Posts Tagged: Cell Phone
Captain uses national TV to apologize for firefighter taking cell phone video of dead woman. Why did it take eight months for Spalding County, Georgia to tell Dayna Kempson’s family they’re sorry?
Does being the fire department mean never having to say you're sorry?
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Is this a good law that’s a victim of bad reporting, fueled by a lawmaker’s hyberbole? Or is this an attack on the First Amendment by the Illinois house?
Articles say one thing, but the reality may be different.
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Spalding County, Georgia official says report calls for at least one person to be fired over cell phone video of dead woman. Suspended firefighter identified.
County officials horrified that parents were exposed to this video.
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Report finished into Spalding County, Georgia firefighter who took video of dead woman. Dayna Kempson-Schacht’s dad says he is working with congressional leaders to keep 1st responders from taking & sharing video.
Firefighter may learn fate as early as today.
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Outside investigator brought into Spalding County, Georgia cell phone video case. County attorney calls it ‘a grave error in judgement’.
Firefighter remains on suspension.
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Quick Takes
Fire & EMS news for Wednesday.
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TMI: Are we creating distracted drivers in our apparatus?
Like a litter of eleven puppies fighting for six nipples, we've been inundated with computers, map routing and GPS devices, cell phones, and multiple radio stacks- all competing for our attention while responding. How much is too much?
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Firefighter says he wanted picture for his son. More on the controversial photo from Winnipeg.
Firefighter investigated for posing for picture in front of a burning home in Winnipeg tells his story.
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Cell Phone GPS Leads Rescue Effort
IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, A MAN WHO WAS using a storm drain for a shortcut got lost in the darkness and needed help.
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Driven to distraction: Driver on cell phone passes stopped vehicle and hits responding Christiana, Delaware ladder truck. Also, a bonus video from the area.
Report of driver on cell phone hits responding ladder truck in Delaware. Video from the scene and from another fire in the area.
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THEY are Listening to Ray
West Lanham Hills video uses elements of McCormack's FDIC Culture of Extinguishment speech. From the 28/48 website: "This Video is dedicated to the guys who continue to get the trucks on the street, day in and day out. Guys here use motivation, brotherhood, pride and ownership to help see them through the toughest of times, on and off the job."
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Ambulance Gets a Cow
Kentucky State Police said the ambulance struck a cow in the road early Tuesday
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Head-On Crash With Ambulance Kills One
A 64-YR.-OLD TAMPA, FLORIDA, MAN DIED THIS MORNING after an ambulance crashed head-on into his pickup truck Monday night. The man was carrying his two grandsons home from a Boy Scout meeting and had stopped for some milkshakes at a fastfood restaurant.…
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Memorable Blaze in Oklahoma
A MASSIVE FIRE IN AN APARTMENT PROJECT UNDER construction in Edmond, Oklahoma last night has already been described as the city's largest fire in memory.
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Today’s Safe Driving Award …
The one-fingered hoon was seen holding a mobile phone in each hand and driving his car with his knees while travelling through the Eastlink tunnel
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Fire Prevention? What’s That?
But unfortunately the NFPA's messages on fire safety and fire prevention aren't making it into the offices of the Boston Globe newspaper.
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Around the Fire Web
his Quick Takes this morning is loaded with gems like the update on the infamous Gregson Street Guillotine in Durham.
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Morning Lineup – October 19