MACASSAR 2 February 2012, 10:30 A 27 year old man has died after a building collapsed on him while he was digging a trench at a building site in Macassar. When ER24 paramedics arrived at the scene they could see that the incident was severe. The entire building structure had collapsed to its one side [...]
[Bloemfontein 29 January 2012 11:30] A child has been bitten in the face by a dog this morning in Winburg. It is believed that it was a Boerboel that had bitten the child. A family, originally from Brakpan, were at a wedding in Winburg and they were staying over at a guest house in the [...]
[Mondeor 24 January 2012 10:00] Paramedics from the JHB South area were driving along Columbine Road towards Klipriver in Mondeor when they saw two men running around the side of the road jumping up and down waving their arms in the air. The paramedics stopped to see what the commotion was and immediately saw a [...]
[Vanderbijlpark 23 January 2012 15:00] A young boy and his mother apparently play almost every afternoon at the stadium in Vandebijlpark. Unfortunately, this afternoon, the 11 year old was injured after he apparently lost his footing while playing at the top of the steps. The events are not totally clear, but paramedics were told that [...]
[GORDONS BAY – 22 JANUARY 2012 AT 12H00] A 38 year old woman is in a serious condition after she was thrown from her horse on the Finlands Farm near to Gordons Bay this afternoon. ER24 received the call through our National Emergency Contact Centre from the family, informing that the patient had been thrown [...]
A Pretoria doctor died in front of his son on Tuesday morning when a buffalo attacked him on his game farm. Willie Cronjé, 44, who had a medical practice in Queenswood, was also a part-time game farmer. He and his son, Willem, 18, were on his game farm Uitkyk, about 20km from Boshof in the [...]
[DURBAN – 13 JANUARY 2012 AT 12H45] Emergency personnel rushed to Victoria Embankment, to a block of flats that was on fire and with people entrapped inside the building. When emergency personnel arrived on the scene, they found the building engulfed in flames, with smoke bellowing from the second floor. The members of public had [...]
A man believed to be in his late 30′s has been bitten on his hand by a Puff Adder on his farm in the Thornville / Richmond area this afternoon. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene and found the man’s hand had already swollen up. Knowing the severity of the incident the paramedics immediately stabilised [...]
CLIFTON 11 January 2012, 12:00 A 2 year old girl has sustained some injuries after she was allegedly bitten by a Rottweiler on Clifton main beach this afternoon. The cause of the incident is unknown, but when ER24 paramedics arrived at the beach they found the child in severe pain. She was being attended to [...]
An Australian tourist has miraculously survived a bungee cord break in Zimbabwe’s prime resort of Victoria Falls. The woman fell 20 metres into the Zambezi River on New Years Eve. Press reports name the woman as 22-year-old, Erin Laung Worth. Like other foreign tourists, she had opted for a bungee jump from the historic Victoria [...]
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