Woman ejected from vehicle among 136 weekend calls for Parkland Ambulance

Karasiuk could not say how fast the vehicle was moving when the person was ejected, but it wasn’t as serious as it could’ve been. It was also what proved to be the first of two notable incidents at Sturgeon Lake that day as they were called back to deal with a car crash that sent an 18-year-old to hospital in stable condition.

“We have a great distance to travel as paramedics based in Prince Albert,” Karasiuk said. “Our district can take us well into the national park, it can take us north of the Montreal Lake area and all the way up the Hanson Lake Road when we talk about our communities of Candle Lake and beyond that. In the southern area, it takes us around as well, so we have a very large district to cover.”

In a release, Parkland Ambulance listed off several calls of note, all of which involved cars or car crashes. While those were the most common types of calls for the most recent weekend, Karasiuk stressed the type of calls is as varied in the summer as any other time of year.

“There’s no indication that on a weekend on a weekday that we’re going to see, for example, a motor vehicle collision versus somebody with a medical problem,” Karasiuk said, “or somebody who was injured, let’s say, while doing what might seem simple to us like doing yard work or felling a tree, for example.”

Karasiuk added that it can be tough to define an average weekend for a paramedic service, but with 136 calls for service over the weekend, the last two days could be classified as a busy stretch.

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by Rob Mahon

Woman ejected from vehicle among 136 weekend calls for Parkland Ambulance

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