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Firefighter Arsonists
We hear about it all the time, firefighters who start fires. For whatever reason, some firefighters feel the need to start what we are supposed to put out. Some do it for glory, some to be the hero, some are sick, and some do it for other reasons.
Just …
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Pass!
After countless hours of reading, and rereading, and rerereading one of the most stimulating chapters ever written for a Paramedic text book, I'm happy to report that I passed the test.
*Does a little happy dance*
Goodbye, Pathophysiology. While I …
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Cops handle this one. Security camera video catches car bursting into flames at Canadian border crossing.
Click here and then scroll down for the latest fire and EMS news from STATter911.comIt took the driver quite a while to realize his car was leaking and burning. He got out just in time. This happened at the Pacific Highway border crossing on Sunday. The …
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Funniest EMS Calls Ever
Over at Life Under the Lights, they are having a carnival. Unfortunately it isn't the kind with hot cousins, toothless women, and midgets throwing knives at a large three breasted woman with a beard. That would be cool though wouldn't it.
Actually, the …
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Car Drives Into Group of Schoolchildren
A 40-YR.-OLD WOMAN IN NORFOLK, ENGLAND, INEXPLICABLY DROVE her car into a group of schoolchildren on a sidewalk today (Friday). The 5th-grade class was on a walking tour in the town of Worlingham when the car plowed into about 20 pedestrians, includi…
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Who are the BEST Firefighters?
Exactly who are the best firefighters? How can we tell exactly. I think that many of us have firefighters of all ranks we look up to in the Fire Service either locally or Nationally.
Who do you think are the best? The names below are just examples.
Bes…
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Turtles, Circumstances, and Change
Just this week, not only on our relatively quiet haven of Hilton Head Island, but right here in the community in which I live (Palmetto Dunes), comes a story which has become national news. Before I knew it would be on CNN and everywhere else, I read i…
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Are any of You Guys Overwhelmed?
First of all, I apologize for using the term "guys". That is what I learned growing up in Ohio. "Guys", or "You Guys" is the same with "Y'ALL" where I live currently. I think I was called out on a post actually. Read the post here, then check the comment…
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Who Are Ya' Gonna Call?
SOUTH CAROLINA COULD SOON BECOME THE WINTER HOME for career criminals. On Tuesday Firegeezer reported (HERE) on the Mayor of Wellford's decision to order the police to not chase after criminals on foot. Now comes word that the town of Lincolnville wi…
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You Don't Say !
A boy is someone who goes
through a phase in which he is
extremely interested in girls.
This phase usually lasts about 50 years.
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Promotional Opportunities
IT IS ENDING UP AS A BAD WEEK FOR FIRE CHIEFS:
In the Southwest corner of Virginia, a jury found a former Tazewell County fire chief guilty Thursday on charges of aggravated sexual battery and indecent liberties. William Darrell Vance Sr., 59, of Ric…
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Ninety-Nine days of Opportunity
The fire service is beginning to fully recognize the merits in adjusting, altering, and changing our strategic and tactical ways of doing business in the streets. The traditional attitudes and beliefs of equating aggressive firefighting operations in all…
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Take a Good Look Around
Have you stopped for a minute today and taken a good look around? Whether you’re sitting in the front seat at the stop light of an intersection or as you’re peering out the side cab window coming back from an alarm or while running errands in your P…
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This Prank is Epic…Rookie Fail
I know why I missed this video when doing the Top Ten Firehouse Pranks....because it is on myspace. Anyways, I found it today through a video search engine and I am glad I did. This is an epic fail by a rookie that I found to be a very simple but amusing…
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What a Great Idea!
Courtesy of Bayou Renaissance Man comes the story of Julius Andreas Gimli Arn MacGyver Chewbacca Highlander Elessar Jankov, a Norwegian bus driver who, all by himself, could give Mostly Cajun enough fodder for an entire post of The Name Game.From the sto…
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Quick takes
Click here and then scroll down for the latest fire and EMS news from STATter911.com[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPZcQBWwZgQ&hl=en&fs=1&]Bus fire: The only information with this one was that it happened in Canada.Permanent time-out…
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Ambulance crew runs over man they were coming to aid. Victim was lying on the ramp of a St. Petersburg, Florida fire station.
Click here and then scroll down for the latest fire and EMS news from STATter911.comTed Lenox A paramedic and EMT aassigned to St. Peterburg Fire Rescue's Rescue 5 got the call Thursday afternoon for a man bleeding about a block from the fire station. Re…
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In The Best Tradition of Medblog Carnvials…
... like Grand Rounds and Change of Shift, Life Under The Lights hosts this month's edition of The Handover. This month's theme is Funniest. Call. Evar.Plenty of funny stories there. Go give 'em a read.
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The Handover Blog Carnival – Funniest. Call. Ever – 9/25/2009
EMS people are some funny, funny, people. Oh sure, some of our humor is strange to the uninitiated. It's dark and disturbing sometimes... built from years of bearing witness to the macabre scenes of humanity that play out before us. Sometimes it's more s…
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