Posts Categorized: Response Times
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The need for additional resources including ambulances, stations, and medics to operate them, has come about for several reasons.
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Do You Trust Your Firetruck? How Much?
And the people in the northeast suburb of Eltham will remember it as the day the firetruck drove into the flood waters.
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Morning Lineup – December 27
Just how important is an ambulance, anyway?
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Morning Lineup – December 24
There is no lack of towns that have incompetent politicians that run the treasury dry and then try to blame the city employees for their failures.
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This Really Messes Up the Response Time Averages
A WOMAN IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND, WAS SURPRISED, then upset, and now is disgusted after an ambulance arrived at her house for a scheduled transport to take her husband to a medical facility.
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Ohhhhh…. It’s the Geography!
THE WALES AMBULANCE SERVICE IN UK HAS been under constant criticism for more than two years for its extraordinarily-long response times that are consistantly the worst in the UK.
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Ambulance Penalized for Poor Response Time
Apparently the brandishing of the cricket bat was the tipping point because the crowd then set upon the three ambulance workers and beat them up while they trashed the ambulance.
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4 Infants Perish as Baby Sitter Bails Out
One of the children lived there and the others were being watched by the child's father, a 28-yr.-old man who was cooking something and fell asleep.
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“Where’s That &%*$@* Ambulance?”
PERHAPS AMBULANCE RESPONSE TIMES NEED TO be taken a little more seriously in Macon, Georgia.
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One Plane Looks Like Any Other
AN AUSTRIAN AIRLINES (AUA) BOEING 777 was enroute from Tokyo to Vienna Wednesday when a 90-yr.-old woman took seriously ill. The pilot radioed to Helsinki-Vantaa Airport in Finland requesting an emergency landing and calling for an ambulance to meet th…
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D. O. S. Attack Hits Twitter
POPULAR SOCIAL FORUM TWITTER is undergoing a sustained denial-of-service attack this morning. It began sometime before 8 am Eastern and is continuing as this posting is being written at noontime.
WIRED looked into it shortly after it began and wrote:
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Firetruck Rollover in Texas
IN HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, (HOUSTON AREA) A Spring Volunteer Fire Dept. engine was responding to a motorcycle accident Wednesday afternoon when a van pulled out in front of it. Despite an evasive maneuver by the fire engine operator, they collided and t…
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"Bridge-Breaker" Ambulances Required to Detour
THE LATEST ADDITIONS TO THE GREAT WESTERN AMBULANCE SERVICE fleet in Great Britain are too heavy for Bristol's most famous bridge. The historic suspension bridge was designed and built by famous engineer Isambard Brunel 150 years ago. While it remain…
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Pre-Planning the Desert
BERNALILLO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, FIREFIGHTERS ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE of recent refinements of modern technology to improve response capabilities in the desert. Anybody who has driven through the wild west knows that you can travel for miles on end on unimp…
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End of a Noble Effort
When he was appointed as the Baltimore Fire Chief, Jim Clack became a frequent poster on TheWatchDesk, a privately-owned discussion board. Not anymore:
Baltfirechief Signing Off
I have spent a little over a year on the Watchdesk, reading and posting on …
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Fiery Crash Kills 1, Grills Thousands … of Steaks
A TRACTOR-TRAILER CARRYING A FULL LOAD of frozen steaks lost control in Fullerton, California, Thursday night and crashed on a major freeway starting a fire and shutting down the highway in both directions.
The crash occurred around 7 pm Pacific time wh…
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Morning Lineup – July24
It's Show Time
FossilMedic (left), GeezerDotter and Firegeezer
are ready to meet and greet.
Well, we got off to a good start yesterday. Thanks to Mike Legeros for recording the opening day activities and taking the photo above. You can see that …
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Letting Tulsa Burn
THE TULSA, OKLAHOMA, FIREFIGHTERS HAVE GRUDGINGLY approved a new labor contract with the city that will require each of the 685 firefighters to endure eight furlough days in the coming year. But the City Council is apparently not ready to stop decimat…
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Morning Lineup – July 13
I've got some unrelated loose-ends to drop on you this morning. I promise that they won't take long. First of all, Monday won't be disrupted by the Tour de France. Today is a rest day for the cyclists, and it's probably a good thing after yesterday…
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Around the Fire Web
* Dave Statter, editor of STATter911 has been spending most of the week hanging around Prince George's County, Maryland, fire houses more than in the past 30 years as he follows the strange story of the "mystery brown-outs" as the staffing troubles con…
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Smoke Detector Recall
ON JULY 9 THE U. S. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION announced that Kidde has issued a recall of one of their models of smoke detectors.
The Walter Kidde Portable Equipment Inc. of Mebane, N.C., has initiated a voluntary recall of 94,000 units of thei…
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Look Up … Look Up
This event took place three days ago, but we're running it anyway because of the lessons that can be learned - or re-learned. Firegeezer.
KSL-TV
TWO COMPANIES OF FIREFIGHTERS CAN CONSIDER THEMSELVES LUCKY today following this close call in West Jorda…
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LODD – Edinburgh, Scotland
Updated. FF identified and more video added. Scroll down.
A FIREFIGHTER FROM THE LOTHIAN AND BORDERS FIRE SERVICE perished early Sunday morning while fighting a fire in an Edinburgh pub.
The Balmoral Pub was closed when the alarm was sounded shortl…
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Firehouse, or Honeymoon Cottage?
THE SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY (VIRGINIA) FIRE AND RESCUE DEPARTMENT is a combination department undergoing a steady transition from an all-volunteer organization. Located 50 miles south of Washington, D. C., the county is rapidly transforming from a rural, f…
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Shock … followed by purposeful action