Columbus Weekend High School Fundraiser
According to the mom supervising the car wash, the bike owner made a GENEROUS donation.
So did I after (a) getting his permission to take the photograph and (b) her permission to take a picture of the wash crew.
Supporting your community
We had a high school band crew wash the pumper one weekend day. They just had to wash the lower part of the white over red paint scheme.
Have you supported the local community fundraising efforts?
Mike "FossilMedic" Ward
Motor officer critically injured, returns home after five months of recovery and rehabilitation: February 25, 2011
NBC News 11 Atlanta
From the Montgomery Advertiser:
“We are just excited and elated that he is coming back," Tommy Brown, police Cpl. David Brown's father, told the Advertiser. "By the grace of God, he's here with us."
Brown lost an arm, a leg, and suffered traumatic brain injury Sept. 11 when escorting a funeral procession on his police motorcycle.
He collided with a car that pulled into his pathway and the motorcycle caught fire. On the way to the hospital, his ambulance overturned on an interstate ramp.
Montgomery mayor says twice-injured Cpl. David Brown can't get worker's comp
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (October 28, 2010) — Mayor Todd Strange said the city can't grant workers' compensation benefits to the family of police officer who was critically injured while escorting a funeral procession last month because he was off-duty.
Strange said Cpl. David Brown was not working for the Montgomery Police Department that day and had a private contract with the funeral home.
The city received no compensation. Strange said he would like to provide Brown and his family with workers' compensation, but the city must follow the law.
The family sues the city for worker compensation, pointing out that he was using Montgomery Police equipment and was in uniform.
Michael A. DeMayo, in his Workers' Compensation Lawyer Blog, provided a slightly different picture of the mayor after a March 22, 2011 ruling in favor of the family.
The mayor is appealing that ruling. Click below for the details:
The detailed description of his situation includes this: (Brown) now owes $3,000 in co-payments and $1.5 million in medical/surgical bills.
Why talk about this on Firegeezer?
1) The video shows the outpouring of assistance by Montgomery Police Department, Montgomery Fire Department, Prattville Fire Department and others to modify David Brown's home and maintain the yard while he was in rehabilitation.
2) Career firefighters and paramedics could be placed in the same situation when donating time to their community emergency services.
What happens if you get critically hurt or killed as a responder or instructor while donating you time?
Your employer will seek ways to deny coverage. A large Texas city did it when two off-duty firefighters perished at a building collapse.
The city initially denied city-funded LODD benefits and the rural hometown VFD could not afford the half-a-million annuity needed to provide the same benefit payout.
As the two young mothers started their appeal to the state supreme court, the third effort in an on-going legal fight. The Texas city mayor agreed to provide the LODD benefit.
Mike "FossilMedic" Ward
Earlier:
October 21, 2010: Injured Motor Officer off ventilator
September 13, 2010: We only hurt the ones we love
Journey without a finish line
Ara Gureghian is a 66 year old Armenian who has been a personal chef, writer and photographer with a severe case of wanderlust.
In the eighth year of a journey without a finish line.
Our destination is unknown, it is the Journey that matters, it is our own growth that sits above it all and guide us through the many moments acquired these days.
We pretty much try to follow the weather, North in the Summer and South in the Winter. We have been fortunate to aquire some Land in Texas, near Big Bend, I call it “The Oasis” and it’s giant Fire Ring is the Center of my own Universe where Serenity, Peace and Love reigns within the Spiritual Space we spend some time of the year, sheltered from the harsher elements North of us.
Cooking, riding the motorcycle and sidecar rig, my dog Spirit, my Dear Friends, photography, writing, reading, roasting and drinking coffee, camping, sailing, movies… no television and Life itself… all of the above fills up our moments, one at the time.
Gold Point Ghost Town
Ara has been hanging out at Gold Point, a Nevada ghost town with vacation spot aspirations.
Also an electic collection of fire apparatus.
Go HERE to see the rest of the pictures.
Ara reminds me of the cult TV series protagonist on "Then Came Bronson."
Ran on NBC from 1969-1970. 25 episodes.
Fan site with information on Bud Elkins, the inspiration for Bronson character.
Ara is having much more interesting adventures than "Jim Bronson" ever did.
Mike "FossilMedic" Ward
Follow-up to our Sept 13th article We only hurt the ones we love (HERE)
Injured officer breathing on own
October 20, 2010 Montgomeryadvertiser.com
Montgomery Police Cpl. David Brown started breathing on his own Tuesday, after more than a month in the hospital.
“This is some of the best news that we’ve had so far,” his brother, Todd Brown, said. “We’re not out of the woods yet, but we’re moving in the right direction.”
David Brown had been on a combination of a ventilator and an oxygen tube at Baptist Medical Center South since Sept. 11, when a car turned out of a funeral procession and struck his motorcycle and the ambulance carrying him to the hospital wrecked.
Rest of article HERE
You may recall that Corporal Brown suffered life-threatening injuries after an on-duty motorcycle-automobile collision on September 11th in Montgomery (AL).
Enroute to the hospital the ambulance lost control and flipped to the side.
Unusual early morning accident on I-75 in Florida last Thursday.
Star-Banner Photo/NYTRMG, Bruce ACKERMAN
From Austin Miller’s Ocala.com article:
A Suzuki motorcyclist was riding so fast that he rammed into the back of a moving minivan.
He hit the van with such force that his body propelled into the vehicle like a missile.
And his body positioning was so fortunately precise that he shot straight between a husband and wife seated in the back in bucket seats.
Entire article HERE.
A brief image is troubling
Looking at the video related to the Thursday crash.
Noticed something 0:47 seconds into the Ocala.com video that made me uncomfortable.
Is the 22 year old operator of the motorcycle that struck this van one of us?
Mike “FossilMedic” Ward
A 42-YR.-OLD WOMAN AND HER BOYFRIEND were riding their motorcycles together in Sarasota County, Florida, last Saturday May 8 when a turkey tried to share the road with them. They were traveling along a straight stretch of a 2-lane road when the turkey suddenly flew up into their path and struck Lori Hansen directly in the face. The collision-at-speed knocked her unconscious and her bike left the road sliding off the right shoulder and into a barbed wire fence.
WFLA-TV produced this video report on the horrifying accident:
Her friend saw what happened and was able to immediately come to her rescue and call for help. It’s being called the proverbial miracle because Hansen survived both the bird collision and the motorcycle crashing with her unconscious on it. She spent five days in the hospital, but has fully recovered. Troopers found the bird DOA at the crash scene.
Showing her injuries on her neck, face, and
arm, Hansen talks to WTSP -TV reporter.
WTSP-TV has this enlightening interview with Hansen where she tells of her accident and shows her injuries illustrating just how lucky she was:
She still has the 20-lb. bird and is having it stuffed and mounted. She plans on displaying it on the wall as a reminder of the event. You can read the transcript of her interview HERE.
A MOTORCYCLIST WHO HAD JUST PURCHASED his machine a few days previously, was critically injured Friday morning when he drove into the path of an ambulance in Arkansas.
Log Cabin Democrat
The sequence of events began on I-40 when an Arkansas State Trooper observed Gregory Wallace, 22, driving his motorcycle at a very high rate of speed and he attempted to pull him over. Instead of pulling over, however, Wallace decided to try and outrun the trooper and took off at speeds estimated to be as high as 90 mph. When he entered the city of Conway, the Conway PD picked up the pursuit as Wallace entered a high-traffic area.
As he attempted to elude the police, he drifted over the yellow center line and struck an ambulance in its front left corner, demolishing his motorcycle and pitching him into a nearby parking lot. The ambulance crew, who were not on a call, were able to immediately begin life-saving procedures on Wallace. He was then transferred by air ambulance to a trauma center in Little Rock.
The police have no idea why he was fleeing as he didn’t have any outstanding warrants and the bike was properly registered.
The Log Cabin Democrat has the full STORY and a VIDEO HERE.
A ROBBERY SUSPECT IN SANTEE, CALIFORNIA (San Diego area), met his maker in a fiery crash after he piled his motorcycle into the side of a truck and then into a Highway Patrol car.
KSWB-TV
The 39-yr.-old man had just held up a convenience store for some cigarettes when a patrol car spotted him and gave chase. After trying to elude the police cars that had converged to capture him, he made an unwise choice and sped his motorcycle onto a road that was closed ahead for construction. At the same moment, a CHP officer was talking to the construction crew to warn them of the high-speed chase in the area. The Union-Tribune continues:
That officer was facing south in his patrol car talking to a Caltrans employee who was sitting in his truck facing north on the highway between concrete barriers when they heard the motorcycle approaching at high speed. Both men jumped out of their vehicles and took refuge behind the barriers.
The rider had nowhere to go and crashed head-on into the truck. The bike became wedged underneath it and pushed the truck into the patrol car, before bursting into flames, [a CHP spokesman] said.
The motorcyclist was thrown about 200 feet. Emergency personnel tried to resuscitate him, but he died at the scene about 2:30 a.m. Neither the CHP officer nor the Caltrans worker was injured. A revolver was found in the debris.
KFMB-TV Ch. 8 filed this video report from the crash scene:
All three vehicles were destroyed by the crash and fire. Read the full STORY HERE.
Union-Tribune
IN SOMERSET, ENGLAND, A MOTORCYCLIST WAS FATALLY INJURED in a head-on wreck with an EMS Rapid Response car. The accident took place around 5:30 pm on Thursday near Taunton, Somerset. The 30-yr.-old biker died a few hours later in the hospital.
Police say that the RR car with a sole paramedic driver on board was responding to a cardiac arrest call with its lights and siren activated when the two vehicles, which were traveling in opposite directions, met. The violence of the accident left the motorcyle in pieces all over the roadway. A regular ambulance that was responding on the same call, came across the wreck scene moments later and was able to immediately provide care and transporation for the biker.
The rapid-response car (background) and
the motorcycle were traveling in opposite
directions. (BBC News photo)
The “very experienced” paramedic from the South Western Ambulance Trust was uninjured, but suffered a severe shock from the accident and is on leave for the time being.
The London Telegraph has the STORY.
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