THE VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS HAD BEEN SENT TO NORTHERN BUTLER COUNTY FOR WATER RESCUES WHEN THEIR BOAT FLIPPED. ...It's amazing when things go wrong, your training kicks in." By MICHAEL MOLITORIS About two hours after Emlenton firefighters were dispatched to northern Butler County … [Read more...]
EMS RUN… GOES FROM CARBON MONOXIDE EMERGENCY TO FIREFIGHTER INJURED
The call started out as an emergency medical call. A male subject was non-responsive at the bottom of a flight of stairs in a basement. The man had been working on cutting out a set of concrete stairs. He had been using a concrete cutting chain saw and the carbon momoxide had … [Read more...]
THEY WERE DISPATCHED TO AN "UNKNOWN MEDICAL AND…
"... she reached out and pulled out a pistol..."As most of our responses now are EMS related, I thought I would share an experience with you that confronted my 3 man engine company when we were dispatched to an "unknown medical". It truly reinforced the fact that there is no such … [Read more...]
FIRE CHIEF CLEARED OVER DEATH
The head of Greater Manchester Fire Service has been cleared of neglect after the death of a firefighter who tried to save a drowning teenager.Paul Metcalf, 40, drowned in September 1999 as he tried to rescue 15-year-old Reyaz Ali from a small lake in Holcombe Brook, Bury.His … [Read more...]
'FAILURES' CAUSED FIREMAN'S DEATH
A firefighter drowned while trying to rescue a teenage boy from a lake because of "a catalogue of failures" by his brigade, a court has heard. 10-11-04-Sub-Officer Paul Metcalf died as he tried to save student Reyaz Ali from the lake in Holcombe Brook in Bury, Greater Manchester, … [Read more...]
WIRES? YES-TREAT THEM AS IF THEY ARE ALWAYS HOT… UNTIL THE POWER COMPANY SAYS THEY ARE NOT!
We were dispatched mutual aid to an MVA with entrapment. It was in early morning hours. Weather conditions played a factor, it was foggy and damp. On arrival we found a cargo van up against an utility pole. The pole was broken and was laying across the top of the van. The driver … [Read more...]
THEY WERE DISPATCHED TO AN
THEY WERE DISPATCHED TO AN "UNKNOWN MEDICAL AND... "... she reached out and pulled out a pistol..."As most of our responses now are EMS related, I thought I would share an experience with you that confronted my 3 man engine company when we were dispatched to an "unknown medical". … [Read more...]