Category: News

Wayne NJ MAB Bus at Multi-Alarm Brush Fire

ROXBURY (WABC) — Firefighters are battling a raging brush fire in New Jersey Wednesday morning. The flames initially broke out at the Nature’s Choice Corporation, located at 1405 Route 46 in Roxbury, Morris County, around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Company officials say their employees were maintaining the burn until they lost control around 4 a.m. Wednesda. […]

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NJ MAB Units in Action: Vans Warped Tour Music Festival, HazMat/Rehab Assignment in Totowa, and Bobby Flay/Drew’s Bayshore Bistro Throwdown Event

NJEMS Task Force members report that MAB-2, MAB-6 and MAB-11 were used recently. Event 1: NJEMS MABs assisted at the Vans Warped Tour Music Festival . MAB 6 was on hand for worker rehab. At one point, the medical treatment tent was overcrowded and MAB-6 was commissioned to transport about a dozen walking patients to […]

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Gas explosion in Chinatown building sends eight people to a Manhattan hospital

Twelve people have been injured in an apparent gas explosion in downtown Manhattan today. A building in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood has partially collapsed as a result of the explosion. Three of the twelve injured are said to be in critical condition in local hospitals. One of the nine others injured was a firefighter who […]

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Louisville MAB Unit Responds – Car Wrecks School Bus Carrying 31 Children

Posted: Jul 10, 2013 2:22 PM EDT Updated: Jul 10, 2013 2:27 PM EDT By Valerie Chinn – bio | email LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Louisville Metro Police say a dozen summer camp children were injured after a bus crash. The children are from Watterson Elementary’s Child Enrichment Program and were on their way to […]

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Brunswick County MAB Unit Respondes to Deck Collapse In Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., Injuring 21

OCEAN ISLE BEACH, NC (WWAY) — Twenty-one people were hurt when a deck collapsed at a home on the west side of Ocean Isle Beach Tuesday night. Brunswick County Emergency Services Director Anthony Marzano said 21 people had to go to the hospital, of those 13 went to Grand Strand Regional Medical Center in Myrtle […]

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Metro Atlanta prepares for mass casualty incidents with new MAB buses

Posted: Jul 07, 2013 11:44 PM EDT Updated: Jul 07, 2013 11:52 PM EDT By Sonia Moghe CBS Atlanta 46 ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) – Imagine having to send one ambulance for each victim to the scene of a plane crash. In the case of Saturday’s crash at San Francisco International Airport, that would be more […]

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1 killed, 77 injured in Geismar chemical plant explosion

Paul Murphy / Eyewitness News Email: pmurphy@wwltv.com | Twitter: @pmurphywwl NEW ORLEANS — Hazmat crews responded Thursday to the scene of a powerful explosion and fire at a petro chemical plant up river. There is one person confirmed dead, 29-year-old Zachary C. Green of Hammond, and dozens of injured workers. Black smoke continues to rise […]

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Blown tire possible cause as 35 are hurt in bus accident, including 30 Waggener High students

Thirty Waggener High School students and five others were injured Tuesday afternoon when the bus they were riding in veered out of control on Interstate 64, crossed two lanes of traffic and slammed into a concrete barrier. The stunning crash was captured by the dashboard camera of a truck driver traveling behind the bus, showing […]

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At least 35 injured in crash on I-64 of bus carrying Waggener High students

4:38 p.m. Alicia Smiley, an LMPD spokeswoman, said at the scene that traffic investigators have not yet determined the cause of the accident. 4:33 p.m. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Keith Holloway said the NTSB was aware of the accident but was not investigating it. An NTSB database shows Commonwealth has not been investigated by […]

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