WASHINGTON FIRE CHIEF DIES IN THE LINE OF DUTY-MEDICAL
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We regret to advise you that the Fire Chief in the small town of Mossyrock (Lewis County, WA) has died in the Line of Duty. Chief Matt Hadaller suffered a yet undetermined medical problem at his home while on-duty, on-call on last night He was taken to Morton General Hospital, and while en route to the hospital he suffered a cardiac arrest. Fire District 3 personnel and Morton General Hospital’s Emergency Department staff made a valiant effort to revive him, but sadly were unsuccessful. Services are scheduled for Saturday July 2, 2011, at the Mossyrock High School Football field, where Chief Hadaller had played quarterback for the Vikings’ football team. As always, our sincere condolences. RIP.
INDIANA FIRE CHIEF DUI KILLS CIVILIAN
A western Indiana Fire Chief is being held on a preliminary drunken driving charge after his car crashed into a house, killing a man and critically injuring his wife.
43-year-old Stacey Williamson was DOA at the scene of this mornings crash. His 46-year-old wife, Mary Williamson, was in critical condition at the hospital. Mecca (IN) Fire Chief Michael R. Collom, 38, was driving a 2006 Ford Mustang when he lost control of the car about 0445 hours and crashed into the Williamson’s home in the town of Mecca, entering their bedroom. Four children in the house were not injured. Chief Collom is being held without bail on a preliminary drunken driving charge.
43-year-old Stacey Williamson was DOA at the scene of this mornings crash. His 46-year-old wife, Mary Williamson, was in critical condition at the hospital. Mecca (IN) Fire Chief Michael R. Collom, 38, was driving a 2006 Ford Mustang when he lost control of the car about 0445 hours and crashed into the Williamson’s home in the town of Mecca, entering their bedroom. Four children in the house were not injured. Chief Collom is being held without bail on a preliminary drunken driving charge.
DOUBLE FATAL EMS CRASH IN OKLAHOMA
Two people died this afternoon when the car hey were riding in collided with an ambulance that was carrying a patient near Braggs OK. The EMT driving and patient were airlifted to a Tulsa hospital after suffering injuries in the crash. The crash happened about 1500 on State Highway 10 near Braggs, the two vehicles both had three occupants and collided head-on. 2 people in the car died and the third was airlifted to a Tulsa hospital in critical condition. The EMT driving the ambulance was in serious condition, the female patient in the back was in critical condition and A paramedic attending to the patient was taken to a Tahlequah hospital with non-life-threatening injuries
FIREFIGHTERS DISCOVER DYNAMITE AT FIRE SCENE
Firefighters operating at a large wildfire in south Georgia discovered 339 sticks of dynamite, and a U.S. Army bomb squad was called to detonate the explosives. The dynamite was found yesterday in a 1940’s bunker-like structure near the pen that holds black bears at the Okefenokee Swamp Park,
The dynamite was uncovered as firefighters prepared to conduct a back burn in the park area and were clearing out areas around the black bear pen when they came across the explosives.
The park is about eight miles south of Waycross.
The park is about eight miles south of Waycross.
UPDATE: FDNY DEUTSCHE BANK FIRE DOUBLE LODD
Today a Manhattan jury cleared foreman Salvatore DePaola of charges that he should have known a crucial water standpipe was damaged in the former Deutsche Bank building at Ground Zero which caught fire in August 2007, killing 2 firefighters in the Line of Duty.
The jury was still deliberating the case of Jeffrey Melofchik, the building site safety manager, who like DePaola was charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the blaze.
Also charged are the building’s toxin cleanup director Mitchell Alvo and the Galt Corp., the subcontractor that employed Alvo and DePaola. They have chosen to have Judge Rena Uviller, not the jury, rule on their cases and the judge has not yet ruled. The jury found DePaola not guilty of all charges.
Firefighters Robert Beddia, 53, and Joseph Graffagnino, 33, died in the Line of Duty of smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning when they became trapped in the nine-floor fire.
The defense argued that the construction managers removing asbestos could not have anticipated the circumstances that led to the firefighters’ deaths.
They had argued that if local government inspectors had repeatedly failed to identify a damaged water pipe in the basement, it was unreasonable to expect construction supervisors with less expertise to recognize the potential danger. The defense argued that the conditions were caused not by a lack of water but by a fan system that pulled smoke downward, leaving firefighters blind and disoriented.
The jury was still deliberating the case of Jeffrey Melofchik, the building site safety manager, who like DePaola was charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the blaze.
Also charged are the building’s toxin cleanup director Mitchell Alvo and the Galt Corp., the subcontractor that employed Alvo and DePaola. They have chosen to have Judge Rena Uviller, not the jury, rule on their cases and the judge has not yet ruled. The jury found DePaola not guilty of all charges.
Firefighters Robert Beddia, 53, and Joseph Graffagnino, 33, died in the Line of Duty of smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning when they became trapped in the nine-floor fire.
The defense argued that the construction managers removing asbestos could not have anticipated the circumstances that led to the firefighters’ deaths.
They had argued that if local government inspectors had repeatedly failed to identify a damaged water pipe in the basement, it was unreasonable to expect construction supervisors with less expertise to recognize the potential danger. The defense argued that the conditions were caused not by a lack of water but by a fan system that pulled smoke downward, leaving firefighters blind and disoriented.
Take Care-BE CAREFUL.
BillyG
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