the importance of a healthy heart. Not only is it important to attempt to lead a healthy lifestyle with respect to eating habits and exercise, but to also be aware of symptoms that indicate possible heart disease. It cannot [...]
Johannesburg emergency services temporarily restricted airspace and closed off the Golden Highway off-ramp on the N1 because of a gas leak at an ABI depot, an official said on Tuesday. “We are currently at the ABI [Amalgamated Beverage Industries] depot next to the Golden Highway and the N1 off-ramp… there was digging on the premises [...]
An elderly man has being injured after falling into an electric fence inside the property of the old age home where he is staying this afternoon in Pietermaritzburg. ER24 paramedics and the provincial ambulance service arrived on the scene and found the man lying near the fence in a very confused stated. He had also [...]
Emergency Medical services had their hands full today when an unprecedented 150 plus patients had to be taken to various hospitals. ER24’s national control room in Johannesburg received a call at 12:34 that a major gas leak had occurred at a factory in Epping industria. Moments later when the paramedics arrived at the scene they [...]
Two men had a lucky escape when their light aircraft had to make an emergency landing in Aalwyndal, Mossel Bay, on Saturday afternoon. Pilot Roger Brink and Dirk Uys, the owner of the plane, were injured. Emergency equipment had to be used to free them from the wreckage, after which they were taken to hospitals [...]
A Waterfall couple are outraged at the Airports Company of South Africa (Acsa) after the top of their two-year-old son’s finger was almost severed in an accident on the escalators at King Shaka International Airport – and no first aid-trained official or first-aid kit was available. The airport’s medical unit was not answering phone calls [...]
A woman in her thirties has allegedly been knocked down by a commuter bus on Beach Road in Seapoint. False Bay volunteer paramedics were driving on Beach Road when the incident happened, and they stopped to assist the critically injured woman. ER24 paramedics were called to the scene, and the Seapoint Community Medics also lent [...]
A light aircraft performing a test flight suddenly needed to make an emergency landing after the aircraft allegedly experienced mechanical failure. The pilot allegedly needed to perform evasive maneuvers for overlying power lines while also trying to control the aircraft. Fortunately he was able to steer the aircraft underneath the lines and further into an [...]
A Pietermaritzburg man is in a serious but stable condition in the Edendale Hospital after falling approximately three metres when a staircase gave way in the Lay Centre in Edendale this morning. Details of the structural collapse remain vague. The man alleges that he had been walking up the concrete staircase in the building from [...]
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