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• Firefighters rescue 2 workers stuck in elevator 6 stories high

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  Firefighters used harnesses and ropes to lower the two men six stories to the ground safely

• 5 active shooter survival recommendations

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  Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission draft report has active shooter survival recommendations for EMS, police and school leaders

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  AED Superstore

  Simplicity and durability are traits you should look for in your AED

• After-action report: Tactical EMS lessons from terror attack

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  Training rescue task force medics and SWAT medics for responding to mass casualty incidents

• Apply best-available data to active shooter incident planning, training

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  Paramedic chiefs and field providers have much to learn from the FBI’s ongoing summary and analysis of active shooter incidents

• IPSA seeks input on Rescue Task Force best practices

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  Feedback will be accepted through June 30, 2018

• Parkland new benchmark for EMS active shooter response

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  Future active shooter responder's use of victim-generated video will be compared against the Parkland response

• How to avoid the most common active shooter training mistakes

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  Great active shooter incident training takes a concerted effort to make exercises real, relevant, interesting and captivating for all participants

• Firefighters rescue teen trapped 350 feet inside cave

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  Firefighters secured the girl with a harness after she became stuck while on a school field trip

• Mountain rescues to get high-tech boost with new fire department drones

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  Delivering a bottle of water or a cell phone to an injured and stranded hiker are among the possibilities with the department's two new DJI Matrice Drones

• Rescue squad rallies behind colleague injured in crash

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  Henderson County Rescue Squad set up a GoFundMe for Pat Stefan, who has had three surgeries after being thrown 20 feet from her motorcycle

• Mo. rescue crew turns to crowdsharing to buy boat

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  Newton County Rescue and Recovery is using GoFundMe with a $20,000 goal to purchase a 16-foot get boat and equipment

• Rescue crew saves man from hole after he was trapped for 6 days

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  An emergency crew rescued the homeless man after construction workers heard his cries for help

• Why states took so long to dispatch disaster aid to Puerto Rico

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  State officials say Puerto Rico was slow to ask for or accept assistance — a charge the commonwealth governor disputes

• Rescue crew saves man who jumped from bridge

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  Police radio communications indicated that workers on the bridge called 911 after seeing the man jump into the water

• Off-road ambulance to help Hurricane Maria victims

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  Clinton First Aid and Rescue Squad is deploying its ASAP, or Alternate Support Apparatus, unit to help in rescue efforts

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