{"id":177274,"date":"2025-12-05T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177274\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:23:10","slug":"ambulance-crews-have-once-again-been-faced-high-volume-of-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177274\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambulance crews have once again been faced high volume of calls,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.96fm.ie\/news\/96fm-news-and-sport\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All 96FM News &amp; Sport<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/5fd1e9bc0000c.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Pic: Cork&#8217;s 96fm and C103<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The South West and North West are experiencing the highest demand.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Ambulance crews have once again been faced high volume of calls,<\/p>\n<p>Since 7am this morning, alone they have responded to around 732 calls with the South West and North West experiencing the highest demand.<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas season, is experiencing an early flu surge and cold-weather injuries are pushing demand above normal levels.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are urging the public to only call 999 or 112 for genuine emergencies and to consider out-of-hours GPs or pharmacists first,<\/p>\n<p>and if you haven&#8217;t already, to go get your flu vaccine.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=7f34f5aa-7e94-4bfd-8061-e41ce90c27a8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/68da98f341698.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All 96FM News &amp; Sport Pic: Cork&#8217;s 96fm and C103 The South West and North West are experiencing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1339,103,61,60,1344,1345,1343,1342,1341,1340],"class_list":{"0":"post-177274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-cork-96fm","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-live-broadcast-available","13":"tag-lorraine-and-ross","14":"tag-news-and-information","15":"tag-presenters","16":"tag-programmes","17":"tag-the-word-on-96fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}