A BENSALEM, PENNSYLVANIA, PARAMEDIC WAS KILLED SUNDAY NIGHT after an interaction with a mental patient. Early reports said that he was stabbed, but later stories indicate that it might have been a different cause. The story is still very fluid, but JEMS Connect is staying with it and will be updating as more facts are reported. CLICK HERE to see JEMS posting which has several links and a video report is now in the following update. Updated, 11:20 am: It is now determined that the medic died from a head injury, but no weapon was involved. JEMS.com now has the updated report and additional video HERE.
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A 51-YR.-OLD VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER IN Borrodino, New York, died Saturday night while he was responding to a building collapse call in his 2nd-due territory. From the Signal99.com forum: The Borodino Rescue Pumper was enroute to Spafford for a call. While enroute, they had a 51 male onboard having difficulty breathing. They relayed this information to fire dispatch via cell phone because there isn’t a mobile radio installed in the rescue pumper.
They requested that a SAVES ambulance meet them at Spaffords fire station. A few minutes later, Spafford base advised fire dispatch to tell SAVES to make their best time and that it was now a full arrest. There was no fire radio in the new truck because the county is in the midst of implementing a new digital radio system .
The Syracuse Post-Standard has the STORY.
Borodino Fire Department WEBSITE.
Hat tip: Harry H.
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A HONG KONG FIREFIGHTER WAS KILLED AND THREE MORE were critically injured at a factory fire Monday morning. The blaze broke out in a fifth-floor knitting factory in the Lai Cheong Factory Building at about 8.20am. Firefighters had difficulty fighting the fire, hampered by heavy smoke and many objects blocking their operations. 47-yr.-old Senior Fireman Yeung Chun-kit died after he was taken to the hospital.
Also on FireGeezer…
- LODD – Germany – April 6, 2011
- LODD in Italy – December 30, 2010
