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Finger stuck in a bottle, escaped pet alligator, and other inappropriate calls for an ambulance

Allan Rose Hill
Jan 29, 2025
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The UK's Welsh Ambulance Service have shared their most "inappropriate" calls in the last year. According to the National Health Services trust, "of the 426,116 calls to the ambulance service last year, 63,836 (15%) were not a life or death emergency – an average of 175 calls a day."

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