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Likely Tornado Hits Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Severe weather, including a probable tornado, struck South Dakota's largest city, leaving a trail of damaged buildings, downed power lines, fallen trees and some reports of injuries, officials said Wednesday. Fire Chief Brad Goodroad said at an early morning news conference that at least 37 structures collapsed in Sioux Falls or have structural issues after the storm rolled through the city in the eastern part of the state just before midnight Tuesday. There were no reports of deaths. Sioux Falls, with an estimated population of 187,200, is about 240 miles (386.kilometers) southwest of Minneapoli...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - September 11, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News AP News Tag Source Type: news

‘Rescue of a Lifetime’ in Georgia
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Four crew members trapped in the bowels of an overturned cargo ship waited for nearly 36 hours in pitch darkness and oven-like heat, perched on pipes and railings above deep water before they were pulled to safety, rescue coordinators said Tuesday. The South Korean sailors emerged Monday from a hole drilled through the steel-plated hull of the Golden Ray, which flipped onto its side along the Georgia coast. Three of them were found in the engine room after making tapping sounds all night to show they were alive, and to help rescuers pinpoint their location inside the massive vessel. The fourth had to...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - September 11, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: International Major Incidents News AP News Tag Source Type: news

2019 Commemoration Ceremony for 18th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks
Photo by Jin S. Lee, 9/11 Memorial The world will pause on reflect Wednesday, the 18th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001.   On Wed., Sept. 11, 2019, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum will lead the world in commemorating the 18th anniversary of the horrific attacks of 9/11. Marking this important anniversary, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum will host the annual commemoration ceremony to honor the 2,983 men, women and children killed in the attacks at the World Trade Center site, the Pentagon, aboard Flight 93 and in the 1993 WTC bombing. The ceremony will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, beginning at 8:40 a.m. EST, at ...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - September 10, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Source Type: news

For 9/11 Families, Mixed Views on Trump-Taliban Talks
Norma Molina, of San Antonio, Texas, leaves flowers by the names of firefighters from Engine 33 at the September 11 Memorial, Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, in New York. Her boyfriend Robert Edward Evans, a member of Engine 33, was killed in the north tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) NEW YORK (AP) — If President Donald Trump's now-canceled plan for secret talks with Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents on U.S. soil was stunning, the date chosen was perhaps even more so: days before the anniversary of 9/11, the reason for the war they were going to talk about ending. Sept. 11 victims' relati...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - September 10, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Administration and Leadership Source Type: news

Fuel Mix-Up at Virginia Fire, EMS Leaves Service Scrambling
Facebook/Prince George County Fire and EMS Fire trucks and ambulances at Prince George Fire and EMS in Virginia needed to be drained after the wrong type of fuel was put in their tanks. PRINCE GEORGE, Va. – A fuel mix-up at Prince George Fire and EMS made fire and EMS vehicles not drivable for the day, according to reports. The Progress-Index reports it happened Monday when the company contracted to fuel up the vehicles inadvertently put diesel fuel into gasoline tanks and gasoline into diesel tanks. The county was left scrambling to get units back into service, according to the report. By the end of the day Mo...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - September 10, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: News Ambulances & Vehicle Ops Operations Source Type: news

Reports: Two FDNY EMTs Beaten, Pepper Sprayed
  Watch the report from WABC-TV. NEW YORK – Two FDNY EMTs were beaten and pepper sprayed after refusing to drive two patients to another hospital, according to reports. The beating happened outside of Mount Sinai West Hospital on Tenth Ave. and W. 59th St. around 1 a.m. Wednesday, the New York Daily News reported. The suspects, 27-year-old Andre Langston and 24-year-old Avanti Rhodes, both of the Bronx, were first taken to the hospital but got into a fight with the head nurse, the newspaper reported. The two ran back to the ambulance and demanded the crew taken them to another hospital. The EMTs refused, and...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - September 9, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: News Source Type: news

1 Dead, 14 Hurt by Frying Pan Blast at German Village Fest
In this Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019 photo police officers investigate a booth after an explosion at a village festival in Freudenberg, Germany. Authorities say 14 people have been injured, five of them with life-threatening burns, during an explosion at a village festival in western Germany. Police told German news agency dpa that it appears likely that oil inside a big frying pan caused the explosion at the local 'Backesfest' (bakery festival) that was attended by about 100 people. (Berthold Stamm/dpa via AP)   BERLIN (AP) — Police say one woman has died from severe burns sustained during a frying pan explosion that also...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - September 9, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: International Trauma News AP News Tag Source Type: news

Purdue Pharma Says Settlement Talks in Opioid Cases Not Over
In this Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, file photo, Christine Gagnon of Southington, Conn., protests with other family and friends who have lost loved ones to OxyContin and opioid overdoses at Purdue Pharma LLP headquarters in Stamford, Conn. Gagnon lost her son Michael 13 months earlier. OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is expected to file for bankruptcy after settlement talks over the nation’s deadly overdose crisis hit an impasse, attorneys general involved in the talks said Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, in a message to their counterparts across the country. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)   OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and lawyer...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - September 9, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care AP News Tag Source Type: news

UN, U.S. Coast Guard and Others Aid Stricken Bahamas
A Bahama's Army officer delivers water to the people evacuated prior boarding a ferry to Nassau at the Port in Marsh Harbor, Abaco Island, Bahamas, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019. The Bahamian health ministry said helicopters and boats are on the way to help people in affected areas, though officials warned of delays because of severe flooding and limited access. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)   ABACO, Bahamas (AP) — The hurricane death toll is rising in the Bahamas, in what its leader calls "this hour of darkness." Search and rescue teams were still trying to reach some Bahamian communities isolated by floodwaters an...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - September 7, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Major Incidents News AP News Tag Source Type: news

North Carolina Paramedic Loses Leg After Crash
  Paramedic Heather Haynes speaks to WGHP-TV from her hospital bed after losing part of her leg after being hit. LEXINGTON, N.C – A paramedic pinned between an ambulance and car last month lost part of her leg in the crash but is not giving up hope. "I want to keep going, because, first of all, I didn't go through paramedic school for two years for nothing, and because I have four kids looking at me," Heather Haynes said in a video message to WGHP-TV from her hospital bed. "If I give up, then it's going to teach them that you just give up no matter what. So, I'm just going to keep going, and,...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - September 6, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Trauma News News Videos Source Type: news

Hurricane Dorian Howling Over North Carolina's Outer Banks
A tornado touched down in the The Farm at Brunswick County in Carolina Shores, N.C. on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, damaging homes ahead of Hurricane Dorian's arrival. (Jason Lee/The Sun News via AP) WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Dorian howled over North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday, lashing the low-lying barrier islands as a weakened Category 1 hurricane. Dorian's eye was 10 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, as the storm moved northeast at 14 mph (22 kph). It's expected to remain a hurricane as it sweeps up the Eastern Seaboard Friday and Saturday, lashing the New England shore with heavy surf. Forecasters said large a...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - September 6, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News AP News Tag Source Type: news

Tennessee Sending Nurses, Emergency Staff to Help Carolinas
Tennessee Department of Health photo Tennessee sent a team of 30 people to Columbia, South Carolina in response to Hurricane Dorian. There are already 129 ambulances there from the Volunteer State.   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The State of Tennessee is sending emergency management and medical assistance to the Carolinas to support the response to Hurricane Dorian. According to a new release, a five-person incident management team was scheduled to travel to Columbia, South Carolina, on Friday. That team will assist local and state logistics and response efforts. It includes four staff members from the Tennessee Eme...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - September 6, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Operations Source Type: news

California Warehouse Fire Trial Limps on After Hung Jury
Makeshift memorials erected to the victims of the Ghost Ship warehouse fire, photographed Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019 in Oakland, Calif. Jurors found defendant Max Harris not guilty of involuntary manslaughter and were unable to reach a verdict in the case against co-defendant Derick Almena. (AP Photo/D. Ross Cameron) OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — An emotionally taxing criminal case over the deaths of 36 people trapped inside a San Francisco Bay Area warehouse nearly three years ago will continue after a jury acquitted one defendant and deadlocked on the other. Jurors deliberated over a two-week period before they acquitted Max Har...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - September 6, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News AP News Tag Source Type: news

Rush, N.Y. Firefighter/EMT Hurt by Combative Victims
Watch the report on WHEC-TV   RUSH, N.Y. – A firefighter/EMT suffered minor injuries Wednesday morning when treating two people possibly on drugs after they became combative after a crash, authorities said. New York State Troopers and EMS arrived on Route 390 Northbound around 7:30 a.m. in Rush, a suburb of Rochester, on a report of a disabled car against the guardrail. Officials found a male and a female passed out in the car, according to a Facebook post from the Rush Volunteer Fire Department. Advanced Life Support was requested to wake up the two. The fire department said the two people, who were not identified,...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - September 5, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: News Patient Care Source Type: news

Dorian, Back to a Category 3 Hurricane, Creeps Up U.S. Coast
US Army National Guard Pvt. Christopher Zambuto, left, and Specialist Jermaris Hamilton assemble cots in a shelter for Hurricane Dorian evacuees inside the old Sears location at Northgate Mall, on Wednesday, Sep. 4, 2019, in Durham, NC. (Casey Toth/The News & Observer via AP)   CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Hurricane Dorian , back to a Category 3 storm, began raking the Southeast U.S. seaboard early Thursday and left tens of thousands without power as it threatened to inundate low-lying coasts from Georgia to Virginia with a life-threatening storm surge after its deadly mauling of the Bahamas. Dorian squatte...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - September 5, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News AP News Tag Source Type: news