ATLANTA — A bus driver is still recovering at Grady Memorial Hospital from a chain reaction crash on Interstate 20 over the weekend. Six Burke County Middle School buses were heading from Waynesboro to Six Flags Over Georgia late Saturday morning when they wrecked near mile marker 97 in Newton County. One bus rear-ended another […]
Read MoreThe National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Baltimore Federal Coordination Center (FCC) is sponsored by Maryland Veterans Administration Medical Health Care System, and Veterans Health Administration Office of Emergency Management. The Baltimore FCC sponsored a full-scale exercise, on Saturday 12 May 2012. The full-scale exercise was a multi-agency, federal, state, and local multi-jurisdictional, multi-discipline exercise involving […]
Read MoreAt some point before 10:00 am, Wednesday, a caravan of 3 tour buses traveling on the Inner Loop of the Capitol Beltway in Greenbelt were involved in rear end collisions. A middle school out of Dallastown, PA was on the way for a day of sightseeing in Washington DC. as traffic slowed on the Beltway […]
Read MoreCrashes Wednesday morning on the Capital Beltway involving three tour buses sent more than a dozen people — which included sightseeing Pennsylvania students — to the hospital, according to the Prince George’s County Fire/EMS department. A box truck struck the rear of a bus of Dallastown Area Middle School students on the way to Washington, […]
Read MoreThe New Jersey EMS Task Force MAB-2 was on scene of a Hazardous Materials release at Toll Compaction in Neptune Township yesterday. The MAB provided rehab support to the HazMat team and firefighters who had to deal with a fire caused by the unintentional disposal of reactive materials into a garbage compactor attached to the […]
Read MoreFORT WASHINGTON, Md. (AP) — Prince George’s County police say a dozen students and their bus driver have suffered minor injuries in an accident, and another driver has been critically hurt. Cpl. Mike Rodriguez, a police spokesman, says the incident occurred about 8:15 a.m. Monday in the 8300-block of Indian Head Highway. Rodriguez says the […]
Read Morehttp://northjersey.mycapture.com/mycapture/lookup.asp?originalname=MC_0502L_SRhospice70p.jpg&page=image SADDLE RIVER — The Villa Marie Claire hospice was evacuated Tuesday night after high readings of carbon monoxide were detected in the building’s basement, a borough official said. MICHAEL KARAS / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER BUY THIS PHOTO Patients and staff members at the Villa Marie Claire hospice were evacuated Tuesday. Eleven patients and four staff […]
Read MoreThe Prince George’s County Fire/Emergency Medical Services Department participated in a region wide mass Casualty Incident (MCI) on Wednesday April 26. today. The scenario for the drill involved a mid air collision of two aircraft during an aerial demonstration show at Andrews Air Force Base. One aircraft goes down into a spectator area at Andrews […]
Read MoreHUFFMAN, Texas – A driver was flown to a hospital after his pickup truck collided head-on with a school bus. The collision happened on F.M. 2100 near East F.M. 1960 in Huffman about 4:20 p.m. The driver of the pickup truck swerved, crossed the center lane and slammed head on into the stopped school bus. […]
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