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'Red + teal crosses on black + white linen weave by Su_G' in a fabric mockup
Closely related (lighter background) to ’That Red Cross by Su_G': my entry in Spoonflower's Medical Professions Design Challenge.
Line art.
© Su Schaefer 2018
See ’Red + teal crosses on black + white linen weave by Su_G' as fabric @ Spoonflower
See ’Red + teal crosses on black + white linen weave by Su_G' as a duvet cover (and other home dec items) @ Roostery.
[Red+teal crosses on B+W linen weave by Su_G_fabric_mockup]
A little fun in the ambulance bay.
Strobist:
Key: phottix indra500 table topped over the subjects in a PCB parabolic set up as a large soft box, just out of frame
Fill: phottix indra500 large PCB parabolic, set up as a shoot thru umbrella directly behind me.
Accent: 600EXRT bare gelled red behind subjects.
Triggered with phottix odin, shot TTL
’That Red Cross on on white (small scale), by Su_G'. in 3 Face masks (face coverings) + Gaiter Face Mask mockups (c/o Spoonflower & Roostery)
Above: pics from All Products page
Below: pics from masks page with selection made
(www.spoonflower.com/en/masks/gaiter-face-mask/7028651 ’That Red Cross on white by Su_G’)
Design closely related to ’That Red Cross by Su_G': my entry in Spoonflower's Medical Professions Design Challenge. © Su Schaefer 2020
[That red cross on white (small scale) by Su_G_3 Face masks + Gaiter Face Mask_mockups]
The first completed VW T6 DSG 4motion unit with additions to the HART specification. Ready to be equipped and then to the trainers for familiarisation.
Be safe. Be kind. Be careful.
We are all tired of this - there’s no doubt about that. But unfortunately COVID doesn’t care how tired we are. Which is all the more reason to stay vigilant and do the right thing. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Practice social distancing and limit exposure to others. It is going to get worse before it gets better, but we have the power to make the bad less bad.
Thank you to everyone for doing your part.
'That Red Cross by Su_G' in an Isobar Wallpaper Mockup (c/o Roostery)
’That Red Cross by Su_G' my entry in Spoonflower's Medical Professions Design Challenge. Imagining this as waiting room wallpaper, but also commemorating the arrival of Jean-Henri Dunant in Solferino in 1859, the day after a battle left 40,000 dead, maimed & untreated: an event that led to the creation of protected, neutral systems of treatment for battlefield war casualties, under that red cross (and crescent).
Line art.
© Su Schaefer 2018
See ’That Red Cross by Su_G' as fabric @ Spoonflower
[That Red Cross by Su_G_Isobar Wallpaper_Mockup]
Heavy Equipment Carrier for the Special Operations Response Teams. MB Sprinter 519 4x4 V6 auto with Night Owl LED flood light mast, CCTV and awning
UVM conversion. 4motion, four wheel drive. Used on the Islands where a large bodied ambulance is unsuitable for the road system.
Scottish Ambulance Service, Special Operations Response Teams (SORT) (HART)
Heavy Equipment (Secondary) and Forward Command Vehicle
2006 Volkswagen Transporter T5 2.5l Special Operations Logistics Vehicle. Was used for the delivery and collection of specialised equipment from SORT bases and emergency response to resupply SORT and other paramedic units at major incidents. Also used to provide supplies and welfare at large mass gatherings.
The first completed VW T6 DSG 4motion unit with additions to the HART specification. Ready to be equipped and then to the trainers for familiarisation.
Specialist Practitioner Unit and Emergency Support Unit to the left. VW Transporter T6 HL 4motion to the right. Scottish Ambulance Service, Special Operations Response Teams (SORT) (HART)
Three of the six 2009 Landrover Defender 110 SW vehicles operated by the National Risk and Resilience Department, Special Operations Response Teams. All members of SORT were required to pass a course of off road driving in the 110's and Polaris 6x6. Defenders were basic Station Wagon specification but with heated seats and ABS. 2.4 diesel, 6 speed through a 2 speed transfer box with high / low and centre diff lock. GOH and GOP are pulling the Bateson twin axle trailers containing 2 6x6 Polaris Rangers.
Ford Mondeo Demonstrator Paramedic Response Unit on trial at the time with Yorkshire Ambulance Service.
Primary Incident Response Unit for the Scottish Ambulance Service Specialist Operations Section of the National Risk and Resilience Department. Operated by Specialist Paramedics.
Just arrived from VCS, the first Mercedes 519 4x4 as yet unregistered Heavy Equipment Carrier for the Special Operations Response Teams. Iveco 65 IRU in the background.
With Kind Permission of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Very impressive and comprehensive range of major incident response vehicles and equipment. On the right, Mercedes Benz 1820, demountable. In the middle, Ford Transit equipment carrier and on the left an Iveco Unit.
New T5 bi-turbo ready to replace the 2008 Honda Units. Awaiting registration plates. Scottish Ambulance Service, National Risk and Resilience Department, Special Operations Response Teams, SORT Response Units.
Walked out of work today to see a lighting storm off in the distance. Used Olympus' Live Composite feature again to track it across the sky over the course of a half hour or so.
4x4, V6 Heavy Equipment Carrier for the Special Operations Response Teams, just arrived. Ready for PDI and registration.
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Wide view shot. Mossend District General Hospital Emergency Department Annex is busy with both Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) and Police vehicles and staff. A multi casualty accident has resulted in a Major Incident being declared. Hospital staff wait outside to triage sift incoming patients to Resus, Majors, Minors and the waiting room. The three emergency service vehicles parked in front of A&E are my own Code 3 work. The Strathclyde Police Range Rover arrived to me with working blue lights but in the Metropolitan Police’ “jam sandwich” livery. Having removed this, I then applied Battenburg retro-reflective markings, including yellow on door pillars. The BMW estate represents SAS’ Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS “ScotSTAR”)/Trauma Team or Doctors car, it like the Nissan, had green and yellow Battenburg applied.
Story -
Staff at the Emergency Department of Mossend Hospital were put on alert to stand by for multiple trauma patients following a serious Road Traffic Collision (RTC). The motorway smash involving a minibus, HGV and car saw SAS Ambulance crews racing several patients to Hospital medics who waited outside for their arrival. NHS Lanarkside bosses made social media appeals to only attend A&E or dial 999 only for critical emergencies and suggested contacting NHS24 or attending Minor Injury Units (MIU). Sergeant Jock McCulloch of Strathclyde Roads Policing team said: “This collision happened at a busy time of day and resulted in the closure of the motorway for several hours to allow a full collision investigation to take place. We are appealing for anyone with information to come forward. If you were driving in the area at the time and have dash cam footage, please contact Police on 101.”
A spokesperson from the Scottish Ambulance Service said: “At 1528hours today, Ambulance Control staff received multiple 999 calls regarding a serious RTC. A number of Ambulance resources were dispatched including Paramedic Response cars, Trauma Team and our Special Operations Response Team (SORT). Several patients were transported by road to nearby Hospitals.”
Witnesses claim to have seen and heard a male driver being breathalysed and told he had failed and was under arrest. Police sources refused to comment other than stating “Should criminality be established, a report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal (PF).”
Reality -
I found a new seller on that well known auction site and they make 3D printed figures in a variety of scales. I also took delivery of Vallejo paint - “basic skin tone”. All of my figures who required it have now been repainted into much more natural complexions than their previous pink. I’ve taken these pictures to display two new additions, both Doctors, one figure is a Surgeon (traditionally titled “Mr, Mrs, Ms” rather than Dr in Britain) wearing dark blue scrubs, a surgical face mask and hair cover and holding a clipboard. The second Doctor also holds a clipboard and wears blue scrubs, but also wears a white lab coat. Also featured in this shoot is my 1:76 scale model of a Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) Paramedic Response Unit (PRU). This model has previously been featured in my pictures, however with an incorrect Battenberg marking set. The Nissan 4x4 shown, which stands in for Hyundai and previously Honda 4x4 vehicles used by the real SAS, now has the correct larger Battenburg markings along with yellow reflective markings around the door pillars.
#WPD22Objects #NHSScotland
Three of the six 2009 Landrover Defender 110 SW vehicles operated by the National Risk and Resilience Department, Special Operations Response Teams. All members of SORT were required to pass a course of off road driving in the 110's and Polaris 6x6. Defenders were basic Station Wagon specification but with heated seats and ABS. 2.4 diesel, 6 speed through a 2 speed transfer box with high / low and centre diff lock.
Kelley-Hixson Funeral Home in Beaumont, Texas used this ambulance built by Superior on a Cadillac chasis. The photogaph was taken in early 1980s by Robert Knowles.
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Charles Kelley, a native of Detroit, Michigan, grew up in Piggott, Arkansas. As a young boy he began working in a local hardware store to help support his family and, then in 1940, he moved to San Antonio, Texas as an office worker with Graham Paper Company. There he met and in 1942 married Doris Weisiger, who was office secretary at the First Baptist Church San Antonio.
Kelley later served in the Army Air Corps as a pilot doing troop transports in the southwest Pacific during World War II. He was among the first of his group to return to the United States near the end of the war due to the point system. He was sent home because he had a wife, a child, and a large number of missions he had flown. Kelley received orders after his leave to report to Hondo, Texas which was near San Antonio. A few months later he was discharged in 1945. He returned to his job at Graham Paper Company in San Antonio.
A few months after his second child was born, the Hixson family of Lake Charles, Louisiana invited him to move there to work in their funeral home. They told Kelley they would buy another funeral home if he liked the business and promised to make him the managing partner of that business. They also told him that some day he could buy all of it. They kept their word.
Kelley did enjoy the funeral business and the Hixsons made it possible for him to attend Landig College of Mortuary Science in Houston, Texas. He served as treasurer for his class and graduated in 1948.
The Hixson Family of Louisiana bought Roberts Undertaking Company in June of 1949. Kelley was then named managing partner. A short time later they bought Pipkin-Brulin Funeral Home, so they were able to merge two of Beaumont’s oldest funeral homes. Kelley was then named managing partner of Roberts and Pipkin-Brulin Funeral Home, which became Kelley-Hixson Funeral Home in 1962. By 1965, Kelley became the sole owner of what was then the Golden Triangle’s largest single funeral firm, operating an ambulance, including air service, as well.
Kelley always showed great ingenuity and creativity in his business. When he and the Hixsons built the new facility, they designed the building to resemble a gracious residence like the other Hixson Funeral Homes in Louisiana. He was a pioneer in advertising for funeral directors. He was one of the first to use color in print ads, and to advertise on television, often appearing in his own TV spots.
A funeral director in Beaumont for more than 42 years, Kelley devoted himself to making the hardest of times easier for grieving families. His compassionate, caring manner brought solace to many and earned him the respect of his peers and the gratitude of the residents of the Golden Triangle. During his tenure as manager, then partner, and finally owner, Kelley-Hixson Funeral Home became the leading funeral home in the area. Charles Kelley added to the full-service Funeral Home a cemetery (Haven of Rest), located five miles west of Beaumont at Green Pond Road and U.S. 90, and even a crematorium, the first in that area. Kelley served as President and Treasurer and in other positions of leadership for the Preferred Funeral Directors, International, and served on the Board of Directors of the Funeral Directors and Embalmers of Texas. He received the prestigious Texas Funeral Directors Association Distinguished Service Award for 1983. Kelley always maintained that “Funeral directors are like ministers. Only the role of a funeral director is not that of a talker, but that of a listener. The function of a funeral director is to provide the time, place, and atmosphere for grieving families and friends to come together and share their grief. . . . We deal with the living. At these times, they’re hurting, and we can relieve the hurt by providing good service and care.”
When Kelley retired in 1991, he sold the family business to Frank Watkins, a 23-year veteran of the funeral business. Watkins later sold the business to the Claybar family of Orange, Texas who have continued the tradition of family-operated service.
Kelley was active in the Lions’ Club, the Beaumont Knife and Fork Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and he served as president of the Marshall Junior High School P.T.A. in Beaumont. He was an active member of the First Baptist Church of First Baptist Church for a half century, during which time he served as chairman of the deacons, Sunday School teacher, and in leadership positions as a member of many committees.
Kelley also was one of the founding partners in Wildwood Resort City, located 34 miles north of Beaumont on U.S. 69. Beginning in 1963, the partners developed 1,800 acres of woodland and built a man-made lake. They sold the property in 1974.
While a member of the Board of Trustees of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Charles Kelley, together with his wife Doris, made the largest pledge ever to Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for the seminary’s capital campaign. Their pledge of $100,000 was to be paid upon sale of a piece of investment property, but the Kelleys decided that they wanted to encourage other members of the Board and friends of the seminary to support the seminary during the period they were without a president. They completed that pledge far ahead of schedule.
Charles Kelley is survived by his wife of 64 years and by their five children. Their daughter, Dorothy, is the wife of Dr. Paige Patterson, president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas; Kathy Kelley is the librarian at an elementary school in Las Vegas, Nevada; Charlene Kelley is a registered nurse in Fort Worth, Texas; Charles S. (Chuck) Kelley, Jr., is president of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and resides with his wife, Rhonda, in New Orleans, Louisiana; and Eileen Kelley Turrentine is the wife of Steve Turrentine, pastor of Pikes Peak Park Baptist Church, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Kelley is also survived by 8 grandchildren (Armour Patterson is a free-lance author living with his wife in Arizona; Carmen Patterson Howell is the wife of the pastor of Northwest Baptist Church living in Houston, Texas with her family; Beth Kaemmerling is on the staff of Guidestone Resources in Dallas, Texas; Angie Kaemmerling Brock and her family reside in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; Kelley Kaemmerling Wagner resides with her family in Farmersville, Texas; Perry Kaemmerling is a fireman in Waxahachie, Texas; Claire Kaemmerling and Sarah Turrentine are pursuing baccalaureate degrees) and 9 great-grandchildren.
“In addition to being a fabulous father, Dad was the quintessential local churchman. He was the deacon that every pastor wishes he had. His devotion extended beyond the local church to the institutions and agencies of the Southern Baptist Convention. In addition to serving on the Human Welfare Commission and State Missions Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, he also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Midwestern Seminary and gave generously not only there but also to New Orleans Seminary where his son now serves as president and to Southeastern Seminary where his daughter served alongside me while I was president of that institution. Dad and Mom followed us to Southwestern Seminary with their membership in the President’s Club. As a mortician, he ended up much more as a minister to the grieving than as a funeral director burying the dead. In short, few men have ever lived so unselfishly as Charles Kelley.” Paige Patterson, son-in-law of Charles Kelley and President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Brown Claybar in personal correspondence in 1983 said, “Mr. Kelley is a role model for the funeral practitioner and has been successful in every facet of funeral service.” (personal letter March 11, 1983).
Visitation will be on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 from 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. at the Leavell Chapel on the campus of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 3939 Gentilly Blvd., New Orleans, LA. The funeral service will follow at 11:00 a.m. in the Leavell Chapel. A memorial service and internment will be on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. at the Claybar-Kelley-Watkins Funeral Home in Beaumont, Texas. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to your local church, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, or Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Date of Birth – May 17, 1920
Place of Birth – Detroit, MI
Date of Death – December 9, 2006
Place of Burial – Beaumont, TX
One of two operated by the Scottish Ambulance Service, one on the Island of Arran and the other in Inverness, primarily at the HEMS base and then as a spare in the Borders. Here seen on loan to the Special Operations Response Team at their first base at McDonald Road Fire Station in Edinburgh. This one is also unusual as it has alloy wheels - they are only on it as it was almost impossible for the Fleet Department to source steel wheels - and all the better for it!