Stolen Ambulances

The news has been running a clip of an ambulance hurtling down a highway at 80 mph, then going out of control, spinning, then hitting a wall, then rolling several times. It was a stolen ambulance being chased by police and filmed by a news helicopter.

http://www.nbc4.tv/slideshow/4164977/detail.html?qs=;s=7;w=320

We are told not to leave the keys in the ignition. Where I work they have even gone so far as to install a system, where when you are on scene, you can take the keys out, but leave the engine running. Anyone who tries to drive it without putting the keys back in will cut the engine out.

Several years ago, a pscyh patient stole one an ambulance at one of the local hospitals. Every a year or so we get a page to look out for an ambulance somewhere in the state that has gone missing. The closest I came to having an ambulance stolen was when I went into a nursing home and came out to find two old coots sitting in the front seat playing with the siren.

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Did three calls today, all Bls, an old fall, a drunk who fell asleep on a city bus, and the last one a psych. My relief meet me on scene, and we did a crew change right there, which was nice so I could home on time and sleep.