BC Ambulance says they received 100 suspected overdose calls in B.C. on Wednesday. 52 of those calls were in Vancouver. Here are some captured by our camera overnight.
Photos capture emergency responders administering opioid antidote Narcan as drug overdoses in B.C. spike
Firefighters from No. 2 Fire Hall respond after a woman overdosed outside Carnegie Centre in downtown Vancouver early Friday morning. (Gian-Paolo Mendoza/CBC News)
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BC Ambulance says they received 100 suspected overdose calls in B.C. on Wednesday. Fifty-two of those calls were in Vancouver. Here are some captured by our camera overnight.
A paramedic walks a woman into an ambulance in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside after firefighters administered her a dose of Narcan, also known as naloxone. (Gian-Paolo Mendoza/CBC News)
Vancouver Police officers find a man slumped over on a bench on Main Street near Pender Street. (Gian-Paolo Mendoza/CBC News)
The same man overdoses just a block away from the previous incident, no less than fifteen minutes apart. (Gian-Paolo Mendoza/CBC News)
BC Ambulance says they received 100 suspected overdose calls in B.C. on Wednesday. 52 of those calls were in Vancouver. (Gian-Paolo Mendoza/CBC News)
