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The first Team Rubicon was an initial team of eight. They gathered funds and medical supplies from friends and family and flew into the Dominican Republic. They rented a truck, loaded their gear, and headed west to Haiti. The team treated thousands of patients, traveling to camps deemed "too dangerous" by other aid organizations.
Laveaga, who retired after serving for 33 years, has remained a fixture as the chaplain working with his therapy dog Jack, an 11-year-old Golden Retriever. Retired fireman brings hope to Los ...
Beckwith was 69 years old and retired for seven years following a 30-year career when he rushed to help with search-and-rescue efforts as scores of other current and former first responders did in ...
In 2016, Delaney launched an early iteration of what would eventually become the LFR model with the Uganda Red Cross Society in Iganga, Uganda. [12] A lay first responder program of 154 motorcycle taxi responders was created to explore its capacity to provide prehospital emergency care for victims of road traffic injury in a municipality of 100,000 people. [5]
Surviving first responders and their advocates are asserting that their illnesses resulted from exposure to toxins at Ground Zero. The PBA filed a lawsuit to secure benefits for Officer Christopher Hynes (then aged 36). In March 2004, he was diagnosed as having sarcoidosis. Despite the diagnosis, the NYPD refused to grant line-of-duty injury ...
Milton's race across the state brought torrential rain and flash floods to parts of the east coast and left Melbourne Orlando International Airport with a 30-by-40-foot hole in the roof.
Cassidy in May 2016. Stephen Cassidy was the longest serving President of the Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York (UFA) in its 100-year history. He was first elected to the position in August 2002 and is the only UFA President in the union's history to be elected directly out of a firehouse.
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