Aren’t we supposed to learn from the mistakes of others? Yesterday we reported on still another ambulance crash at an intersection (HERE) and it resulted in the death of the driver of the private auto that was T-boned by the ambulance. The intersection was controlled by a traffic light, so somebody had the red signal.
So far, the police have not publicly released the cause, but that doesn’t matter right now. The point is, the end result was tragedy and from this I would hope that other emergency drivers would just keep this in mind when you’re going through any intersection. Recently we have also reported on fatal crashes where the ambulances and fire trucks have all been doing the right thing, but someone who wasn’t doing the right thing pulled out into their paths anyway. There is so much to watch out for when you’re driving out there. I don’t need to tell you this, you already know it. I just want to nudge you so that you don’t forget.
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I want to remind you that tomorrow we’ll begin our Mondays With Twitter series. We will all be learning along together here, so if you’re a Twitter pro, we’re hoping that you’ll pitch in and help us out. FossilMedic and I are convinced that Twitter is going to be a valuable tool for emergency communications and planning, so let’s all get ready to be on the leading edge of emergency Twittering. We’ve even made a separate posting Category for it already. You can see it in our Category listing on the right sidebar.
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Something that we all appreciate is a good photograph. Friday night an architecturally significant barn in Livonia, New York, burned. It was noted for its Gothic design and was about 170 years old. A local fire photographer, Jeffrey Arnold was there and took some pictures, two of which he posted on his Flickr page and I would encourage you to go take a look at them. I don’t have permission to reproduce them here, so I’ll put up a thumbnail of one of them just to tease you.
Now click on Firephoto25′s Flickr page HERE to see them. Take a look around at some of his other work while you’re there.
Before you get involved in all that, though, let’s get this equipment checked out. I need to get a fresh pot going and check on the Sunday breakfast.
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