The viral “augmented reality” app layers gameplay onto the physical world and players — eyes glued to their smartphone screens — in search of digital monsters are wiping out in a variety of ways
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Monthly Archives: July 2016
Reality Training: Severe head wound behind home plate
How would you treat a baseball umpire’s significant head laceration as players, fans and television viewers watch your every move?
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Train slams into car in Indianapolis, woman and child hurt
Officials said it took firefighters 15 minutes to free the woman from the wreckage
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Video: Intersection collision destroys ambulance
Twin Township EMS releases video of car crashing into an ambulance and the patient care compartment disintegrating
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Man's pants catch fire after iPhone explodes in pocket
The man felt a sharp pain in his thigh when he realized he was on fire and tossed off his pants
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Ambulance insurance raises liability questions
A Virgin Islands EMT union said ambulances have been uninsured and unregistered for at least seven months
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Frequent Flyers: Sir, please put down your phone
A comic for EMS drawing off the real experiences of EMS
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EMS needs to serve our communities with integrity and respect
Mourn the deaths of five Dallas police officers, but don’t lower your standards by responding emotionally to provocation
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New Kan. law allows first responders to carry concealed weapons on duty
Effective July 1, EMTs and firefighters can now carry firearms on the job.
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DC firefighter on leave after Facebook rant
Norman Brooks was placed on leave Wednesday following a slew of inflammatory Facebook posts about police shootings
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