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Maryland paramedics under review after pronouncing a man dead who wasn’t. Second such case in Prince George’s County in as many months.
Today's incident follows a car crash and fire on I-95 where a man was initially pronounced dead who was still alive.
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Product Alert!
From the man with the hardest to pronounce handle in the blogosphere, comes this:
Available on tee shirts and bumper stickers here.
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Buildingsonfire reaches Milestone
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Addresses on Inspections
Then I look at my list and see the same numerics on another inspection form with a different business name. This is what I find.....
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Early pictures from Virginia Beach fire. Art store and apartment damaged.
Fire brought under control in about 20 minutes.
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Good Samaritan Arrested
witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville, trying to resuscitate...
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Ambulance Crash, Rollover in Milan
The ambulance that was responding to a hospital with a patient onboard ran a red light at a high speed...
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The Fire Station
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa782kH7ums
Here's an interesting perspective on a typical 24 hours at the fire station. This was originally posted at STATter911 and is a great time lapse video of a day in the life of the Leesburg Volunteer Fire Comp…
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Weekend Caption Contest
We don't know what is really going on here.
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Friday Shopping Report
The TV receives both analog and digital over-the-air broadcasts plus it has a front-loading DVD player.
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Watch as firefighters get one off top floor of burning Milford, Massachusetts apartment building. Lots of video and pictures.
Three-alarm fire guts apartment building.
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The sky didn’t fall…. again.
This wasn’t the first time I had been duped by these Chicken Littles. Yet another cataclysmic apocalypse fizzled out. What's going to happen when we're faced with a true pandemic crisis and no one heeds the warnings?
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Just Say Yes!
We were able to get her into the chair, out the door and into the rescue while she seized. In retrospect, I would have started the IV in her bedroom and administered the Versed there, but things always are more clear after the fact.
She hadn't had any s…
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Operational Safety at Buildings Under Renovation
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F_rSeUQQYM
A multiple alarm fire consumed the county courthouse in downtown Pittsboro, North Carolina yesterday. The building was undergoing renovations at the time of the fire and was occupied and operational. The fir…
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Highway Crash Kills 11 In Kentucky
A TRACTOR-TRAILER TRAVELING SOUTH ON I-65 in Kentucky inexplicably drove across the median strip and ran head-on into a church van filled with adults and children.
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At least 11 dead in fiery crash in Kentucky. Big rig and van collide on I-65 near Munfordville.
Truck crosses median and wipes out large family heading to a wedding. Two children survive.
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Oops! Video of the day. Locomotive dangles over water. Bridge was in the ‘up’ position.
The video of the day (so far).
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Off-Duty Fire Captain Critical After Multi-Vehicle Accident
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, FIRE CAPTAIN ERNIE LIZARRAGA is hospitalized in critical condition following a fiery crash involving a dump truck and eight motorcycles.
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More Pittsburgh Woes
ANOTHER PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, FIREFIGHTER has been arrested and is in jail awaiting an arraignment this morning
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Essential Equipment
Peter Canning at Streetwatch: Notes of a Paramedic has been doing a regular series of the most essential meds in his drug box.
Not unusually, well over half of the drugs he carries never get used. That happens with quite a bit of the equipment we carr…
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Morning Lineup – March 26
It's a computer-generated animation showing the brief flight of US Airways flight 1549 that ditched in the Hudson River in January 2009.
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A Volunteer Fire PIO must have a redundant “tool box”
As a volunteer fire department PIO, and not in house based, I have to be prepared to respond from wherever I am in the community when an alarm is toned out. Since my main PIO “toolbox” is located at the main house, I need a fully redundant system that can duplicate some of the items I keep in the firehouse.
At the firehouse I have a large camera bag that holds the following items –
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