To transfer. The patient to the hospital, the situation becomes worse and the number of available ambulances gets reduced. This isnt a new thing. This has happened periodically over the years and its not unique to contra costa. Since september, the number of ambulances has increased from 54 to 72 per day, but Officials Say theyve received 240 calls for an ambulance this year alone. More than two thirds of them needed serious advanced medical attention, and paramedics are hard to hire and keep. We are putting up to a dozen firefighter emts through Paramedic School and then our subcontractor, amr, is also putting many of their emts who want to become paramedics through this Paramedic School, hospitals are overburdened and understaffed with hospital wait times for ambulances up to an hour at places like contra costa regional and john muir, walnut creek. We have seen some success with sutter delta in antioch, who has reduced their ambulance patient offload time in the last 12 months by a f
West chester at the site of the massive fire at the senior home. Philadelphia Half Marathon is happening this morning, thousands are taking part. First, lets get an update from chris sowers you have an update on the rain. Reporter temperatures are chilly this morning, in the 20s across the region. Clear conditions from the city points south and east, the clouds are rolling in north and west. Reading, 28. Allentown, freezing mark of 32. Youre down to 28. Millville, 27. Trenton, 29. Cape may youre presently sitting at 46 degrees. Satellite and radar well wake up to maybe a sliver of sun before the clouds come rolling on in, they will immediately lower and thicken and later this afternoon give way to spotty showers. Heres a look at Storm Tracker 6 live, set it in motion for you, the heaviest will pass on by to the north just like this, spotty stuff wont be enough to ruin the day, but enough to create damp conditions. Breezy and mild, comfortable high of 54 degrees. Sunshine giving way to
Forward with information to help get the gunman off the streets. The whole thing unfolded a bit past 5 00 last evening when two vehicles were exiting i95 on to route 413 in Bristol Township. The aggressive vehicle screamed at the passenger saying pull your window down and the guy lifted up what looked like a. 45 caliber pistol. And they quickly drove away and the gunman was aggressive in the moments leading up to the shooting by flashing the high beams and following closely behind the victims up to the traffic light at the exit. Both rounds hit the vehicle and one pierced a rear white Quarter Panel and one in the rubber lining in the window. And there is only one to describe the person sitting in the passenger seat. Extremely lucky if the door did not stop the round he could have taken one in the chest. A white man improvemently 30 years old with brown hair and a goatee. Anyone with information is asked to call Bristol Township police. A man was shot and killed inside of an applebees r
And twotime olympic Gold Medalist soccer star abby wambach has been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. She has issued a heartfelt apology to her fans, saying she takes full responsibility for her actions. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, april 4th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Top of the morning, everybody. Happy monday. Happy monday. Were going to kick it off with the deadly amtrak incident. It happened south of philadelphia, about 20 miles from last mays deadly accident, where a speeding amtrak train jumped the tracks, killing eight people. This weekends accident involved a train heading from new york city to savannah, georgia. Amtrak says it will run regularly scheduled trains on those tracks this morning but there could be some delays. We get more now from abcs chuck sivertsen. Amtrak corridor, accident involving a train. Reporter a yos on the tracks. An amtrak train derailing just outside of philadelphia. I woke up to being th
And twotime olympic medalist soccer star abby wambach has been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and issued a heartfelt apology to fans saying she takes full responsibility for her actions. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, april 4th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Top of the morning, everybody. Happy monday. Happy monday. Were going to kick it off with the deadly amtrak incident south of philadelphia about 20 miles from last mays deadly accident where a speeding amtrak train jumped the tracks killing eight people. This weekends accident involved a train heading from new york city to savannah, georgia. Amtrak says it will run regularly scheduled trains on those tracks this morning but there could be some delays. More from abcs chuck receiverson. Amtrak corridor, accident involving a train. Reporter a train derailing just outside i woke up to being thrown into the seat in front of me and the window got blown out right behide me. There