United Hatzalah volunteers as well as an ambulance team responded to a call for an unconscious person on Keren Kayemet St. in Beer Sheva and sustained light injuries after a gas balloon exploded nearby.
The medical personnel, who were performing CPR on the patient, began to suffer shortness of breath and light-headedness due to breathing in noxious fumes as a result of the explosion.
Due to the nature of the scene, the Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit was dispatched as well as other EMS personnel and Firefighters to extract the first group of responders and the patient and continued treatment in a safe area.
Volunteer EMT and Chapter Head of Beer Sheva for United Hatzalah Eliah Tubul, who was among the secondary group of EMS personnel at the scene said: "When I arrived at the scene I found a number of medical personnel and other first responders, some of whom are United Hatzalah volunteers, who had arrived to perform CPR on an unconscious person and were injured as a result of a gas balloon that exploded in their vicinity. Together with other medical personnel, I treated the injured at the scene, after which all of the medical personnel and the original patient, were transported to Soroka Hospital for continuing care."