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In Case of Emergency

Phillips County Hospital participates in annual earthquake drill in Malta

A cry for help went out at 10:19 a.m. last Thursday.

"I am down at Trafton Park and I was walking along and heard yelling and screaming," the panicked caller said into her cell phone. "I ran over to the bleachers and the bleachers collapsed and there are four kids under them and they need help."

Minutes later paramedics, firefighters and hospital staff across Phillips County were alerted of the disaster and sirens echoed across the city of Malta.

Thankfully, the panicked caller was Phillips County Ambulance's Gina Lamb and her frantic call and the disaster she reported was pretend. The call...

 

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