| Housing bosses have offered gift tokens to staff to encourage them to cut the number of emergency call-outs being booked. |
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| Like her regular paramedic colleagues, Mrs Seddon attends all categories of call-outs, and can cover a life-or-death emergency. |
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| Two wasp stings nearly cost a Heybridge woman her life as a sharp increase of call-outs to deal with the striped pests was reported in mid-Essex. |
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| The driver of a fire engine involved in a fatal road accident had not been properly trained to drive through red lights on emergency call-outs. |
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| There were 1,047 emergency call-outs and the charity rescued 833 wild creatures with 598 being released unharmed or set free after treatment. |
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| Our time is wasted attending hoax call-outs and obviously can be better spent responding to genuine emergencies. |
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| Since January 1998 firefighters in Northern Ireland have dealt with 1,749 civil disturbance call-outs. |
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| I also note that speed humps mean fewer crashes and so fewer call-outs for the emergency services. |
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| During the past few months the problems and incidents when answering call-outs at high-rise tower blocks have escalated, they added. |
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| Culdrose also averages more than 200 call-outs a year, from sailors taken off sinking vessels in stormy seas to people injured in cliff falls. |
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| The most common call-outs are for drilling expertise to hang pictures, mirrors and notice-boards, carpentry such as assembling flat-pack furniture and electrical jobs. |
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| Although sidearms are usually primary defensive weapons for officers on patrol, they are secondary on tactical SWAT call-outs where shoulder-fired arms generally take over. |
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| Such firefighters are based at home and alerted to call-outs via bleepers. |
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| With funding for stations nationwide limited, the Fire Service has had a long-standing policy to charge for call-outs to commercial or private property. |
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| Meanwhile, the ambulance services in Limerick got off to a busy start to the New Year having to deal with up to 50 call-outs, which were mainly alcohol-related. |
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| Our bomb squad is very adept at dealing with these, and has many similar types of call-outs all over the city like this about suspicious packages. |
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| The trend is highlighted in a survey by windscreen company Autoglass which each year compiles a list of the number of call-outs to repair car windows all over the country. |
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| Apparently many of his patients try to take him for a ride, feigning injuries to achieve compensation, while other call-outs are totally unnecessary. |
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| These call-outs are not necessary as these yobbos go out with the aim to get knocked out of their heads. |
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| It comes after the service responded to 45 call-outs involving clinically obese people last year. |
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| Firefighters were attacked by young yobs armed with fireworks as they faced a deluge of emergency call-outs last night. |
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| And browned-off bosses blame staff's secret toast-munching sessions for the majority of the call-outs. |
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| Coastguard chiefs concede that the number of call-outs are probably a cry for help. |
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| The RNLI figures released yesterday show Dun Laoghaire had the most call-outs followed by Enniskillen. |
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| We had 133 call-outs last year and we're already up to 150 this year. |
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| University Hospital in Cov entry also recorded more than 500 call-outs, for reasons rang ing from traffic snarl-ups to missing people and a sudden death. |
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