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  • Injured Seattle firefighter's award of $12.75 million upheld by court
    The state Court of Appeals has upheld a King County jury verdict that awarded $12.75 million to a former Seattle firefighter who was injured in an on-duty fall in 2003. Tuesday's ruling is the second time a court has upheld the October 2009 judgment by a Superior Court jury that found Mark Jones was left permanently disabled after falling through a fire-station pole hole.
    - PUB DATE: 2/22/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: seattle times
  • National study involving Airzona fire department shows safer treatment for seizure victims
    A better, safer emergency treatment for potentially fatal seizure victims has been found, according to a federal study that involved the University of Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center and the Glendale Fire Department. The National Institutes of Health announced today the results of a two-year study involving the drugs administered by emergency personnel to seizure victims showing that an alternate drug, given by intramuscular injection, is faster and is a more effective way to stop a prolonged seizure lasting longer than five minutes.
    - PUB DATE: 2/22/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: uanews.com
  • New Report Highlights Wireless Broadband Benefits for Public Safety and Job Creation
    PHOTO: Vice President Biden met with law enforcement officials, firefighters and public safety groups in the Roosevelt Room and spoke to a couple hundred more first responders by telephone to thank them for their service and to discuss the new nationwide public-safety broadband network included in the Payroll Tax Extension legislation.
    - PUB DATE: 2/22/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: whitehouse.gov
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