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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Shumaila Iftikhar

London Ambulance Service doubles number of women working in ‘high risk’ environments

The London Ambulance Service (LAS) has doubled the number of women who are specially trained to work in the most dangerous environments following a recruitment campaign.

Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) paramedics respond to patients in the most perilous situations including fires, collapsed buildings, people trapped under trains or vehicles, people in water, or those in hard-to-reach places.

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