RescueKujo

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  3. Posted

    how about when IAs get deleted?

    Incident Alerts are for significant incidents only (MCI, 2nd Alarm or greater fire, Fire with Fatality, TC with extrication, etc). There have been IAs posted before anyone got onscene where it turned out to be nothing or a small fire. The IA board was not created for every incident in the world....

  4. Posted

    Im all for helping people out. But this is the responsibility of their employer not me or you. I could see if they were doing this for free, but they are getting paid, and if its a work issue they should be taking care of them.

    That's a nice, positive attitude. While I have not lost anything in our wildfires out here, in 2003 while I was at work my wife and stepdaughter evacuated, as did my parents. If I had lost anything, was it my employers responsibility? I did have coworkers lose everything, and nationwide my company banded together to help their coworkers, as we did for Katrina and other National Disasters.

    This is a request to help your fellow humans, who not by their own actions but by a force of God have lost everything. I pray if this ever happens to you no one looks the other way.

    If they have no access how will the supplies get to them?

    I believe there are relief agencies that are able to deliver to the affected areas. If these people have lost everything, maybe the stores in the area were destroyed also?

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    FIRE

    21631 W. Heather Lee Ln.

    Chatsworth

    Friday, September 12, 2008

    TIME: 4:23 PM

    INCIDENT #: 0834

    On Friday, September 12, 2008 at 4:23 PM, 38 Companies of Los Angeles Firefighters, 28 LAFD Rescue Ambulances, 1 Heavy Rescue, 1 Urban Search and Rescue Unit, 2 Rehab Units, 1 Hazardous Materials Team, 4 Helicopters, 7 EMS Battalion Captains, 8 Battalion Chief Officer Command Teams, 1 Division Chief Officer Command Team, Foam Tenders 100 & 60, Emergency Air 1, the Heavy Equipment Company, Emergency Lighting 72, 83 and 112, responded to reports of a train derailment at 21631 W. Heather Lee Ln. in the Chatsworth area.

    Agencies representing Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Beverly Hills and Ventura County Fire Departments, the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles County Sheriffs, CHP, Metrolink and Union Pacific Railroad, working under a Unified Command, responded to reports of a train derailment in Chatsworth.

    Link: LAFD Blog Site

  7. Posted

    On September 12, 2008, at approximately 4:30 p.m., Police Officer III Spree Desha, was aboard the Metrolink train that crashed head on into a freight train in Chatsworth. Officer Desha was killed on impact, leaving her family, friends and fellow Officers grieving her loss.

    May God watch over her family, friends and fellow LAPD Officers.

  8. Posted

    Last update for the night...

    Still stating 15 fatalities and 135 injured. Some passengers still in passenger car hit by the freight train engine. Per LAFD Chief Berry, the locomotive is embedded into the passenger car.

    LAPD Officer is a 7 year veteran of the department. She was off duty and riding the train. Sorry, I did not catch her name. Will post a LODD when I have it.

    Also injured and in critical condition is a LA County Sheriff's Deputy, who was on the train as part of their security. Clavicle fracture, multiple rib fractures, a punctured lung and punctured leg. Deputy John Ebert assisted with rescues out of the passenger car until he collapsed. He is in the ICU in a Ventura County Hospital.

    May God watch over the rescuers as they attempt to free those still in the car.

    Duane

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    I was out of town for an Emergency Medical Dispatch class, and asleep in my hotel room (Pacific Daylight Time). My pager went off with an IPN alert. I thought "how bad is traffic screwed up in San Diego this morning?" and looked at the pager. I was instantly awake, thinking of the B-25 into the Empire State Building (I am not that old, but being former USAF and a history buff I know the story), but when I turned on the TV and saw the weather, all I could think was "WTF"?? As I got up and was getting ready to go to class, I saw the 2nd plane. I got an empty sick feeling in the pit of my stomach and knew the terrorists were at it again.

    The day sucked in class, as no one could concentrate. 1 woman had family in both FDNY and LAFD and was losng it. It went from bad to worse when she found out her brothers who were assigned to the LAFD USAR Task Force was heading to the site. Another classmate had a sister who was a flight attendant, and the family hadn't heard from her all day.

  14. Posted

    ***UPDATE***

    Rescue Ops now starting a recovery operation, LA County Coroner's Units now onscene. Cadaver dogs being flown in from counties outside LA to assist.

    Per press conference, 10 confirmed DOS over 100 injured with no confirmed count. Extrication still in progress on Metrolink car. This crash was headon, a Union Pacific Freight train into the MetroLink, with the locomotive tearing apart a passenger car. There was a fire at the time of the crash, which was extingushed by first arriving units.

  16. Posted

    Now 3 and a half hours into incident, LAFD/LACoFD USAR Teams still working on passenger car. Reports of now possibly 20 people DOA, over 100 injured. Departments involved as of right now are as follows: LAFD, LACoFD, Ventura County FD, LAPD, LA County Sheriff, Multiple Privte Ambulance Agencies. Patients being flown to trauma centers in the central LA area so not to overtax the system in the northern San Fernando Valley by LAFD, LACoFD and LA Sheriff helos.

    More information still pouring in, press conference soon. Update as soon as more concrete information is known.

    Duane

    West Coast Correspondent-EMT Bravo Networks

  22. Posted

    I know here in San Diego County there's a problem with people in the suburbs wanting to use the helos way too much. All the trauma centers are within 20 minutes drive within the metro area (5 throughout the county with Children's SD the exception). In our contract cities, I hear fire captains putting the helos on standby before they're even onscene. 9 times out of 10 the helos is taken off standby, not even used. I agree there's areas of the county where the helos need to be used.

    As for the stat of almost 50% being released within 24 hours, I haven't seen a MRI or CT Scanner small enough to fit into either an ambulance or helo. Until the day EMS gets those bitchin Star Trek hand held scanners that Dr McCoy and others used, it is mechanism+signs and symptoms= mode of transportation in my book.

    As a news anchor used to say in San Diego, "That's my opinion, what's yours?"

  23. Posted

    Victims of Nevada Air Tanker Crash Identified

    Calvin Gene Wahlstrom, 61, of Huntsville, was piloting a fire-fighting air tanker that crashed shortly after taking off Tuesday near Reno, Nev., according to the Washoe County Coroner's Office.

    He and his two passengers died. Wahlstrom was flying the twin-engine P-2V air tanker when a turbine apparently exploded moments after the plane left the Reno-Stead Airport.

    The other two crewmen on board were also killed. They were identified as 25-year-old Zachary Jake Vander Griend and Gregory Gonsioroski, 41, both of Montana, supervising deputy coroner Sara Mildebrandt said Wednesday.

    Link:

    Firehouse.Com Article

  24. Posted

    GREENSBURG, Ind. --

    Three people were killed Sunday afternoon when a medical helicopter went down near Greensburg, police said.

    The crash happened just after 1 p.m. near County Road 700 West and Base Line Road, just outside of Greensburg, officials with the Decatur County Sheriff’s Department said.

    The pilot -- Roger Warren -- a flight nurse -- Sandra Pearson -- and a flight paramedic -- Wade Weston -- on the Air Evac Lifeteam helicopter based in Rushville were killed when the helicopter crashed, officials said.

    Link:

    3 Killed in Medevac Helicopter Crash

  25. Posted

    RENO, Nev. --

    An air tanker hoping to drop retardant on a wildfire in the Sierra Nevada crashed on takeoff near Reno on Monday, killing all three crew members on board.

    The twin-engine P2V air tanker owned by Neptune Aviation of Missoula, Mont., had been fighting a wildfire earlier in the day that had forced evacuations over the weekend in California's Alpine County near Hope Valley south of Lake Tahoe, Reno fire spokesman Steve Frady said Monday night.

    Link:

    Three Firefighters Killed in Nevada Air Tanker Crash