A KATY, TEXAS, TEENAGER IS HOSPITALIZED this morning and an I-10 Fire Department pumper is laid up for a long stay in the truck hospital following the 18-yr.-old’s driving her car into the front end of the fire engine.
KRIV-TV image
Police say that she was driving westbound on the Interstate 10 service road and “texting” when she drove through a red traffic light and smashed into the front end of the West I-10 Fire Department truck that was traveling southbound from SH 99. Two firefighters were treated for minor injuries and released.
A MERCER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER has been arrested and jailed, charged with setting four fires between May 2 and May 15.
Christopher Michael Grant, 19, was a member of the Jackson Center VFD. The State Police investigators say that he has confessed to torching two garages, a Dairy Queen storage shed, and a trash dump.
He is being held in Mercer County jail on $40,000 bond.
FIREFIGHTERS IN ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA, had their hands full yesterday (Thursday) when a storage facility packed with cardboard boxes burned.
AdelaideNow
The fire started around 10:25 am while there were six employees inside who all escaped safely. The building is used by the Amcor company that makes cardboard boxes to store their product that is awaiting sale and shipping.
The 150-ft. by 300-ft.-long building was well-involved when the first units arrived on the scene. The fire escalated to four alarms bringing 60 firefighters to the scene. The response orders are similar to those in North America:
1st alarm was 3 engines, 1 aerial and a District Officer (batt chief)
2nd alarm was transmitted enroute bringing another 3 engines (one being a skyjet) another aerial, communications bus, SCBA Tender and Commander (divisional chief)
3rd alarm was transmitted not long after arrival bringing 3 more engines.
4th alarm was transmitted about 30 mins into the job, again 3 more engines, workshops van, Assistant Chief, and various PODS for welfare and salvage.
AdelaideNow
Because of the nature of the fire load, the blaze continued to smoulder for many hours after it was knocked down. It hasn’t yet been determined what the cause was, but it is not believed to be suspicious. Damages are estimated to be AU$5 million.
The Weekly Times Messenger has MORE.
NewsChannel 7 has some raw video HERE.
A headline caught my eye yesterday announcing an agreement between Toyota and Tesla Motors. The big “T” is purchasing a major stake in the electric “T” for $50 million and they will be partnering on production and sales of the leading contender in the electric automobile business.
I’ve been watching the progress of the Tesla for the past two years or more, because they appear to be “doing it right.” They are taking the concept of an all-electric vehicle and starting from scratch instead of trying to convert existing cars into electric configurations like the major car manufacturers have been doing. They began with two major goals in mind, the car must be able to travel a fair distance on a charge, and they must be easily re-charged in a reasonable amount of time.
The Tesla Roadster
They did this by assembling a battery pack that is essentially nothing more than 6,800 lithium-ion batteries wired up in series, similar to what are used in laptop computers. The recharging is also simple, using a plug-in station in your own home. A full charge can be acquired in about 3 hours using a 220 v. plug-in unit (provided with the purchase of a car currently). But this is being improved on already. The practical range for their sports roadster which is already in production is about 220 miles. With the rapid advances being made in battery design these days, I am speculating that before long, not only will the range for a charge expand, but it’s likely that a (slower) charge will be possible with a 110 v. outlet making for universal ability to get recharged.
This video report is a good introduction to the Tesla roadster and it shows the layout and amenities that come with it:
One thing that every review I’ve read on the Tesla comments on is the remarkably fast response to the accelerator. With an electric motor you have instant torque without having to bring the rpm’s up to speed. The Tesla goes from 0 to 60 mph in less than 4 seconds. And it’s completely silent, making for another personal adjustment for the driver.
The roadster was the first model to go into production and as of this past December they have delivered 900 cars to purchasers. This initial model sells for about $102,000, but the 4-door sedan that is expected to be available next year will cost around $55,000. The current production line is a bit complicated as they bring the company up to speed. The body panels are made in France and shipped to the Lotus factory in UK where the chassis are made. Lotus assembles the body onto the chassis and adds things like the dashboard, air bags, etc. Then the units are flown to San Mateo, California, where Tesla has its headquarters and the American-made electric motors and transmissions are installed.
The Model S sedan will be available in 2011.
This new agreement with Toyota that was announced yesterday (Thursday) is a super-big advance for Tesla. Not only are they getting a $50 million cash infusion into the business, but they are gaining access to Toyota’s now-dormant assembly plant in Fremont, California, not far from Tesla company headquarters, where the autos will be fully built eliminating the trans-world assembly scheme. And Toyota instantly leap-frogs ahead of all the other car companies by getting access to an already-developed electric car that is more practical than any of the others being toyed with. Not to mention the massive network of dealerships that is already in place. This was one smart move by Tesla….and Toyota.
Now we need to make a smart move and get this equipment checked out. I’m going to start up the electric coffee maker and get a fresh pot started. See you back in the day room.
This is the second daily report of a 3-week series chronicling the adventures of F. G. Gnome as he travels with his boss Steve Marshall chasing storms in Tornado Alley in Oklahoma and Kansas during the tornado season. His first report sent in yesterday can be seen HERE. So check with us each day for the latest adventure from the G.A.A.S. (Gnome Atmospheric Adventure Squad).
HI, EVERYBODY. OUR ADVENTURE IS STARTING TO REALLY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL TODAY. First I want to tell you about a nice treat that Steve gave us the other day on our way down here. We stopped by the world-famous pop art sculpture known as CAR HENGE. It’s an array of automobiles that have been half-buried in the Texas desert and people come from all over to look at it, play on the cars, and spray paint their own grafitti on the artwork.
Yesterday we moved on up to Oklahoma trying to catch a nasty-looking storm cell.
We chased from Guymon Oklahoma down into deep south Oklahoma and caught several small touch downs but missed the big tornado near Hennessy Ok.
But we did find this monster. Fortunately for the people below, it never sent the spout down to ground.
We are headed up into Kansas today to get into position for a major storm system expected to come through on Saturday. My boss told me that if I behave myself we might stop by the Oklahoma State Fire Museum today, so I’m trying real hard to be good. I’ll let you know tomorrow if we do it. See you then.
F. G Gnome
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A MAJOR REGIONAL DISASTER DRILL for the North Region of France was held on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week. The 60-hour exercise brought in more than 300 firefighters who have been trained in emergency operations such as collapses during spontaneous or provoked landslides, explosions, earthquakes or other natural events. The French equivalent of US&R teams drilled both day and night in special scenarios that were provided in six different locations around the Flanders and Lilles area.
This exercise simulated the 2010 NORTH SD disaster resulting from an event of climatic type strong winds or storms causing some buildings to collapse, like for the Hautmont tornado that hit the Val de Sambre in August 2008 or the recent storm Xynthia.
SDIS 59 photo
The rescue challenges faced different configurations of intervention during which they will implemented all techniques to locate, rescue and evacuate victims for which they were trained. The different scenarios allowed the rescuers, firefighters, and paramedics to work in close collaboration with Cynotechniques, the Group Recognition in Urban Underground, and the Health Department and Emergency Medical in order to assess the operational capability of the civil defense agencies engaged on an inter-departmental exercise.
The people who participated in this drill were sorted into groups:
RESCUE UNIT CLEARING – 10 rescuers divided into five pairs and supervised by a unit head.
THE RESCUE OF CLEARING SECTION – 33 men divided into three units and supervised by a section chief.
THE SPECIALIZED SECONDMENTS – made as needed from units or sections that operate on a national or international team in the course of events as in the catastrophic earthquake of Haiti, with autonomy for 48 hours and water and food rations for five days to guarantee their own logistical needs.
The drill was organized and presented by the fire department SDIS 59. Their webpage for the drill isHERE.
There is a 14-page .pdf document posted HERE that outlines the entire exercise. If you don’t read French, it’s still interesting for all the photos that are in it.
News site Nord Eclair has two pages of photos HERE and HERE.
AN EXTENSIVE FIRE IS BURNING IN THE CITY CENTER of Baldwin, New York, in Nassau County. The fire is burning just a half-block from the firehouse and involves several buildings that are mostly commercial occupancies.
The fire started only an hour ago around 9 am and five FD’s are currently on the scene. There is no other information available so far.
WNYW-TV Ch. 5 NYC has its news helicopter overhead streaming live video back to the station. They have just filed this video report from the scene:
A MAJOR FIRE BROKE OUT IN GAYLORD, MICHIGAN, Wednesday night that threatened an entire section of town.
The fire started around 9 pm in a vacant lumber yard warehouse and it had the building fully involved within minutes. When the FD first arrived they faced a major fire burning and spreading to exposures.
First-in units were greeted by an old storage building fully involved.
(Heritage Broadcasting image)
As mutual aid departments arrived, the FF’s did a remarkable job of containing the fire and they had it knocked down in about an hour. There were more than 100 firefighters on the scene and every FD in Otsego County had units on the job along with crews and aerial trucks from the Boyne City and Grayling fire departments.
The fire also destroyed another building housing a consignment shop and damaged eight other businesses along with a nearby apartment building. The residents of the apartments were all evacuated safely, but they are unable to return to their occupancies.
WOOD-TV Ch. 8 Grand Rapids filed this early video report from the scene:
The state fire marshal is on the scene today looking for the cause.
LAST EVENING THE PUBLISHER OF STATter911, Dave Statter announced publicly that he will soon be retiring from his employment at Channel 9 News. Dave has worked at the Gannett-owned CBS affiliate WUSA-TV for 25 years and has established himself as a popular and trusted journalist. After spending all those years in front of the camera lens, he is instantly recognized throughout the Washington, D. C. area and is respected by literally millions of viewers over the years.
Throughout his career of covering stories and conducting interviews of every imaginable topic, he has consistently been assigned to cover the public safety agencies including fire, EMS, and police stories. Those assignments were first earned based on his many years as a volunteer firefighter in Maryland and his acquisition of the CCT rating when that new advancement toward paramedic skills first became available. In that time he has earned the trust and admiration of firefighters and paramedics in all departments along the mid-Atlantic seaboard.
Reading the lead-in of his announcement HERE, you might first think that the website is about to be retired also. But that is not the case. Dave will not only be continuing with STATter911, but he will be making it better and introducing some things, I’m sure, that he’s always wanted to do with the website.
But for now he has to undergo the windup of operations at Broadcast House and share some memories with his co-workers. I hope the station broadcasts one of those “career-in-review” stories that they usually do as a send-off for retiring reporters. I want to see some of those early clips from when he was really skinny. I’ve kind of forgotten what he looked like back then.
But I want to pass along a heartfelt “Congratulations, Dave!” for a wonderfully successful career and the best of luck with your next one.
IT APPEARS THAT THE DIGITAL IMAGE INDUSTRY has mostly agreed to stick with the SD (Secure Digital) cards for their data storage devices. For the first few years following the expansion of digital photography into mainstream use, everybody had their own memory cards and it was a mess for the consumer. When you bought a newer camera, suddenly your memory cards were obsolete and new ones were required. Not to mention the hassle of getting compliant card readers built into the computers.
But at last it’s looking more and more likely that the imaging industry is settling for one storage card that can serve all the related cameras and other devices such as MP3 gadgets, the SD card. And the more versatile SDHC card that fits the same slot yet has a much higher storage capacity, up to 32 GB. My first digicam had a “smart media” card and with a 32MB card it would store about 40 photos at the standard resolution setting. My newer camera that I got a few months ago has a 4 GB card and with an even higher resolution setting I can store 1,300 images on it. Amazing, isn’t it? I no longer need to carry my nice, padded metal card storage case in my camera bag. One card is more than enough for an entire vacation trip.
Howcast offers this handy primer on how to pick the right SD card for your device:
The Speed Class ratings that they are referring to are:
Class 2: 16 Mbit/s (2 MB/s)
Class 4: 32 Mbit/s (4 MB/s)
Class 6: 48 Mbit/s (6 MB/s)
Class 10: 80 Mbit/s (10 MB/s)
These new cards coupled with some great advances in battery technology, including lower power demands, take a big hassle out of personal photography now. Next, let’s hope they can simplify the camera to the point where we don’t need a 128-page user’s manual to figure out how to operate them.
It’s time to get the user’s checklist for this apparatus out now and the equipment checked out. I’m going to start some more coffee….really need it this morning. See you back in the day room.
A TRACTOR-TRAILER WAS PULLED OVER ON A LAY-BY on the A4 Milan – Brescia highway in Italy Tuesday evening when an auto drove at speed into the rear of the parked trailer.
The firefighters were challenged to extricate the body of the car’s driver from the wreckage in a lengthy operation.
YouReporter has posted this raw video taken at the scene after the body had been removed:
Tuesday morning, Los Angeles firefighter/paramedic Charles Anthony MacDougal received multiple stab wounds while treating a patient in front of a hotel in the area formally known as “Skid Row.” LATimes article HERE. Blogdowntown article HERE.
MacDougal has nine years on the job and works out of Fire Station 9. Before the stabbing MacDougal was to receive “Paramedic of the Year” award from County-USC hospital, where he was treated for his injuries. (LAist article HERE)
Urban EMS has always been tough, with a higher percentage of assaults and attacks on ems providers than in the suburbs.
JUST READ THE CHAPTERS
Street sense, defined as situation awareness and personal survival skills, is not one of the main topics in the National Curricula or a National Registry test station.
I used to teach the “Operations” block in the paramedic curriculum. Covered ambulance operations, (heavy) rescue awareness, incident management, hazardous materials and crime scene etiquette in four to six class contact hours.
It was at the end of the paramedic program, when both students and lead instructors are suffering from “senioritis.”
I did my best by using local information, student role playing (MCI tabletop) and vivid case studies, like the 2003 Epitome2 stampede in Chicago (21 dead, 65 seriously injured).
LITTLE MEASURABLE CHANGE IN BEHAVIOR
But the four module, 130 slide, three video presentation with hands-on activity was, at best, entertaining.
For the firefighter with two or more years on the job, it was a review with a strong EMS twist. For the 19 year old, it was trivia to regurgitate for an exam. The inexperienced has no reference or incidents that hold a deep personal importance.
Should ems providers get the same street survival skills our law enforcement colleagues receive?
DCmedicryan — April 25, 2010 — This video needs to be put into context as I fear it may be viewed the wrong way. The video was shot as a tribute for an end of the year banquet for a graduating class of paramedics.
If you follow the words, it is, in my opinion very creative as we follow a VSA protocol through the EMCA-P/ABC (in proper order mind you).
The lyrics took some time to piece together. As we know, this job, at times, can be stressful and overwhelming. Although it may seem like a joke to some, we in no way tried/want to tarnish the reputation any EMS service out there.
We also understand that patient care is a very serious matter and would NEVER do this sort of thing on the road. It is supposed to be fun and light-hearted.
This video is more of a representation of how stressful our labs can be, but it was shot, again, with humour in mind.
Firegeezer says: One of our frequent cyberspondents and contributors, Steve Marshall is a professional storm chaser. His credits include establishing the Discovery Channel’s severe weather section. Each spring when the “tornado season” begins inthe Tornado Alley of Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, he sets out to earn his pay by chasing down and recording the violent storms and tornadoes that rip through the area.
This year he is letting our newest correspondent, the Firegeezer Gnome, tag along and the little fellow will be sending us regular reports on their travels and experiences. They arrived in the Texas panhandle Monday and we’ll let F.G. Gnome take it from here:
Hello, Everybody! I’m glad you’re here and I hope you will follow our wild ride for the next 3 weeks. My boss Steve picked me up last weekend and I’ll be chronicling our adventure.
On the way down to Texas, we passed through Oklahoma City and naturally Steve, who has been in the fire service for decades, had to stop by a firehouse for a visit. We stopped in to Ladder 31′s quarters where we got this nifty picture. What do you think of it?
From there we continued on down to Amarillo, stopping at the state line rest area for a break.
Amarillo is in the panhandle of Texas and just twister away from the Oklahoma panhandle. We set up our first operations base there and started getting ready to work.
I’ll be back soon with the latest, so check back every day to see what we’re doing.
A PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA, TEENAGER was seriously burned Monday evening after her boyfriend tried to juice up an outdoor fire with gasoline. The Panama City News Heraldreports:
Paige Bomia, 19, told deputies that her boyfriend, a juvenile whose name and age were not released, was pouring gas on a log from a coffee cup. They were cooking in the backyard and having a bonfire. The fire ran up from the log and into the cup, and the boy threw the cup away “out of reaction,” the report said. The flaming gasoline splashed on Bomia, setting her on fire.
She suffered 2nd- and 3rd-degree burns over her chest and both arms. A passerby saw Bomia on fire and helped the boy extinguish the flames by rolling her on the ground. She was transported by Bay County EMS to the Bay Medical Center. No charges were filed.
A MAJOR FIRE IN THE FARM TOWN OF GREENUP, ILLINOIS, kept eight fire departments busy early Wednesday morning.
WTHI-TV
The fire was first discoverd around 10 pm Tuesday night in an old industrial building that housed a shoe factory for several decades. More recently it had been used as an “antiques” mall and currently was utilized as a plastics storage facility.
The fire drew down the town’s water so greatly that they are under a boil order today until the pressure and the storage can be replenished.
A DUQUESNE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE ambulance was involved in a collision at an intersection Tuesday morning, sending both ambulance personnel and the driver of the car that struck them to the hospital with minor injuries.
The ambulance was on the way to a call and traveling east on West Grant Avenue while the car was headed south on Route 837 in the fast lane. EMS personnel told police that the ambulance driver, Mary Vallus, 21, of Duquesne, looked both ways, saw traffic stopped and then proceeded through the intersection, Duquesne police secretary Lori Achtzehn said.
Brigitte Keegan, 32, of Sutersville, told police she saw the ambulance and tried to stop but lost control of her car on the wet roadway, Ms. Achtzehn said. The car slid into the intersection, and its right front struck the ambulance’s left front.
Just when you thought it was safe to go driving again….
A team of researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California San Diego decided to test the security of your automobile’s onboard computer system. They found out that hackers could not only easily access your car’s electronics, but they could literally take over your driving functions even if you were at the wheel and operating the car.
First of all, getting into the car was a snap for these guys. They easily disabled the keyless entry system and then attached a receiver to the car’s ODB-II port. That permitted them to access and control the entire system wirelessly. They were able to operated the brakes independently, taking control away from the driver. Driving alongside the hacked auto, they could apply the brakes or prevent them from being applied by the driver. They could even operated the brakes to each wheel independently, jamming on the left front brake, for example.
What got this study started was their mission to look into security issues pertaining to computers, especially related to possible terrorist activities. Most of the electronic functions in cars were designed and installed to improve driving safety and fuel consumption performance. For instance, did you know that there is a sensor installed in the exhaust system that monitors the oxygen content of the exhaust gas and then relays adjustments back to the fuel injection system to alter the fuel/air mixture?
Today, the average luxury car has 50 to 70 separate mini-computers all connected through one or more shared internal network buses. These computers not only control the brakes and fuel mixture, but the stereo system, the GPS receiver/transmitter, and “nice” little accessories such as the Bluetooth adapter. You can quickly see that there is no limit to the amount of mischief that could be done with this basic intrusion.
One of their stunts was to wirelessly embed a code that would trigger the system to automatically perform a function, such as suddenly speeding up to 90 mph, then after a crash (triggering an airbag, for example) the malicious code would erase itself leaving no evidence at all that it was ever there. Compounding the problem is that computer security experts are unfamiliar with the codes that are installed in automotive chips.
This research team has just published a 16-page summary report titled Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile. I haven’t had time to read it thoroughly yet, but I will. You can read it and download the .pdf document HERE. It gives you plenty to think about.
But right now we have to be thinking about getting this equipment checked out. I’m going to get some more coffee started, then we’ll meet back in the day room.
* Recently STATter911 ran a guest column written by Chief Bill Boyd, Bellingham, Washington FD. He joltingly lets you know how rapidly the duties of the department PIO are changing and expanding along with some provocative suggestions. If you missed it the other day, don’t miss it now. CLICK HERE to read it.
* FireNews.net has a story on a great knockdown on a church fire in North Carolina on Sunday HERE.
* Mick at FirehouseZen kicks of the (almost)Weekly Weasel column talking about Sgt. Webster HERE.
* JEMS has the story of a now-former ambulance driver who has been charged with stealing heart monitors off of other company’s ambulances HERE.
THREE PEOPLE WERE INJURED MONDAY AFTERNOON when a minivan collided with a Seattle Fire Department medic unit. The ambulance was making a turn onto a cross street when the van approached the intersection at a high speed and crashed into the medic which had it’s lights and siren activated.
KIRO-TV
According to police, the minivan was speeding when they struck. It then careened off into a utility pole and a small tree.
KIRO-TV
The identities of the three injured were not released. If we can get more information, the story will be updated.
WAYNE, NEW JERSEY, PARAMEDICS working for St. Joseph’s Wayne Hospital were stymied temporarily when they were prevented from responding on a call by a black bear guarding the bay door. When they were held up by the bear Monday morning, they called for police assistance to send the mama bear on her way, but by the time they arrived she had wandered off.
One of the medics snapped this pic of the paramedic bear
shortly after she scrubbed on the call and left the hospital.
Another ambulance already on the street took the call for the entrapped medics. Police found two cubs believed to belong to the reluctant volunteer and followed them for a couple of miles until they wandered off into the woods.
WABC-TV sent a video crew out to interview the paramedics and filed THIS STORY.
“WE SPENT A FORTUNE ON A GOOD SMOKE ALARM SYSTEM and this proves just how vital that is.”
Those were the words of Aidan Ruff, the owner of Ellingham Hall in Northumberland, England, yesterday after the fire brigade contained a fire that burned out a building attached to the main house, now used as a country hotel. Ellingham Hall dates back to the 17th Century with expansions over the centuries, one of which was the Victorian Chapel where fire broke out early Monday morning.
BBC News
The smoke alarms mentioned alerted the residents and more than a dozen guests in the main hall, and all of them were evacuated safely before the six fire engines arrived on the scene shortly after 4:30 am.
The fire is believed to have started in the Leisure Room which is connected to the 1890′s chapel. The fire quickly extended into the chapel itself prior to the arrival of the FD and it gutted the entire structure, fueled by the wooden buttresses and parquet floors. The firefighters’ efforts were directed to containing the blaze and successfully preventing it spreading to the main hall which is connected to it.
The Journal
The Northumberland Journal has the full STORY.
Northumberland Fire & Rescue WEBSITE.
Ellingham Hall WEBSITE.
We’re a little slow getting the lineup started this morning. I had to get some things finished that I put off last night, which had already been put off from the day before. You know how that goes.
Perhaps you’ve been seeing a lot of articles lately about Facebook’s latest problem with selling users’ personal information off to advertisers and other third parties. This latest stunt was particularly insidious because they were allowing the spammers access to your personal page even though you thought you had sealed it off. But this shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody. Facebook has a well-earned reputation for messing about with the users’ vital statistics along with keeping you confused by changing their format and rules every six weeks.
The best way to stay out of that food fight is to just not post your personal stats in the first place. This is true for every similar network, not just Facebook. Don’t put down the name of the place where you work, just list the general category such as, “emergency ambulance medic” and maybe the state or province you’re in. But nothing specific. This type of intrusion has been going on since the advent of the world wide web. Facebook is currently the biggest target for the spammers for two primary reasons. First, Facebook is too eager to find ways to capitalize financially on their success and cash in on their popularity. Coupled with an obvious deficiency of corporate integrity, they will continue to seek ways to exploit their users. Which leads to the second reason they are courted by the spammers…..the users. World-wide there are more than 400 million active users. And 50% of them log on at least once a day.
But wait….there’s more! There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices. Another interesting tidbit is that about 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States. Not only that, but Facebookers spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook. That’s a lot of time being exposed to an advertisement and a lot of people being exposed to direct messages from the advertisers. This could turn out to be even more profitable than being a Chicago alderman.
However, I don’t think you need to bail out of Facebook, nor should you hesitate to enroll in it just because of these nefarious practices. Just use the same caution and common sense that you would with any other online community. Don’t enter any information that you don’t want the whole world to see. All in all, I like the way Facebook is structured and I can appreciate the value it has in providing a means for people to easily keep in touch with each other. It’s like a means of sending a flash-email to all of your friends and relatives in one move.
Here’s a flash for you….we need to get this equipment checked out now. I told you it was a late start, and I need to get some more coffee going. Catch you back in the day room in a little while.
If you follow the words, it is, in my opinion very creative as we follow a VSA protocol through the EMCA-P/ABC (in proper order mind you).
The best way to stay out of that food fight is to just not post your personal stats in the first place. This is true for every similar network, not just Facebook. Don’t put down the name of the place where you work, just list the general category such as, “emergency ambulance medic” and maybe the state or province you’re in. But nothing specific. This type of intrusion has been going on since the advent of the world wide web. Facebook is currently the biggest target for the spammers for two primary reasons. First, Facebook is too eager to find ways to capitalize financially on their success and cash in on their popularity. Coupled with an obvious deficiency of corporate integrity, they will continue to seek ways to exploit their users. Which leads to the second reason they are courted by the spammers…..the users. World-wide there are more than 400 million active users. And 50% of them log on at least once a day.
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