RescueKujo

Congrats, Tim. thanks for reviving all those oldies but goodies.

13 is the ARFF station.

Dohh!!!! Thanks Jimmy, I totally spaced on it.

Date: 01/25/2008

Time: First Avalanche approximately 1200 PST, 2nd shortly after that

Location: Wrightwood California Mountain high Ski Resort

Departments:San Bernardino Co FD, LA County FD, LA County Sheriff

Description: Multiple avalanches in the area of Mountain High Ski Resort near Wrightwood on the San Bernardino/Los Angeles County line. Reports of at least 2 people found, 1 DOA and 1 in CPR status being taken via LACoFD AirSquad to a hospital. Both victims found in an area out of bounds near the ski resort. Reports of more possible victims as victim #2 was found.

Links: KNBC Channel 4 News-Skier Killed in Avalanche

Writer: RescueKujo

Here's a map of stations from the Clark County FD website:

Clark County Fire Station Map

Here's the legend:

Las Vegas FD: Station Numbers 1-10, 41-50

Clark County FD: Station Numbers 11-40, 60-89

North Las Vegas FD: 51-59

Henderson FD: 91-99

Looking at the map, it appears Clark County FD stations 11, 13, 18, 12, 21 and 19 would be first in if available (Casino at Tropicana/Las Vegas Bl.)

The LVFD made a good stop of the fire. when i saw it at around 5 it was roaring up the sides. Anyone hear how it started? They said welders were on the roof but in the video from earlier, the fire was in two diffrrent wings of the casino plus the roof.

The Casino is in Clark County FD FS 11's first in district. While I did see Las Vegas FD units in the video, I'm pretty sure the 1st alarm would have been Clark County units. Based on where the fire was on the hotel, I'm sure station 11 units could see it when pulling out of the station. I'd love to hear those transmissions.

Most dead people are in cardiac arrest.

Cause of Death: Cardiac Arrest = We don't have a clue what killed him

Air goes in and out, blood goes round and round. When either of those stops, it's a bad thing....

I agree. We'll just have to wait and see.

All of you are just mad because your OLD!!

you young whippersnapper, I'd beat you with my cane if I could get up out of my wheelchair

you guys are hitting it right on the head, does anyone even want to start in on the music?

Oh yeah...

Innagaddadavida by Iron Butterfly-no way you'd hear a 9 minute guitar solo today on commercial radio...

Led Zepplin, AC/DC, Styx and too many others to mention...

Stadium shows were the norm, not a once in a lifetime thing.

Now, let's discuss apparatus....

Crowns, Pirsch, Maxims were all sitting on the apparatus floors

Ward LaFrances and American LaFrances also. 700s, 900s and Centurys galore...

Leather helmets, pullup boots and knee length coats...

As Elvis sang...."Memories, turning like the pages in my mind"....

Gotta say the Giants have turned it up a few. The Pat's have been just getting by the last few games. If Eli can continue to have no interceptions, they keep switching Jacobs and Bradshaw in the backfield, I think it'll be close, 21 17 Giants

And now with the report (though by the papparazzi) of Brady in a walking boot, it will be interesting to see how things turn out. He does have 10 more days. And with it coming out Rivers had arthroscopic surgery last Monday and now needs even more surgery on his ACL, makes you wonder what the outcome would have been if he and others would have been healthy.

A lot of good discussion here. I think that there are valid parts to all sides of this argument, but I just don't see an across the board merger in Westchester happening any time soon. Each department is going to have to figure out what works best for them to get Fire and EMS crews out in a timely manner. If it means supplementing your volunteers with some paid personnel, then maybe that's what has to be done.

Rush,

Our County Board of Supervisors is attempting to combine some of the smaller career and volunteer departments here in San Diego County, but are running into headstrong Chiefs and Boards that don't want to give up their little kingdom. What ever happened to greater needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or one??

K-Rock morning team Opie and Anthony caused a brief stir yesterday when they said Chiusano's departure meant the station would be flipping to a country format, which Chiusano said was not true. It recently hired two daytime rock deejays.

I guess they pulled your chains pretty hard, huh??

You had the Atari 2600?? All I had was Pong, and that was the 1 time every 2 weeks we went to Pizza Hut and sat down to eat our pizza!

But then again, I got my driver's license in 1978, and spent many days before school sitting in the line at the corner Texaco for the 57 cent/gallon gas.

A vast menu at either the McDonald's or Jack in the Box was hamburger, cheeseburger and a double decker with whatever name the fast food joint gave it. And don't forget the Filet-O-Fish or Moby Jack.

There was actually a NBA team in San Diego. and we were on the verge of getting a NHL team. The Padres had just become a Major League team, the Chargers were still in the American Football League with the Jets and Patriots.

My dad had a Corvair, and my mom drove a Chevy II station wagon.

Date: 01/20/2008

Time: 1705

Location: In the area of State Hwy 91/Serfas Club

Departments: Corona FD?Corona PD/Riverside County FD

Description: Mid Air Collision approximately 1 mile from Corona Airport involving 2 Cessna aircraft. 5 DOA, 2 in each plane and 1 person on the ground. Planes and passengers fell from the collision into multiple car dealerships. Units still onscene with the NTSB as of this posting.

Links: Planes Collide

Writer: RescueKujo

Unfortunately, it is my understanding that because he has not gone through the trial process or copped a plea if guilty, he can only be suspended. But if I were the Chief or whomever is in charge of personnel matters, the paperwork would already be drawn up so the minute a guilty plea is brought down he is no longer a member of the department.

As proven today, the Patriots just have too many weapons. Patriots by 4.

Border agent killed by drug smuggling driver, officials say

(CNN) -- A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent was killed Saturday when he was struck by a car driven by a suspected narcotics smuggler, officials said.

Luis Aguilar, 32, who was assigned to the Yuma, Arizona, border patrol station, died Saturday, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner W. Ralph Basham said in a statement.

"Agent Aguilar's death serves as another stark reminder of the risks our front-line agents and officers face each day," Basham said.

Aguilar was trying to place spike strips in the path of two vehicles believed to have illegally entered the country from Mexico when one of the vehicles hit him, agent Michael Bernacke, a spokesman for the agency's Yuma sector, told The Associated Press.

Both vehicles drove back across the border into Mexico, the AP said.

The fatal incident occurred in the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area near Andrade, California, Basham said. Andrade is just over the California state line from Arizona.

The area is popular with off-road vehicle enthusiasts but also is frequently used by smugglers carrying people or drugs, the AP said.

Aguilar is survived by his wife and two children, along with his brother, who is also a border patrol agent, a Homeland Security Department statement said.

"I am outraged by this tragic loss," said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Saturday. "I have spoken to the Mexican ambassador, who gives me both his condolences and deep assurance that their government will be resolute in tracking down the perpetrators and bringing them to swift justice."

Federal, state and local authorities are working with Mexican police and military authorities to apprehend the suspected killers, he said.

CNN.com-Border Patrol Agent Killed

Date:01/19/2008

Time: Posted 1840 PST Occured 0930 PST

Location: Gray Wells Rd South of Interstate 8-Imperial County

Departments: USBP/Imperial County FD/CHP/Imperial County Sheriff's Department

Description: USBP Agent was run over and killed by a suspected smuggler while attempting to place a spike strip during a pursuit. The Agent's name has not been released. Mexican Liaison of the Border Patrol has been in touch with Mexican authorities asking for the assistance in apprehending the suspects.

Links: Border Patrol Agent Run Over and Killed

Writer: RescueKujo

I don't know if it made the news back east...

The 911 audio of the phone calls have been released...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_...kttBcMQnEWs0NUE

Tiger caller told 911 help was too slow

SAN FRANCISCO - "It's a matter of life and death!" the caller screamed, but a 911 dispatcher said there was a delay: Paramedics needed to make sure the tiger loose in the San Francisco Zoo wasn't going to attack them.

Either Paul or Kulbir Dhaliwal made the 911 call from outside a zoo cafe on Dec. 25, asking that a helicopter be brought in to rescue his brother, according to a recording of the call released Tuesday.

By the time the call heard on the nearly seven-minute recording ends, the escaped Siberian tiger already had killed the Dhaliwals' friend, 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr., outside the animal's enclosure and was creeping closer to the cafe.

"At the cafe, we have the tiger!" an officer shouts into his radio just after 5:27 p.m., according to a recording of police dispatch traffic, about four minutes after the call between the brother and the 911 dispatcher ends. "We have the tiger attacking the victim!"

Less than a minute later, another call comes over the radio to stop shooting.

"We have the cat. We shot the cat," an officer says. "The victim is being attended to."

A separate 911 call placed by a zoo employee who was talking simultaneously with colleagues on a two-way radio revealed that zoo employees initially expressed disbelief that a big cat could have escaped, according to another recording released Tuesday.

The unidentified male zoo employee called 911 at 5:05 p.m. to relay a report from a female employee who encountered the frantic brothers outside the cafe.

"I don't know if they are on drugs or not," the woman is overheard saying on his radio. "They are screaming about an animal that has attacked them and there isn't an animal out. He is talking about a third person, but I don't see a third person."

The man then tries to relay her remarks, when the female employee interjects: "He is saying he got attacked by a lion."

The man is heard on the 911 call, saying, "That is virtually impossible. ... I can't imagine how he could have possibly gotten attacked by a lion. He would have had to have gotten in. I just can't see it."

"I think this guy is on something. He is really agitated," the woman says.

"They don't know if he got attacked by a lion. They are both very agitated and they might be on drugs," the man tells the dispatcher.

At the same time, one of the victims was on another line with a 911 dispatcher, desperately pleading for help and begging to know why it was taking so long to get it, according to a recording of the call.

"I understand that, but at the same time we have to make sure the paramedics don't get chewed out, because if the paramedics get hurt then nobody's going to help you," the dispatcher says.

Seconds later, the brother shouts, "My brother's about to die out here!"

The 911 dispatcher tells him to calm down before the frustrated caller asks, "Can you fly a helicopter out here? Because I don't see a (expletive) ambulance."

Judging by the synopsis of the attacks given by police, the older brother, Kulbir, who was the last of the three victims, likely made the call. The brothers suffered serious bite and claw wounds.

At 5:10 p.m. — five minutes after the first 911 call was made — word reaches the male zoo employee that an animal indeed was loose. He starts telling other visitors that they must leave the grounds immediately.

"We have a Code One. They say they have a tiger out," he tells the dispatcher.

Zoo officials say the tiger had climbed or jumped over the wall surrounding its pen. They have acknowledged that the wall was 4 feet shorter than the recommended minimum height.

The extent of Sousa's injuries became known at 5:15 p.m., when either a paramedic or another zoo employee is heard over the radio reporting a fatality. "This person needs help now," he says.

Michael Cardoza, a personal injury lawyer hired by Sousa's parents, said Tuesday that his clients had not yet listened to the recordings.

Cardoza said he was struck by how cogent the brother who made the 911 call sounded, despite his obvious terror and the initial incredulity of zoo employees.

"That is tantamount to me going up to a cop saying, 'There is a guy with a gun behind our building and he just shot somebody,' and the cop saying, 'Are you on drugs?'" Cardoza said. "Why don't you go check it out first, and then question the reliability of the people who are reporting it, especially when one of them is standing there bleeding?"

But zoo spokesman Sam Singer said the recordings reinforced the zoo director's position that staff "acted heroically in guiding emergency responders to assist the two brothers, as well as to the body of Carlos Sousa Jr."

Also Tuesday, police obtained a search warrant to examine cell phones and car belonging to the Dhaliwal brothers in their criminal investigation, Sgt. Neville Gittens said. The items have been the focus of both police and city officials, who believe they could contain evidence that the victims provoked the tiger in the moments leading to the attack.

Mark Geragos, an attorney representing the brothers, has insisted they did not taunt the animal. He did not return a call for comment late Tuesday.

A hearing on whether the city attorney's office may examine the items in a separate civil case was scheduled for Wednesday.

Police: Tiger attack victim was drinking, admitted taunting

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- One of the three victims of San Francisco Zoo tiger attack was intoxicated and admitted to yelling and waving at the animal while standing atop the railing of the big cat enclosure, police said in court documents filed Thursday.

Paul Dhaliwal, 19, told the father of Carlos Sousa Jr., 17, who was killed, that the three yelled and waved at the tiger but insisted they never threw anything into its pen to provoke the cat, according to a search warrant affidavit obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.

"As a result of this investigation, (police believe) that the tiger may have been taunted/agitated by its eventual victims," according to Inspector Valerie Matthews, who prepared the affidavit. Police believe that "this factor contributed to the tiger escaping from its enclosure and attacking its victims," she said.

Sousa's father, Carlos Sousa Sr., said Dhaliwal told him the three stood on a 3-foot-tall metal railing a few feet from the edge of the tiger moat. "When they got down they heard a noise in the bushes, and the tiger was jumping out of the bushes on him (Paul Dhaliwal)," the documents said.

Police found a partial shoe print that matched Paul Dhaliwal's on top of the railing, Matthews said in the documents. Watch how a victim's desperate 911 call was handled »

The papers said Paul Dhaliwal told Sousa that no one was dangling his legs over the enclosure. Authorities believe the tiger leaped or climbed out of the enclosure, which had a wall 4 feet shorter than the recommended minimum.

The affidavit also cites multiple reports of a group of young men taunting animals at the zoo, the Chronicle reported.

Mark Geragos, an attorney for the Dhaliwal brothers, did not immediately return a call late Thursday by The Associated Press for comment. He has repeatedly said they did not taunt the tiger.

Calls to Sousa and Michael Cardoza, an attorney for the Sousa family, also weren't returned.

Toxicology results for Dhaliwal showed that his blood alcohol level was 0.16 -- twice the legal limit for driving, according to the affidavit. His 24-year-old brother Kulbir Dhaliwal and Sousa also had alcohol in their blood but within the legal limit, Matthews wrote.

All three also had marijuana in their systems, Matthews said. Kulbir Dhaliwal told police that the three had smoked pot and each had "a couple shots of vodka" before leaving San Jose for the zoo on Christmas Day the affidavit said.

Police found a small amount of marijuana in Kulbir Dhaliwal's 2002 BMW, which the victims rode to the zoo, as well as a partially filled bottle of vodka, according to court documents.

Investigators also recovered messages and images from the cell phones, but apparently nothing incriminating in connection with the tiger attack, the Chronicle reported.

Sam Singer, a spokesman for the zoo, said he had not seen the documents but believed the victims did taunt the animal, even though they claim they hadn't.

"Those brothers painted a completely different picture to the public and the press," Singer said. "Now it's starting to come out that what they said is not true."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/18/tiger.att...f=ib_topstories

Someone's got a lot of explaining to do : :

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/obituar...m17hartson.html

Robert Hartson, 86; founded ambulance company

By Leslie Berestein

UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

January 17, 2008

As the founder and president of his own ambulance company, Robert Louis Hartson wasn't one to delegate from a window office.

His daughter, Carol Jensen, remembers a childhood living in a commercial business zone in Mid-City – the only place they could live, she said, considering that her father kept his fleet of ambulances downstairs.

“We lived upstairs, and all the ambulance drivers lived downstairs, and the ambulances were in front,” Jensen said, recalling the fledgling days of her father's business. “My brother and I used to wash the ambulances, and my mother answered the phones. It was truly a family business.”

Mr. Hartson, a former Army medic, co-founded Air City Ambulance in 1946 with his brother, Paul Hartson. After selling that business in the mid-1960s, Mr. Hartson founded Hartson's Ambulance Service, a private ambulance service that grew to serve the San Diego area from a dozen locations.

Mr. Hartson retired in 1982 after selling the company to two employees, who eventually renamed it Hartson Medical Services. That company won a contract with the city of San Diego in 1983 that lasted several years.

Mr. Hartson died Jan. 7 from complications of pneumonia at San Diego Hospice and Palliative Care in Hillcrest. He was 86.

A resident of Indian Wells for the past 17 years, he called for family members to pick him up and take him to San Diego after feeling ill Christmas Eve. He was later taken to Scripps Mercy Hospital.

Mr. Hartson was born July 5, 1921, in San Diego at his family's home at 41st Street and Orange Avenue, just a short distance from the ambulance company he would eventually found. He was the sixth of seven children. While a student at Hoover High School he met his wife, Juanita, at a dance downtown.

“They were together for almost 70 years,” Jensen said. “He took care of her until Christmas Eve.”

After high school, Mr. Hartson joined the Army and enrolled in flight training school. While in training in the Midwest, he attended teachers college in Wisconsin, his daughter said. He had hoped to become a pilot, but by the time flight training was over, so, almost, was World War II. He became a medic instead and was assigned to duty in Okinawa.

He returned from field hospital duty there in 1946 and started the ambulance company with his brother, who left after two years to become a police officer. In the early days, Mr. Hartson worked out of the top floor of a two-story house off El Cajon Boulevard.

“We always had to live near El Cajon Boulevard, because that is where the ambulances had to be parked,” said Jensen, who by the age of 12 was typing bills for her parents. “You couldn't park ambulances in the middle of a residential neighborhood.”

Even when her parents moved the company to a three-story office building on 47th Street, they lived on the top floor, Jensen recalled.

Those who worked with Mr. Hartson remember his insistence on a comforting personal touch:, offering extra blankets to elderly patients, using pillowcases to shield the eyes of patients emerging from the hospital into bright outdoor light.

“He always asked us to think of the patients as though they were our mother or father, and to treat the patients that way,” said former employee Phil Ayres, who started as an ambulance driver in 1972.

In a letter to Hartson's Ambulance Service dated Sept. 8, 1971, a Dallas attorney expressed thanks to the crew that picked up his wife, who needed emergency surgery, from the La Valencia Hotel.

“I certainly compliment you on the type of associates you have if the two gentlemen who handled this call are typical of your personnel,” the man wrote.

Employees were provided with daily sack lunches at no cost – prepared at first by his youngest daughter, Bonnie – which became a company tradi tion. Another time, Mr. Hartson bought new shoes for his ambulance crews.

Mr. Hartson sold the company in the early 1980s to Ayers, another employee named Tom Morgan and two investors, and it was renamed Hartson Medical Services. Eventually, it was bought by a national transportation firm.

Mr. Hartson was an avid golfer and a longtime member of the San Diego Country Club in Chula Vista, the now-defunct Stardust Country Club in Mission Valley, and the Desert Horizon Country Club in Indian Wells.

Mr. Hartson is survived by his wife of 65 years, Juanita Hartson, of San Diego; daughters, Carol Jensen of San Diego and Bonnie Hartson of San Diego; son Gary Hartson of San Diego; and four grandchildren. Another son, Michael Hartson, died in 1969.

Services are scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph's Cathedral, 1535 Third Ave. in downtown San Diego. A parade of ambulances is planned, Carol Jensen said.

Donations are suggested to St. Joseph's Cathedral Restoration Fund, 1535 Third Ave., San Diego, CA 92101 or the Robert Hartson EMT Scholarship Fund, c/o P. Cook at Wells Fargo Bank, 510 W. Washington St., San Diego, CA 92103, (619) 682-5180.

This company was the predecessor of MedTrans, then AMR. Mr. Hartson fortunately, got out of the business before the mom and pop companies were bought out by conglomerates like AMR, MedTrans and Rural Metro. He still came around our offices when in town. If you look at today's leaders of Fire Department based EMS in San Diego County, there are more than a few Chief Officers in each department who started at Hartson's.

Unfortunately, most companies have gotten away from the personal touch Mr. Hartson instilled in his employees, who then taught new hires not just what being an EMT or Medic was all about, but the little things that separated Hartson's from other companies in San Diego County. He was an innovator, starting the first private ambulance paramedics in SD County, the first modular ambulances in the county, the first private company with a CAD in the county. He will be missed.

LA Firefighters, with a changed title to Fire Co. 132 was dreck. Rescue 77 was a joke, as well. I think they both lasted maybe three or four episodes. Funny enough, LA County is now building, planning to build, or has already placed Engine 132 in service.

Jimmy,

I don't know the exact location, but it is in the Santa Clarita Valley, somewhere around Six Flags Magic Mountain..

I know LAFD has some TDAs on order. There are currently (4) Trucks in the 2007/2008 budget on order from American La France. Delivery is estimated at the end of 2008..

Rest in Peace. Thoughts and Prayers to his family and fellow firefighters. may God watch over them during this tragic time.

Sorry, no bets. If I made bets with everyone that has asked and lost, I wouldn't be able to pay bills in February...

Packers and Chargers...

That said, If all 3 offensive stars (LT, Rivers and Gates) are out, I expect a slaughter in Foxboro next Sunday..