Tag result for article published on Sun August 14 2011 10:28 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: collapse, collapse rescue, EMS, EMT, fatality list, fire, fire rescue, firefighter, Firefighter Safety & Health, firefighting, fireground audio, high winds, Indiana, Indiana State Fair, Indiana State Police, Indianapolis, Marion County, news, paramedic, Rescues, severe thunderstorm, Special Operations, stage collapse, Sugarland, Technical Rescue, weather radar
High Definition (HD) video from Suglarland fan showing August 13, 2011, Sugarland Concert stage collapse at Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis, IN, USA. Fatality List … According the Marion County Coroner’s office, the following victims lost their lives when high winds hit the Indiana State Fairgrounds ahead of an approaching severe thunderstorm: Alina Bigjohny, 23, [...]
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Posted in Disaster Report, Weather
Tag result for article published on Sun August 14 2011 1:33 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: collapse, collapse rescue, EMS, EMT, fire, fire rescue, firefighter, Firefighter Safety & Health, firefighting, fireground audio, high winds, Indiana, Indiana State Fair, Indiana State Police, Indianapolis, news, paramedic, Rescues, severe thunderstorm, Special Operations, stage collapse, Sugarland, weather radar
High Definition (HD) video from Suglarland fan showing August 13, 2011, Sugarland Concert stage collapse at Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis, IN, USA. At least four people were reported killed and 43 injured when a metal and canvas stage collapsed during a severe thunderstorm with 60-70 mph winds. The storm approached as a Sugarland concert [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sat June 04 2011 9:58 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: EMS, heat illness, heat illness fatality, running race fatality
View Larger Map After collapsing in a half marathon, Zachary Gregory, 22, was transported from the 7500 block of S. South Shore Drive to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 9:52 a.m. Saturday, June 4, 2011. Zach Taylor was a licensed physical therapist with a Doctor of Physical Therapy [...]
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Posted in Fire/Rescue/EMS Notebook
Tag result for article published on Fri May 27 2011 4:13 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Chicago, Chicago Fire Department, collapse at running race, EMS, medical emergency
Ralph Nosal of Elk Grove Village has been identified as a man who collapsed near Columbus and Lake Shore Drive and died during the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge in downtown Chicago Thursday. Ralph Nosal, 61, was transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was prounounced dead. An autopsy was scheduled for Friday. Nosal was [...]
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Tag result for article published on Wed February 02 2011 11:34 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: ambulance stuck in snow, emergency vehicle stuck in snow, EMS, F-250, Ford, Ground Hog Day Blizzard, Ground Hog Day Blizzard 2011, pickup truck towing, rescue squad, rescue squad stuck in snow, towing a rescue squad, towing an ambulance
An Arlington Heights Fire Department rescue ambulance and rescue squad are towed out by a fire department utility truck during the Ground Hog Day Blizzard of 2011. Fire departments from Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Rolling Meadows, Wheeling and others among the brotherhood had one extra thing in common last night — their [...]
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Posted in FIRE BLOG, Weather
Tag result for article published on Sat November 27 2010 8:48 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Buffalo Grove High School, cheerleader injury, EMS, high school sports injury, sports injury, sports trauma
Buffalo Grove police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 5:20 PM Saturday to a report of an injured cheerleader at Buffalo Grove High School, 1100 West Dundee Road. Police and firefighter/paramedics responded to a report that a female cheerleader was accidentally kicked in the head and unconscious for a short time in the fieldhouse at Buffalo Grove [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sat October 09 2010 8:28 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: emergency medicine, EMS, mass casualty, tags, triage, Word of the Day
Chicago Fire Department and area suburban fire departments, including Arlington Heights Fire Department, use color coded tags to triage victims for treatment and transportation demands. RED TAGS – IMMEDIATE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT REQUIRED for victims who cannot survive without immediate treatment and have a chance of survival. YELLOW TAGS – Victims are treated and under [...]
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Posted in Word of the Day
Tag result for article published on Mon October 04 2010 5:32 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: defibrillation, EMS, endotracheal intubation, FIRE OPS 101, firefighter training, firefighting demonstration, fireground, live fire, paramedic, paramedic demonstration, paramedics, tracheal intubation
VIDEO OF LIVE FIRE OPERATIONS includes Arlington Heights Trustee Bert Rosenberg and Assistant Village Attorney Robin Ward entering a training structure with live fire inside — with Trustee Thomas W. Hayes and Village Manager Bill Dixon observing (Video available in HD/see right of video control bar. Watch any of the videos on this page in [...]
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Tag result for article published on Thu June 11 2009 6:49 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: altercation, anger, EMS, police
Video showing Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper fight with Creek Nation EMT-Paramedic Maurice White, Jr. UPDATE: DASH CAM RELEASED from Oklahoma Highway Patrol (Available on FOXNEWS …) On Sunday May 24, 2009 Kenyada Davis, whose mother was in the back of a Creek Nation ambulance en route to the hospital without lights and sirens, shot a [...]
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