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http://www.lohud.com/article/20090326/COLU...0465/-1/opinion Thanks to the EMTBravo family, the Hudak family is getting more support and funds than it knows what to do with!

Just a sad, disturbing update to the story- the 2 girls AND the brother who killed them are going to be buried together and there will be 1 service for all 3. The brother, by the way, was ramping up for yrs to this level of violence- 2 jail stints for assault/carrying a gun/etc. - also got in trouble a few yrs prior for punching the teen sister in the face (she owed him money, apparently). Sad. These parents have to bury 3 of their own children, knowing 1 of them is entirely to blame for it all. I'm a parent- that concept just baffles me and breaks my heart. RIP to these kids.

I agree- the asumption of mental illness is not always a correct one. The more likely explanation is some hard-core drug like meth, crack, dust and/or any combo of these that this guy took. Add that to any otherwise "normal" but pissed off brain and you are almost guaranteed violence in a much more brutal, barbaric form than one would normally see. My heartfelt condolences go those who died and to those who survived but witnessed these horrors.

Who's they (they don't want people tubed)? I don't understand your question- ACLS is geared for anyone providing 1st response care pre- OR in-hospital. Do you mean allowing ACLS treatments for BLS responders, like an EMT tubing the afore-mentioned arrest victim? Duck, then. I feel a poo storm coming over that proposal. And, regarding the abdomen of the same victim after admin of OPA and PROPER BVM ventilations... it should not look any more pregnant than when you started.

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Imagine the Batmobile busting bad guys in Bismarck, North Dakota, or "Knight Rider's" KITT corralling criminals on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Carbon Motors Corp.'s E7 concept vehicle was on display recently near the U.S. Capitol. Full article on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/23/high.te...ref=mpstoryview One word: H-H-Hot!!!!!!!

Perhaps there is something in the last name of each of these mopes... according to this morning's Lohud article, their last name is BEERS. I kid you not-- straight from the files of "You can't make this ++++ up!"

And never assume that person even CARES if you're a good guy. How horribly tragic- for the firefighter and for this old man.

Perhaps NOW it will dawn on someone to take away his "costume" ?? Geez- what he did is so dangerous and yet a little pathetic, too. He just wanted to "help." The mind of a true EDP is a very scary place.

The vehicle operator just wanted to know the turning radius of his vehicle and the speed at which traction is lost in a tight turn or otherwise evasive maneuver. I review such things during every snow storm in a local restaurant parking lot, provided no one is around and no vehicular obstacles are present to impede my "research." That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

Me, too. You need to take the diaghragm thing apart and swab under it (with a 50/50 water/bleach mix) and around the edges to really get all the cooties. Then soak the wafer thing that touches the pt. after each shift. Those gross little things really burrow in under there so just swabbing the part that touches the patient isn't nearly enough. I never understood why RN's and MD's walk around with these cootie carrying steths around their necks, going pt. to pt., without cleaning it between pts. It's like blowing your nose into a handkerchief, then letting some stranger use your kerchief and then PUTTING IT BACK INTO YOUR POCKET. Just so flippin' gross!

I honestly and naively thought we had a bit of privacy posting here on EMTBravo- at least among only verified members like me. Turns out if you Google any of our screen names and EMTBravo, you get to where I'm typing right now. Or to my member profile. You even get my latest posts to the forums. That means media can read this stuff, family of both good and bad guys, EDP's, etc. In the interest of protecting the privacy of my LE family and myself as well, I think I'm going to become another lurker now (never posting but always reading). Stay well and safe, all. Tapout

I agree 100%. I own up to anything I've put out there till now. But I will now only put info out there that I'd want good, BAD, or indifferent guy to know about me and/or my family. That's all.

Hi, Jack. Anonymous, here. Wink... I feel this way based on a literal lifetime of fear of bad guys finding my law enforcement family members. I will revise any member profile info I have put out there, but more importantly, I want anyone who puts their actual name in their signatures or member profiles to know that what I, as good guy, can see... as lurking and potentially stalking bad guy. Thanks for the input. I had no idea anyone would even post about this or give a rat's heiny. I just wanted the fact that it's accessible out there. Thanks, Seth, for helping me to let everyone on Bravo know they need to be a bit more careful and self-protective.

Hello, Doc... The Journal News covered the story Monday, but there has been no follow-up since. The Lohud discussion forums got pretty ugly, as usual. Even some of the "hostages" and their family members went on bashing rants. Enjoy... http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...EWS02/903020344

Hilarious! This pic made my day. The level of stupidity out there is just overwhelming sometimes, but as someone stated previously, it's job security for those of us who have to clean up messes like this. I also agree with the other poster who, if this had happened to him, would have been through his window, into the other vehicle and on this guy like a rabid chimp....

Ah, yes... high, fighting-mad, carried in face-down (to the poor fools like yours truly) to the local ED by cops. Good times. Musta' been just another full moon on a Friday night.

On a much more serious note than my previous post, I have to chime in from the viewpoint of the receiver of ground vs. ALS transport victims to the medical center ED. In a nutshell: it barely affects the overall patient outcome either way. I, as the road wreck receiver, prefer the patient to come to us by ground, for the following reasons: in the hands of whichever medic is on scene (and thanks to him or her) we get the patient stabilized, with fat bilateral large bore IV's and a bag-o-bloods, along with a comprehensive head-to-toe assessment of exactly what needs to get fixed in-house. That equates to 20 minutes I DON'T need to spend doing all of the same things and means I get road wreck up to the O.R. 20 minutes sooner. Save the bird for the really, really, really almost DOA cases. Everything else should be left in the more-than-capable hands of the local EMT-P's and their awesome -B's.

From ALS Firefighter: "How was this woman "lucky?" Was it luck? Or was it simply that the safety features of the vehicle...seat belt, airbag?, and the design of the crumple zones defused the energy in the way it was designed to do? Was she lucky she chose that car model? Or how about if she was that lucky...she wouldn't have been doing whatever to cause her to smash into the backhoe. Why isn't the guy in the backhoe the lucky one. Little upper body support in those vehicles that are solid construction.... Just food for thought." She was lucky for many reasons, ALS... first and foremost, she did not die and didn't even lose any (major) body parts. Second, given the make of car, she's lucky her parents sprung for such an economical yet overall well-built vehicle. Third, she's lucky she was NOT miserable backhoe-driver guy. This pic breaks my heart-before all this, he was happily driving along at like 4mph... and he's thinking, "Woohoo! TGIF to ME! I'm off at 3pm, at happy hour by 4pm, tanked by 5... then BAMMMMM! What the ---- was that?!" Seriously, look at this poor b---tard suffering over in front of the fire truck. You think he's feeling lucky right now? Hardly! Now HIM I feel sorry for... NOT the driver who didn't even notice the enormous yellow construction vehicle doing all of 5mph in front of her.

Yeah, that was one of my favorite stories this month! What I found almost as funny as the man-eating dog in the backseat who scared off the carjacker was the fact that the vehicle owner runs an energy conservation company... yet drives a HUMMER! Can't make this stuff up, I tell ya...

Well-said. I have to agree with Weaselff. And for whoever asked about leaving keys in my ignitiion to run for a bagel or cup of coffee? Never ever EVER. Nowhere. Not even in foofy Bedford Hills or Bronxville or in my own dang driveway! Where do you think the bad guys are lurking most (in towns like I mentioned), expecting all the naive locals to do such a careless thing as leave a nice shiny car open and running???

Signing this might get the house that was destroyed by the Continental Airlines flight re-built by ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. It's the least anyone can do for the family of the man in the house who was killed that night, right? Thanks in advance to anyone who signs it.... http://www.petitiononline.com/Hope4You/

Hello, signers! The latest signature tally: 152,642. And, according to ABC News the night after this thread started, the petition was signed 7,000 more times! Outstanding. I hope our few signatures made a dent and I hope that, at the very least, this family knows we were ALL thinking of them and wanting to help them. Way to go--- attaboys all around!

I said in the reply to you that perhaps the family could request re-building on another site, if they win this contest. I am not insisting they build on the crash site. As a matter of fact, that should be deemed sacred land and a memorial to ALL the victims should be built there.

I'd certainly take into consideration the family's wishes IF I KNEW THEM. But I don't so I can't. Perhaps, if they are chosen and express what you think are their views and wishes, the show will accomodate them and build elsewhere. Thanks for the input.

Yes, of course... but this show restores the memories lost and creates memorials within the house that honor those they are mourning. It's so much more than the exterior structure that was destroyed. It was their life together, their memories, their photos and mementos. This show is SO good at acknowledging all of those non-tangible losses, and they manage to restore it in a newer, bigger, better way every dang time they re-build. Someday when I hit Megamillions Lotto, you're gonna see my cheesy face on this show, happily designing every single room from scratch, thanking all my EMTBravo brothers and sisters for getting me here to where I always wanted to be but had to keep the day job to pay all the dang bills instead. You'll see... seriously!