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2. Toronto (CAN-TF3) Heavy Urban Search and Rescue - Wikipedia

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   CAN-TF3 is operated by Toronto Fire Services, in collaboration with Toronto Police Service and Toronto EMS created to deal with search and rescue operations in the City of Toronto. [1] This specialized unit was created following the September 11 attacks in New York City, United States and allows the city to deal with large-scale disasters. The ...

3. 911 (emergency telephone number) - Wikipedia

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   The first use of a national emergency telephone number began in the United Kingdom in 1937 using the number 999, which continues to this day. [6] In the United States, the first 911 service was established by the Alabama Telephone Company and the first call was made in Haleyville, Alabama, in 1968 by Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite and answered by U.S. Representative Tom Bevill.

4. Emergency Task Force (Toronto Police Service) - Wikipedia

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   Officers of the ETF in 2007. The Emergency Task Force (ETF) is the police tactical unit of the Toronto Police Service.Created in 1965, it is mandated to deal with high-risk situations like hostage-taking, emotionally disturbed persons, high-risk arrests, warrant service, protection details, and crowd control.

5. BT and Openreach workers vow to ‘keep going’ as 999 call ...

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   The Communication Workers Union said around 40,000 of its members staged the walkout on Thursday, joined for the first time by 999 call handlers. BT and Openreach workers vow to ‘keep going ...

6. 999: What's Your Emergency? - Wikipedia

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   999: What's Your Emergency? is a British television documentary. Broadcast on Channel 4 , the show provides insight into modern Britain through the eyes of the emergency services, using a mixture of fly-on-the-wall footage taken at incidents and retrospective interviews with the people and staff featured.

7. Toronto Paramedic Services - Wikipedia

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   Toronto may very well be able to claim to have the first formally trained 'ambulance attendants' in North America, with the Toronto Police Force ambulance service staff receiving five days of formal training in their jobs from the St. John Ambulance Brigade in 1889. [4] Training included first aid skills, anatomy and physiology. Such training ...

8. Toronto Fire Services - Wikipedia

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   The Toronto Fire Department and successor Toronto Fire Services has operated fire boats since 1923. Fireboat Charles A. Reed was the first fireboat operated by the service; it was a wood-hull boat that entered service in 1923 and remained in use until 1964. [18]

9. Toronto Transit Commission personnel - Wikipedia

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   In 2011, the provincial government passed the Toronto Transit Commission Labour Disputes Resolution Act (a.k.a. the TTC Act) to prohibit TTC strikes because the TTC was considered to be an essential service. However, in 2023, an Ontario Superior Court judge ruled that the act was unconstitutional as the government failed to show why the TTC is ...