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Co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson also discuss the week’s news, form the Oregon mass shooting to CVS selling Narcan
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Monthly Archives: October 2015
Reality Training: Responders watch as bystander makes water rescue
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A smartphone video captures a 71-year-old man enter a river to assist a man collapsed on a rock and partially submerged
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Pilot dies during flight; plane diverted
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The American Airlines flight from Phoenix to Boston was diverted to Syracuse, N.Y., after the captain became ill
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SC flood: Rescuers search door-to-door, at least 7 fatalities
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Officials report hundreds of swift-water rescues, bridge washouts and small dam failures during historic rain storm (Janet Blackmon Morgan/The Sun News via AP)
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Oregon shooting: Fire chief describes response and patient triage
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Chief Marlar confirms 2 of the victims related to fire department personnel; Treven Anspach, 20, son of firefighter Justin Anspachm, and Rebeka Ann Carnes, 18, niece of paramedic Brian McFaddin, were killed
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25 hurt in concrete awning collapse at NC school
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1 person may have been critically injured by the collapse caused by a box truck that hit a canopy support (WSOC via AP)
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EMS volunteer shortage explored by Neb. lawmakers
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Increasing training requirements and shrinking pool of volunteers are impacting recruitment and retention of rural EMS personnel
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Chicago medics treat 74 narcotics overdoses in 72 hours
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Officials think that heroin laced with fentanyl may be to blame for surge in overdoses; some victims have required multiple doses of naloxone
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Severe weather postpones NJ EMS Task Force Expo to 2016
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Some areas of NJ are already experiencing street flooding and challenging travel from heavy rainfall (Photo courtesy of NJEMSTF)
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Why EMS personnel need an off-duty bailout bag
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On- or off-duty EMS personnel need to be on the lookout for hazards and ready to operate in the warm zone
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