Behind the Seams: National Police Week, New EMS Documentary and More
Watch the trailer for Firestorm (above), a documentary that follows the Los Angeles Fire Department, which handles all of LA’s emergency medical services. (Happy Medic) Remember the heroes during National Police Week May 9-15. (Positive LEO) The Paramedic’s Diary gets a shout out in The Times. Congrats! (The Paramedic’s Diary) For many, it’s not all [...]
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Behind The Seams: Car Bombs, Tweet Ups and More
New York police save Times Square from a car bomb. (Positive LEO) Get ready for the first UK CoEMS tweet up! (Medic 999) What’s more thrilling? Computer shopping or chasing the bad guys? (Behind the Blue Line) Why concealed carry is right for Europe. (Crime File News) Two drunk men take an ambulance for a [...]
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Tactical Apparel Company Launches Social Media Site
Lion Apparel, a clothing manufacturer for fire and rescue, law enforcement and military, has launched a social media site that combines blogging with aggregate content from Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. The new site called Lion Connects focuses on providing tips to firefighters and rescue personnel from how to care for a firefighter turnout to how [...]
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Behind the Seams: Dash Cam Deadly Shootout, Social Networking No-no’s and Healthy Eating Hints
VIDEO: Dash cam footage from a deadly Kansas City shootout, aptly described by Johnny Law as “some scary sh**.” (The Johnny Law Chronicles) Law enforcement and LinkedIn: The most underused executive social network wants you. (Cops 2.0) Police Magazine cover story “Watch What You Post” looks at officers pushing the social networking envelope. (Police Magazine) [...]
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5 Outstanding Fire/EMS Twitter Accounts
You might recall that we recently published the top 101 military Twitter accounts on our sister blog over at MilitaryBoots.com. We were about to go through blood, sweat and tears again to dig up the best of the best in fire/EMS on the microblogging site, until we discovered The Fire Critic has already done all [...]
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