Posts :
Chicago Has Batch of Auto Arsons
A WAVE OF GANG MALICIOUSNESS LED TO the torching of 17 parked automobiles in Chicago early Tuesday morning. All of the arsons took place in the same general area on the west side of the city. Many people didn't know that their cars had been burned un…
Read More »
Around the Fire Web
* The hottest story yesterday was the subway collision in Washington, D. C. Fortunately, the death toll was relatively low for that type of accident, but the challenge for the firefighters and paramedics was just as great as any other. STATter911 h…
Read More »
Metro round-up: A look at some of the early findings, the fire & EMS response, and issues surrounding the darkest day in the transit agency’s history.
Click here and then scroll down for the latest fire and EMS news from STATter911.com
Images on this page from DC Fire & EMS Department photographer Vito Maggiolo via DCFD.com.
Instead of our normal "Quick takes" to start the day, we are focusi…
Read More »
Private: Chapter 8
We were called for a violent psych, and dispatch hadn’t been kidding.“All you motherfuckers look out. I am the archangel. I’m a bad motherfucker!”Six nine, three hundred pounds of prison muscle, naked except for a jock strap – the screaming man…
Read More »
Who knew what and when about DC’s deadly Metro collision? A lot of questions based on past performance, but no facts showing there was a problem.
Click here and then scroll down for the latest fire and EMS news from STATter911.com
For more on communications issues between Metro and area fire departments click here
You may have noted in our Monday evening story the mention of Chief Dennis Ru…
Read More »
Awesome! – Emergency! is on!
Sitting in the crew quarters (The ones we call "The Condos" here at this job). Partner is flipping channels and up pops... Emergency! Yay! Blogging be over for me for a while, gotta watch my boy Johnny rappel down a building to work a code on a scaffoldi…
Read More »
A Quick Poll…
Or an honest question actually... On behalf of my Superstar Partner, K.
Let's say you are a Paramedic. Or an EMT on an ALS truck. You show up on the scene, assess the patient, do a 12 lead, determine it's a BLS run after patient contact. You tell th…
Read More »
The Insanely Long Shift – Notes from a forced insomniac
I am currently on an insanely long shift.Call me irresponsible, call me crazy, call me whatever… but between my two EMS jobs, I am currently working a less-than-two week stretch with 178 scheduled hours.Yea… 178 freakin hours at work. I don't get to …
Read More »
DC Fire & EMS video from Metro collision that killed nine and injured 70.
Click here and then scroll down for the latest fire and EMS news from STATter911.com[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVMq3bIsDAA&hl=en&fs=1&]This is video shot by DC Fire & EMS Department PIO Alan Etter from yesterday's collision o…
Read More »
I Have That T-Shirt!
The other day I was surfing the internet...this is not uncommon at all! I was going from site to site. When I get going I might end up with 5 windows open with 10 or 15 tabs each which is not very easy to keep track of.
However, on this one particular d…
Read More »
Promotional Opportunities (Pending)
THE CHIEF OF THE CLAY COUNTY, FLORIDA, Fire/Rescue Department was suspended with pay last Friday amid two investigations being conducted by the county. Chief Frank Ennist is the only fire chief the agency has had, taking the newly-created post in late …
Read More »
Firefighting Acronyms
Here are some Firefighting acronyms that every firefighter should know. If you have more, add them to the comments. I know that there are hundreds more than this list, I just thought I would save us time and publish the difficult ones as well as some of …
Read More »
Morning Lineup – June 23
A goodly 35 years ago my department instituted a firm policy requiring all trucks and ambulances, etc., to have a spotter behind the vehicle whenever it is backing up. We even had an official set of hand signals for the spotter to use along with mandat…
Read More »
D. C. Metro Trains Collide, 9 Dead
Update: Death toll revised still again. Scroll down for details.
TWO D. C. METRO TRAINS CRASHED DURING MONDAY'S RUSH-HOUR leaving the lead cars of one train torn up and sitting atop the other train. Metro says that one train was stopped on the inb…
Read More »
Quick takes
Click here and then scroll down for the latest fire and EMS news from STATter911.comUPDATE - Final count is 9 dead in DC Metro crash: It is, by far, the deadliest crash in Metro's 33-year-history. One train plowed into the rear of a stopped train north o…
Read More »
The Handover – June ’09 Edition
BasicsDoc took on The Handover blog carnival this month. As always, there's a ton of excellent articles from my fellow EMS bloggers. It's all "must read" stuff.Great stuff. Good Job Doc.Remember, "Support your local EMS Blogosphere!"
Read More »
UPDATE: 9 dead as two Metro trains collide in Washington, DC. Deadliest crash in the system’s history. Watch morning briefing.
Click here and then scroll down for the latest fire and EMS news from STATter911.com
Live coverage from the scene (when available)
Raw video from Tuesday morning briefing
Watch slideshow from scene
Early raw video
Raw video from NTSB M…
Read More »
John M. Browning’s Greatest Gift
Yes, another gun post.
Oh, but this one is different. There will be no range report. No random gun porn. No showing off my latest acquisition from the gun store. No bragging photos of my tightest groups. I won't be sharing the latest exploits of me…
Read More »
