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GE Microwave Linked to Kitchen Fires
Here's an interesting video addressing a products liability concern with GE microwave ovens starting fires even though they are not in use at the time.
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Morning Lineup – February 23
I'm sure that this sort of harmless hazing still goes on. I'm wondering what errands are being delegated to the probies these days?
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Anne Arundel reduces responses by Dunkirk VFD after collision between two rigs. Volunteer chief disputes police report & makes own accusations about career staff. Crash highlights problems between border companies. Driver charged.
There appear to be lots of issues between the Anne Arundel County Fire Department and the Dunkirk Volunteer Fire Department in Calvert County.
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The Waiting Game
Asher had another VCUG and renagram today for his hydronephrosis. Won't have results for a day or two, but it looked like it always did... delayed draining of the left kidney. Hoping they find something diagnostic soon
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Another Lawsuit Looms for Westbrook
The Westbrook, Maine Fire Department has seen its share of legal battles over the past 15 years, and it would seem that another one is on the horizon. Former Fire Chief Daniel Brock, in office only a year, was let go immediately upon newly elected Mayor …
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NFA Offers Special Operations Pilot Course
The National Fire Academy is seeking students to attend a pilot course called "Hazardous Materials/Special Operations Program Management (P254)". The six day course will be held at the National Emergency Training Center (NETC) in Emmitsburg, Mar…
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Three-alarms in Prince George’s County. Fireground audio from garden apartment fire in Laurel, Maryland.
No injuries reported at afternoon fire on Mistletoe Springs Road.
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I’ll be At Your Side
This is an old post I'll be at Your Side from 2005 that I am contributing to this month's The Handover hosted by Mac505 at Notes From Mosquito Hill.
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Mystery Minute 04.22
Finney was getting a headache.
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Amb. Driver Sentenced for Manslaughter
A FORMER EMPLOYEE OF LOUISVILLE METRO EMS in Kentucky was sentenced to prison earlier today to cap a story that we have been following for 22 months.
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Crisis Communications Review of the Austin IRS building crash and fire
I have taken a few days to review all the public information related quotes pertaining to the plane crash and fire in Austin, Texas.
From an Austin Fire Department perspective they did all the right things. On the fire ground their response, attack and search all followed SOP. During the initial news conference Austin Fire Chief Rhonda Mae Kerr spoke briefly, discussed the fire, thanked the Department and applauded the response of the entire unified command in the city. She turned the investigation over to the FBI.
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The Credit Union Gods Have Smiled Upon Me…
... and I shall be car shopping today with considerably broader options than I had just three days ago.
More to come soon, and actually some EMS posts!
That is, as soon as I procure a ride...
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Drag Race Spectator Killed By Flying Tire
A WOMAN SITTING BEHIND THE STANDS AT FIREBIRD INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY in Chandler, Arizona, died Sunday following a freak accident on the drag strip.
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Amazing seat belt PSA
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM]h/t Pete R. from Star of Life Law
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US Supreme Court to hear another “Ricci-type” case today
The justices will decide whether blacks who were not hired in Chicago because of their test scores are due damages for years of lost wages. "This case is the flip side of Ricci. It illustrates the tension that public employers face."
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Pre-FireGeezer Fire Geezers – 1943 FDNY Video
Here’s a video that might even make Bill feel young...
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3 Alarms Working in Gloucester, Massachusetts
The 3rd alarm was transmitted at 9:30.
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Plane Crashes, Burns House in Illinois
The plane crashed into a hanger that was attached to the house, setting both full ablaze.
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Monday Morning Shoutout – Life Under The Lights
This weeks Monday Morning Shoutout goes to Life Under The Lights or (LOTL).
His blog focuses on para-medicine, although he runs the occasional fire. His insight on EMS 2.0 is thought provoking and well examined. He has recently been involved with Justin and Mark in their latest videos "A Seat at the Table"...
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Adopt a Hydrant program flows
With all the snow in the northeast during this bitter winter a good old “Adopt a Hydrant” program was in order. I am happy to report that it was a big success, due in no small part to the new strength of the word “public” in public relations.
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Lidocaine
If we did not also carry Amiodarone, I would rank Lidocaine higher.
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Quick Drill: Thermal Imaging
The next time you go out on your apparatus to the grocery store or just sitting around the fire station take out your TIC and start learning to read the contrast in the pictures. Take one hot and one cold item and sit them in a room of a different ambien…
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Mass Casualty Bus Crash in Austria
A chain-reaction crash involving a bus and two trucks killed at least 6 people and seriously injured more than 30 others.
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