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It 0139 hrs. That's just a little past "zero drunk thirty". You are in the highway median, working a wreck. But, given the former, the latter is to be expected.

This one is an entrapment with extended extraction required. The patient is on high flow oxygen, because his condition meets the criteria for it. And, the gauge has gradually dropped into the red.

They looked interesting. I don't remember ever seeing Nitrile gloves that are black on the outside and orange on the inside. Having piqued my interest, I arranged for some samples to evaluate. We even have some to share. (See below.)

Fifteen years later, the stood together, sharing their stories of that day, discovering they had met before.

Col. Rob Maness held the man's IV, spoke encouraging words and tried to keep him conscious, the day hijackers flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon. For years he wondered. Had the man survived?

Lt. Col. Brian Birdwell wondered too. Who was with him, pitching in with EMS at the scene as he lay severely burned and expecting to die?

Sergeant Craig Hutchinson was killed, July 26, 2014, as he returned home from his shift. According to media reports, he observed subjects removing items from his backyard shed and radioed for backup. Minutes later they discovered Sgt. Hutchinson with a gunshot wound. He was transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The latest edition of Texas EMS Trauma News is available.

Visit Texas EMS Trauma News home for a .PDF copy.

E0824 Partner Coordination of Disaster Response & Recovery,

E0209 State Recovery Planning and Coordination,

E0361 Multi-hazard Emergency Planning for Schools

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We are always looking for the latest public safety news to offer through our social media presence. Frankly, it is the bait which we hope will bring our primary targeted audience to us, so we can nag them into working and living safely.

That audience is the First Responder community, a subset of the Public Safety community. That's a subset of the communities they serve.

While the public is able to read this content, that is not our focus.

If you are working on your property or enjoying the outdoors, in Texas, you should know if your County is prohibiting fires.

The folks at Texas Forest Service, keep track of the info from individual counties and we offer it to you here, in real-time, with links to TFS for more information.

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We're celebrating National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (April 10-16).

Titles vary among agencies. If "Telecommunicator" doesn't paint a verbal picture for you, think "Call Taker" and "Dispatcher". In some places, it is the same person who does both. At some agencies, today's Call Taker may be tomorrow's Dispatcher. Or the other way around. Kinda' like "Today's complainant is tomorrow's suspect". Well, maybe not.

While some may be lighting up the outdoor grill to serve the finest Telecommunicators the finest hot dogs the budget can afford, we will take a different approach.

We're going to tell a few secrets. Not the sanitized-for-TV stuff, either. These are the secrets about which you might tell what, but not who, when or where. Usually, why has to remain a mystery, anyway -- because we'll just never know.

The job is not for everyone

We have curated a few videos to help illustrate what Public Safety Telecommunicators experience. A theme, common to many of the videos, is "the job is not for everyone".