Christmas Day brought relatives, friends and gifts, and for the first time since he had been wheeled into the hospital's emergency room on the ambulance stretcher, Buford felt a touch of happiness.

"Yesterday, an E.M.S. crew told me they had to wait seven hours before they could transfer a patient" from an ambulance stretcher to a bed, Dr. Henry said.

Beuys lay on the ambulance stretcher swathed in felt.

He lunged at the officers, who re-strained him with handcuffs and then the emergency workers strapped him to an ambulance stretcher, the authori-ties said.

Emergency Medical Service workers then strapped him to an ambulance stretcher, the police said.

A neighbor called 911, the officers who were sent there put handcuffs on his wrists and the emergency service workers strapped him to an ambulance stretcher, the police said.

Do the transfer to the ambulance stretcher down in the ER.

A police ambulance stretchers in a gunshot victim.

Police later obtained additional statements from Walker as he lay wounded on an ambulance stretcher on the way to the Georgia Street Receiving Hospital for emergency treatment.

The scoop stretcher is used for lifting patients, for instance from the ground onto an ambulance stretcher or long board.