BC Emergency Health Services

Today we honour the memories of Paramedic Chief Jo-Ann Fuller and #Paramedic Ivan Polivka. The two lost their lives in 2010 when their ambulance veered off a narrow road into Kennedy Lake on their return from the hospital in Port Alberni.

#LODD #InMemoriam @APBC873

Today we honour the memory of #paramedic Tony Sunderland.

Tony died of a heart attack on June 4, 1988, while attending to two critical patients from an MVI near Endako, BC. The 41-year-old was the first BC paramedic to die while on duty.

#LODD #InMemoriam @APBC873

Today we honour the memories of #paramedics Kim Weitzel & Shawn Currier. They were attending a call inside a water-testing shed at the decommissioned Sullivan Mine on this day 20 years ago, when they, along with 2 mine employees, died from a lack of oxygen. #InMemoriam @APBC873

Today we honour the memory of Theresa Bond. The 42-year-old #paramedic chief and 10-year veteran of BCEHS died in a plane crash en route to a Unit Chief's meeting in Smithers on May 4, 1990. #LODD #InMemoriam @APBC873

Today we honour the memory of Michael (Mike) Scott Gray. The 39-year-old #paramedic and 11-year veteran of BCEHS died suddenly from a medical condition on April 8, 2008, just after transporting a #patient to VGH. #LODD #InMemoriam