Posts Categorized: Ems Health Safety
Must see videos: Scores of explosions at Collingdale, Pennsylvania welding shop fire. Employees injured. Two old fire trucks destroyed.
Blasts forced evacuation of homes in the area.
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Requiescat in Pacem
Godspeed to Gayla Gregory, Kenneth Robertson, and Kenneth Myer, Jr.
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds...and done a hun…
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Quick Takes
Fire & EMS news fro Tuesday.
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Fireground audio from 4-alarm hi-rise fire in Houston with reported mayday. At least 5 firefighters hurt. Standpipe issues.
Fire was on the 27th floor.
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Quick Takes
Fire & EMS news for Monday.
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Shining through Suffering – Learning How to Cope with Sadness in EMS
Dealing with the level of sadness we see in EMS isn't something that comes naturally. It's a learned skill. Take your time and find your way. We're all nothing but human.
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Tweet! Personal Foul! Illegal Pronoun Use! Penalty: Three Flight’s Revenue!
U.S. Department of Transportation fines Mercy Flight of Oregon $30,000 for referring to a helicopter technically owned by another company as "our" helicopter.
They can fine a company for using a pronoun inappropriately, yet they can't mandate that the…
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Proposal Would Settle 1st Response Issues
BEAUFORT - After months of court-ordered mediation, the Burton Fire District, city of Beaufort and town of Port Royal have reached a proposed settlement detailing where the district will provide first-response services and at what cost to the municipalit…
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Gearing up for Tak Response
A first of it's kind conference, only a few weeks away. San Jose, CA Sept 14th-16th.
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Quick Takes
Fire & EMS news for Wednesday.
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Criteria based on what?
Code 3 for the cut finger, Patient is crying, Coded as a severe respiratory distress with bleeding.
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Fatal Head-on Collision Shuts Road
CHARLESTON - One person was fatally injured during a head-on-collision on Highway 61. South Carolina Highway Patrol reports the accident was just inside the Dorchester County line near Middleton Gardens.
County Coroner Chris Nisbet said that a pers…
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A message from the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation: Memorial Weekend is fast approaching.
Ways you can help honor 105 fallen firefighters.
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Around The Fire Web
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Firehouse Zen - Roto-Ray and Feder…
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6 EMT’s Downed by Acid Fumes
SIX ONTARIO, NEW YORK, AMBULANCE WORKERS had to be hospitalized Friday night after they inhaled fumes from muriatic acid that had been spilled as a result of a vehicle crash.
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EMT’s Surgery First in SC
CHARLESTON - MUSC surgeons today will use tiny video equipment to repair a spinal condition that 21-year-old Jason Schroyer has suffered with for nearly a decade -- the first surgery of its kind to be performed in SC, hospital officials said. Schroyer's …
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Byrne Not Happy With FD Direction
BEAUFORT - Former Beaufort Fire Marshal Dan Byrne said that for seven years, he helped build award-winning public-education programs that drew praise from departments throughout South Carolina and across the country.
But when changes in the department…
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Firefighter charged with speeding in fire engine leaves department. Chief was suspended following another driving incident.
Driver training ordered for the whole department.
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HIPAA issue: Firefighters & hospital workers are accused of photographing dying stabbing victim.
Hospital workers fired. Unclear on discipline for firefighters and paramedics.
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Chronicles Germany Style
German Paramedic Sascha Fehr hosted a Hungarian in their own version of CoEMS.
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Riley Ignorant of Routley Team Wanting Thomas Out?! Rigghhtt!
NOTE: The title of this story is loaded with sarcasm.
CHARLESTON - In the wake of the Sofa Super Store fire in June 2007, which took the lives of nine firefighters, Charleston Mayor Joe Riley said the city would be remembered for how it responded to the…
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Cross Fire Department Saves Day
CROSS - Fire Chief Clayton Cole in his most recent report to the board revealed that the Cross Rural Fire Department was called to a home where lightning had stuck. With all the recent afternoon and evening thunderstorms, there have been lightning strik…
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Beyond the Lights and Sirens
Real. Life. Emergencies.
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Quick Takes
Fire and EMS news for Tuesday.
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Upstate Company Makes Firefighting Fabric
ENOREE -- When Rhonda Hines goes to work she isn't just collecting a paycheck, she's protecting her stepson and soldiers like him.
Hines works at Inman Mills in Enoree, S.C. The company weaves yarn into fabric. From there, it's sent to another facili…
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