This video will give you a small perspective into the tireless 911 dispatchers and the job they do fielding calls from frantic people seeking emergency aid. This one’s from Collier County in Naples, Florida.

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An ambulance rushes to the scene of a suicide car bomb attack on Pakistan’s main intelligence agency in the city of Peshawar, where officials say at least 12 people have been killed and 40 injured.

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PBS has an hour-long segment of “Operation Wildfire”, a show about the wildfire firefighters we’ve heard about so much on the news. It’ll be available online only until the 18th, so check it out now:
http://video.pbs.org/video/1242221322

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May 29, 2009: A motor vehicle accident with an overturned vehicle and victim pinned on Poole Road, Raleigh, NC. Photo by John W. Franks, exclusive to Firefighter-EMT.com.

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Officials comb the scene of the fire where two firefighters died on Easter Sunday. Photo by Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle.
Two firefighters from Engine 26 were found dead after failing to show up for a roll call while battling a house fire in southeast Houston.
The Houston Fire Department says it was called to the home [...]

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A car accident scenario at the Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service College in Cheshire, England, involves a difficult extrication. The individual on the left is a prehospital doctor (his helmet describes the same), the two in yellow are paramedics, and the one on the right is a firefighter. The demonstration was part of a 3 [...]

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The exhibits opened at 9:30 this morning, so I had a somewhat late breakfast in time to make it to the opening of the exhibits hall. Following the rush of people towards several booths, I got a hold of a sturdy duffel bag from the folks at Physio, the guys behind LifePak. Above, demonstrating a [...]

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Photo courtesy of ABC News.
More than 75 percent of candidates for fire and ambulance services in Massachusetts are either overweight or obese, a situation that has major consequences for public health and safety, researchers say.
A team from BUSM, Boston Medical Center, Harvard University and the Cambridge Health Alliance reviewed the pre-placement medical examinations of 370 [...]

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Photos by Guillermo Granja, Reuters.
An Ecuadorian military plane on a training exercise crashed into an apartment building in northern Quito on Thursday, killing its three crewmembers as well as three civilians on the ground, authorities said.
The crash of the Beechcraft propeller plane killed a major, a captain and a sergeant, as well as a woman [...]

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Passengers were taken in lifeboats to west Manhattan where they were loaded in ambulances. Photo Credit: Keivom/News
Terror followed by sheer relief - the passengers and crew of US Airways flight 1549 went through an emotional rollercoaster when their Airbus A320 crashed into New York’s Hudson River.

REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Thanks to some fantastic flying by pilot Chesley “Sully” [...]

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