1.   A private ambulance service half-owned by Kansas City businessman Vadim Levitin is preparing to expand operations under a city of Moscow contract next month.

2.   City officials allege the private ambulances have been used in an effort to skirt the attention of police and licensing officials that would follow up reports of overdoses.

3.   Firefighters used to dash to an accident, and then hand over the patient to a private ambulance for the trip to hospital.

4.   He awoke slightly disoriented and embarrassed, and paramedics from a private ambulance company assigned to the ceremony arrived to wheel him off by stretcher as quickly as possible.

5.   He worked extra shifts on private ambulances to save for a new fence and a pool.

6.   Holiman said he was also surprised to see private ambulance services advertising on television and in newspapers.

7.   In cities and towns across Massachusetts, turf battles are raging between local fire departments and private for-profit ambulance companies that compete to provide emergency medical services.

8.   In other towns, private ambulance drivers used their vehicles to block streets.

9.   ISL, based in Stamford, Connecticut, has a private ambulance service at the ready.

10.   Kirker and Demoss worked for private ambulance companies.