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Coal Mine Ka-Boom In China Kills 73+
CHINA'S WEEKLY DISASTER OCCURRED SUNDAY MORNING in the northern province of Shanxi. What is initially believed to be a gas explosion ripped through a coal mine while the miners were evacuating because of a high concentration of carbon monoxide in the s…
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Morning Lineup – February 22
You know how there are some little snippets from your past that you never, ever forget? Those little inconsequential events that don't mean anything, but for some reason they made some kind of impression on your cranial databank and just stay with you …
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Video from Chicago 2-11
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1c9rZIXhpM&hl=en&fs=1]This fire was reported at 4:51 Saturday morning. The vacant building is at 2716 West Jackson Street in Chicago. By 5:08 AM it had been elevated to a 2-11. No injuries were reported.Th…
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Early video from a Carbon County, Pennsylvania house fire
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIOUl5ChMag&hl=en&fs=1]This fire is from Tuesday in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It is in Franklin Township VFC's area. The fire broke out around 5:00 PM and neighbor Mark Zovak captured the action.The woma…
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HQFD: Watching fires on YouTube in "high quality". The view from Minooka, IL.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-GTsMEi3hE&hl=en&fs=1]For the about a year or so YouTube has had the option of higher quality videos. You may have seen the buttons saying "watch in high quality". If you are wondering about the difference…
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House fire in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. PGFD fireground pictures and audio from this morning.
Listen to fireground audio from DC Fire Feeds (fairly large file)A lot of fire at 8:30 this morning coming from a house in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. The home is at 15110 Peerless Avenue off of Route 725. We haven't received a lot of detail other than wha…
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Things For EMTs To Do In Baltimore In The Springtime
Visit a restaurant in the Inner Harbor and have some crab cakes and Guinness. Dare your buddies to pinch your waitress on the ass, and then practice your wound management techniques on them.Attend EMS Today and hear lots of entertaining and informative l…
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Administrative charges filed Friday against former DC fire investigator suing Chief Dennis Rubin and the city
Firefighter Gregory Bowyer with Firefighter Gerald Pennington behind him during Thursday's press conference.
See our previous coverage of this story
Read letter from DC Office of the Attorney General
STATter911.com has learned the DC Fire &a…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21
Last day in San Fran for this trip. Taken from the cable car http://tweetphoto.com/11406401 #
RT @AmboDriver: @chebert13 Thanks, Chris. Why not buy me a new truck? ;) ^ I SO 2nd that!! You could wrap it with http://www.fireEMSblogs.com!! #
RT @9Or…
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Paramedic Disciplined Four Years Later
THE BURDENED AND BLOATED BUREAUCRACIES OF BRITAIN have ground to a near-halt as was exhibited earlier this week. The UK Health Professions Council held a disciplinary hearing considering the actions of a Northamptonshire paramedic, Rosalind Dixon, that…
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Television Programming Update
READERS IN THE U. S. CAN VIEW A TV SHOW TONIGHT THAT IS TIMELY to some of the things we've been covering here lately. The C-SPAN cable channel will have two broadcasts tonight worth checking out.
At 8:00 PM Eastern they will be showing a talk given in…
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Morning Lineup – February 21
While I am always willing to accept and use new technology, so far I haven't gotten consumed by it to the point where I'm surrounded by "the latest" and filling my closets with gadgets that I'll never use.
Maybe that's why I don't understand the giddine…
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Attention Senior Citizens…
...when you live barricaded behind burglar bars and numerous deadbolts because you fear for your safety in your particular neighborhood, please have a viable plan for allowing the police and EMTs access to your home should you ever need their help.Becaus…
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Accused Pennsylvania arsonist had been rejected by VFD. Mark Gilliam had gear and a car with flashing lights.
Mark GilliamWatch WPXI-TV storyExcerpts from an AP article:Police found accelerants, firefighting equipment and a newspaper article about the arsons plaguing a small steel town at the home of a wannabe firefighter they arrested while investigating the cr…
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West Virginia firefighters identified. Craigsville Lt. Johnnie Hammons and FF Timothy Nicholas killed in trailer fire.
Earlier coverage from STATter911.comExcerpts from from WSAZ-TV article:The State Fire Marshal's Office says Lt. Johnnie Hammons, 49, and Timothy Nicholas, 26, were the firefighters killed in a fire in Nicholas County Friday morning.Hammons had been on th…
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Video from large apartment fire in Surrey, BC
It has been a long Friday for firefighters in Surrey, BC. They were called to a fire at a 54-unit apartment building shortly after 4:00 AM and were still dealing with hot spots at the Cedar Grove Apartments six-hours later. No one has been injured.Here a…
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Pickup Truck "Close Call" In Michigan
ALCOHOL DEFINITELY PLAYED A FACTOR in the crash, say Lapeer County, Michigan, sheriff's deputies. Late Sunday evening last Christopher LaLone, 46, was driving his pickup truck and arrived at the railroad crossing just before the train did. However, t…
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Ambulance Collision In Indiana
A SUPERIOR AMBULANCE SERVICE OF INDIANA ambulance collided with a straight-bed fuel truck at a controlled intersection Thursday morning.
Plymouth Pilot News
According to the Indiana State Police the ambulance was carrying a patient and traveling north …
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