British Columbia Ambulance Crashes into Lake

ANewsvanIsland – Kennedy Lake – A single vehicle crash has killed two paramedics on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. The pair died after their ambulance plunged over an embankment off highway four into Kennedy Lake this morning (October 19th.) No patients were in the vehicle. Late this afternoon the bodies of the two paramedics, a man and a woman were recovered. The ambulance was pulled from the lake a short time later. An investigation is underway to determine what caused the crash.

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Paramedics with man on stretcher in ambulance, showing low angle view.

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