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Behind the Queens Head at Dogmersfield, a K6 telephone kiosk, now in use as a library and housing a defibrillator, alongside an Elizabeth II lamp post box.
Whats inside:
Change of clothes
Fleece, shemagh, gloves
EDC kit in wallet organizer
GTG bars
Flash Drive (keep current family photos, contact info, and other things for an emergency)
Wallet
Large carabiner
Headlamp Rayovac (I actually like it better than my Streamlite)
2 way radios I live in a rural area they work great but if in the city forget it.
Cheap prepaid phone
Rain poncho
Leatherman Wingman
Inhaler (allergy season) got to be able to run.
Enhanced medkit
waterproof pill case with vitamins and others.
Zippo
Rape whistle
Compass
MP3 player and earbuds
Cheap lighter
Pepper Spray
Small CK obsession
Pit sauce
Small flashlight
USB charger
Extra batteries
Kershaw Vapor knife
Beretta M9 pistol
Gun Mags (AR is always in the trunk)
Watch
Cold Steel Kobun Knife
And a lot more you cant see in medkit and EDC kit.
this pump is inserted for a contant supply of painkillers into the patient, without having to swallow pills and harm the stomach. it's usually for severe local pain (e.g. after a knee joint replacement) or for long-term treatment.
A very interesting car I saw at Jacksonville International Airport before departing for NYC. The cars have AED defibrillators inside, which leads me to believe the officers may be dual-certified in EMS and law enforcement duties, but i've never known about this agency until now. The black graphic on the side also resembles a private jet, which was really cool (after I took a couple hours to notice it.)
"Hey! This kid here is out cold. He just passed out right in front of me."
"Thank you. We will take him."
Bond brought the body of Levi into the hospital and followed the nurses taking him to the ER.
"He has suffered head trauma and has a extreme radiation reading. We need to defibrillators to help him regain a steady pulse."
"Sir, we need you to step out of the room."
"No."
"Sir, now! His life and yours, if you stay here, are endangered."
The nurse pushed Bond out of the room and lock the door. Curtains are pulled to block any passerbys from seeing inside the room.
"Ok, we're ready... clear!"
"Again, clear!"
"Again, clear!"
"AHHH!!"
Levi woke up to the sight of a doctor passed out on the floor with electric currents going around his body.
He looked down at his hands and saw the same thing happening to him, yet he felt no pain and was still conscious.
"What the hack?"
He ran out of the room and found Bond waiting patiently for him to get out.
"Turner, you're ok."
"Not really. Look"
As Levi said that he shot out electric currents from his hands at the tv screen across the room.
"Woah, how did... how the heck did this happen?"
"I don't know. I mean I fell into a radiation drainage pipe but I was fine the next day."
"Maybe something they did to you in there activated them or something."
"Maybe. Ah, there's a man in there and I'm not sure if he is still alive. I kinda shocked him when I woke up."
"I'll have the nurse look at him. We need to get you back to headquarters."
Recently I added the 1:64 scale British Red Cross Land Rover model to my collection. I’ve been keen to lay my hands on it since I heard the model had been commissioned, as I first volunteered with BRC as an event First Aider at 15 years old. I decided to do a photoshoot with this new addition, and chose to use the Belshotmuir Tri-Emergency Service Station diorama, utilising the Kingsway Models kit “Gainsborough Fire Station 1:76 scale”. The photoshoot takes place during an open day.
On show are:
Scottish Fire & Rescue Service - Crew present equipment next to Pump Ladder appliance, Aerial Rescue Pump and Officers car.
Scottish Ambulance Service in attendance put on a demonstration of dealing with an unconscious casualty. SAS are here with a 4x4 Paramedic Response Unit (PRU), a non-emergency Patient Transport Service ambulance and Care Assistant, and an Accident & Emergency Mercedes Benz Sprinter box body ambulance.
Tayside Police are represented by two Eastern Division (Angus) resources, local beat/response car Echo Mike 1-1 (Eastern Mobile, section 1 beat 1) and Roads Policing Unit (RPU) car Echo Tango 63 (Eastern Traffic car 63). Central Division, Dundee City, have sent the City Centre cell van callsign Charlie Mike 1-1 (Central Mobile, section 1 beat 1).
British Red Cross - Emergency Response Service - Land Rover (some pictures)
The British Red Cross is a humanitarian organisation with special auxiliary role with standing invitation to provide humanitarian services and aid. The model shown here is a Search & Rescue ambulance and represents the Emergency Response side of BRC. The Red Cross can respond to individuals in need, such as through their Fire & Emergency Support Service who attend the locus of home fires for example to provide shelter, toiletries, food and assistance with temporary accommodation and more. BRC also respond to regional and National emergencies, providing ambulance vehicles and crews and, as shown by this 1:64 scale model, a fleet of all terrain vehicles equipped with defibrillators.
Prof Frank Pantridge, inventor of portable defibrillator, born 100 years ago today in Hillsborough, Co. Down. Statue outside Lisburn Civic Centre
One of South central ambulance service's ageing iveco daily's seen at a regular standby point in Aylesbury town center. This vehicle is most likely based out of Stoke Mandiville hospital. This ambulance is also fitted with Lucas 7 defibrillator.
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There I was two days ago after a biopsy of the heart muscle. The result is not known yet. They wanted to customize a safety vest with a defibrillator. I refused that. The question will be in a few years, if I can accept artificial implants. We are all part of a life-prolonging machine called civilization. Life expectancy would otherwise be much lower.
HMS BEAGLE A319
Class……………………………Bulldog-class Survey vessel
Builder………………………..Brooke Marine Ltd., Lowestoft
Yard number……………….359
Laid down..………………….
Launched….…………………7 September 1967
Completed.………………….9 May 1968
Propulsion.…………………..2 shafts driven by 4-Lister Blackstone : 4stroke single acting 4 cylinder oil engines.
Speed..…………………………18 knots
Range…………………………..4000 nm at 12 knots
History
•7 February 2002: Paid off by the Royal Navy
•March 2002: Sold to P.Bull and renamed TITAN. She was refitted into a - deck luxury yacht and renamed MY Titan. She is able to 22 guests and accommodate 20 crew.
•2005: Sold to Vortex Marine Ltd, name unchanged (TITAN)
•2007: Sold to Titan Srl, name unchanged (TITAN)
•1 March 2019: Sold to Aqua Expeditions Pte Ltd and renamed AQUA BLU
MV Aqua Blu cruise ship is a premium designed by Cor D Rover BV. The ship was previously named HMS BEAGLE and drydock reconstructed and refurbished in 2018-2019 before entering service for shipowner Aqua Expeditions. Aqua Blu's fleet mates are riverboats Aqua Nera, Aqua Mekong Aria Amazon. Schedule for inauguration in November this is the first coastal cruise ship of Aqua Expeditions as well as the first long-range expedition-class cruise yacht permanently based in Southeast Asia's East Indonesian Archipelago. Currently, top-luxury ship owned by Aqua Expeditions. This passenger vessel the highest classifications-by ISM, RINA Group and SOLAS. Ship feature Quantum Zero Speed stabilizers providing while in motion or at rest. The Vessel also two Zodiac 4. 2m RIB boats, modern radio comms, satellite phone, separate battery pack, flare / signals, automatic defibrillator. Each cabin is fit smoke detectors and fire extinguishers.
•S Dec 2019: Sold to Project Wallace Indonesia PT, name unchanged (AQUA BLU)
•2022: Still in Service (Equasis : 22 Feb 2022)
HMS BEAGLE at Plymouth on 1 August 1989
Prof Frank Pantridge, inventor of portable defibrillator, born 100 years ago today in Hillsborough, Co. Down. Statue outside Lisburn Civic Centre
Aston Martin DBS V12 (2007-12) Engine 5935cc V12 48v
Registration Number SGM 1 (Cherished number, originally allocated for issue from Motherwell)
ASTON MARTIN ALBUM
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Unveiled at the 2007 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance on 16 August 2007, and built as high performance GT sports car version of the DB9. Powered by the same 6.0 litre V12 engine and producing 510bhp.
The DBS is fitted with Pirelli P-Zero tyres developed especially for the car, along with lightweight, aluminium 20" wheels.
To keep the weight as low as possible, Aston Martin has made extensive use of carbon fibre throughout the whole car. The bonnet, the boot, the front wings and the door opening surrounds are all made of carbon fibre. The carpets are also made by special thin layers made from carbon fibre. The roof and the doors are made of aluminium. The result is a 30 kg (66 lb) weight reduction from a regular DB9. The car is also fitted with a carbon fibre splitter at the front wings to increase handling and a carbon fibre rear diffuser to increase high-speed stability.
The brake discs are carbon ceramic, which shaves a significant 12.5 kg (28 lb) from the unsprung weight. At the front, there are 398 mm (15.7 in) ventilated and drilled brakes with 6-piston alloy monobloc callipers. At the back, there are 360 mm (14.2 in) ventilated and drilled brakes with 4-piston alloy monobloc callipers.
JAMES BOND
The DBS was first seen in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale, the first film in which Bond was played by Daniel Craig, The only in-car gadget featured in the film is a glovebox/safe that contains a spare pistol, silencer, and a medical kit with a defibrillator in its compartment. Bond uses the car to go to Casino Royale in Montenegro so he can find Le Chiffre. The car is later destroyed when James Bond swerves to avoid hitting Vesper, who had been used as a bait by Le Chiffre to lure Bond after being kidnapped. The cars used in the production were actually prototypes, based on DB9 test vehicles, as the film was produced well before the DBS entered production. The DBS returned for the pre-credits car chase around Lake Garda in the 2008 Bond film Quantum of Solace.
Diolch am 84,111,047 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mae pob un yn 90cael ei werthfawrogi'n fawr.
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Shot 01.08-2021 Exiting Silverstone Festival 01.08.2021 Ref 149-044
Sitting in my kitchen with the sun coming through the window making lovely shadows even if it's only for the shortest amount of time is enough to bring a smile to my face. I love that I can see our restored telephone box which houses a defibrillator and book exchange, it has a light so that at night the box is still clearly seen from a reasonable distance away.
It was a rainy day, so we went to Radstock in Somerset, to visit the Somerset Coalfield Life at Radstock Museum (North Somerset Coalfield Heritage).
We were a bit early before opening time, so we had a bit of a rainy walk down a path, before heading back to the museum.
Radstock memorial garden
On the line of the former Somerset & Dorset Railway.
red phone box now a Defibrillator
These Basic Life Support units are deployed throughout the Tri-County region and are based out of area hospitals.
Staffed with Emergency Medical Technicians EMT-D (Defibrillator) they can handle calls which don't require Advanced Life Support and help reduce demands on resources and equipment.
Each EMT is defibrillator trained and each unit is AED equipped.
They're already a big hit, and helping to alleviate the overwhelming amount of calls for service handled by ALS units.
I know a bunch of EMT's who are on a lot of paramedics Christmas lists.
2013 International Durastar Ambulance
Regional Fire Control District
Basic Life Support Unit
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Doing these things is fun for me.
Working time - one day + one ink drying
Material - adapted several pieces: typewriter, xerox machine, fan parts, buttons regulation of a defibrillator, etc.
The sale.
A classic on display.
Yesterday, Thursday 7 August 2014, saw record crowds visiting the annual Emergency Services Open Day, which took place at The Trafford Centre.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP), Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS), North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) and a range of other emergency response, community safety and support services put on a range of displays and demonstrations to entertain and inform the public.
The event is believed to been one of the largest free events of its kind in the country.
Visitors to the event were able to see a wide range of vehicles, appliances and equipment from the many agencies that work closely together to make Greater Manchester and the North West a safer place.
The live displays included a simulated road traffic collision, a kitchen safety display and many more.
Drivers, young and old, whether on two wheels or four, were able to pick up tips to stay safe on the roads.
The mountain rescue zone saw a wide range of equipment and vehicles used to support the emergency services and communities in the rural areas of the county.
The vintage zone allowed visitors to come face to face with the past with some classic fire engines and police car.
The army was also on hand with a climbing wall and other practical challenges.
Visitors also had the chance to pick up vital lifesaving skills including how to deal with heart attacks using cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automatic external defibrillator (AED) devices taught by NWAS paramedics and supported by The British Heart Foundation and a number of supporting groups offering Basic Life Support instruction.
There was even a flypast by one of the helicopters of the National Police Air Service.
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You should call 101, the new national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
At Arborfield, the red phone box is just that, a box. No longer housing a telephone, what next? A library like Riseley, a defibrillator like Sonning?
Adam records the vibrant flowers at Lullington in Derbyshire.
Note the red phone box. Its got no phone, but a defibrillator.
Chennai Central, erstwhile Madras Central, is the main railway terminus in the city of Chennai, formerly known as Madras. It lies adjacent to the current headquarters of the Southern Railway, as well as the Ripon Building, and is one of the most important railway hubs in South India. The other major railway hub stations in the city are Chennai Egmore and Tambaram. Chennai Central connects the city to New Delhi and prominent cities of India such as Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Patna, Varanasi, Thiruvananthapuram, Visakhapatnam and so forth. The 142-year-old building of the railway station, one of the most prominent landmarks of Chennai, was designed by architect George Harding. Along with Chennai Beach, the station is also a main hub for the Chennai Suburban Railway system.
Chennai Central serves as a symbolic landmark for people in South India as this station served as the main gateway for all people who travelled to South India during the British times. About 350,000 passengers use the terminus every day. Chennai Egmore, Coimbatore Junction and Chennai Central are the most profitable stations of Southern Railways. As per a report published in 2007 by the Indian Railways, Chennai Central and Secunderabad were awarded 183 points out of a maximum of 300 for cleanliness, the highest in the country.
HISTORY
Marking the initial days of the railways in the Indian Subcontinent, the Madras Railway Company began to network South India in 1856. The first station was built at Royapuram, which remained the main station at that time. Expansion of the Madras Railways network, particularly the completion of the Madras–Vyasarpadi line, called for a second station in Madras, resulting in Madras Central coming into being.
Madras Central was built in 1873 at Parktown as a second terminus to decongest the Royapuram harbour station, which was being utilised for port movements. The station was built on the open grounds that had once been called John Pereira's Gardens, belonging to Joao Pereira de Faria (John Pereira), a Portuguese merchant in the port town of Negapatam (present day Nagapattinam) who settled in Madras in 1660. The garden had a house used by Pereira for rest and recreation. Having fallen into disuse, the garden had become a gaming den, with cock-fighting being the favourite sport at that time, until when the Trinity Chapel was built nearby in 1831 and the Railways moved into the area in the 1870s.
In 1907, Madras Central was made the Madras Railway Company's main station. The station gained prominence after the beach line was extended further south in the same year, and Royapuram was no longer a terminus for Madras. All trains were then terminated at Madras Central instead. The Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Company was formed in 1908 and took over the Central station from the Madras Railway Company. The station's position was further strengthened after the construction of the headquarters of the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway (erstwhile Madras Railway and now known as the Southern Railway) adjacent to it in 1922.
Madras Central was part of South Indian Railway Company during the British rule. The company was established in 1890 and was initially headquartered in Trichinopoly. Egmore Railway Station was made its northern terminus in 1908. It was then shifted to Madurai and later to Madras Central. With the opening of the Egmore Railway Station, plans were first made of linking Madras Central and Egmore, which was later dropped. The company operated a suburban electric train service for Madras city from May 1931 onwards in the Madras Beach-Tambaram section. In 1959, additional changes were made to the station. Electrification of the lines at the station began in 1979, when the section up to Gummidipoondi was electrified on 13 April 1979. The lines up to Tiruvallur were electrified on 29 November 1979 while the tracks along Platforms 1 to 7 were electrified on 29 December 1979.
EXPANSION
In the 1980s, the Southern Railway required land for expansion of the terminus and was looking for the erstwhile Moore Market building located next to the terminus. In 1985, when the market building caught fire and was destroyed, the structure was transferred to the Railways by the government, and the Railways built a 13-storied complex to house the suburban terminus and railway reservation counter. The land in front of the building was made into a car park. Following the renaming of the city of Madras in 1996, the station became known as Chennai Central. Due to increasing passenger movement, the main building was extended in 1998 with the addition of a new building on the western side with a similar architecture to the original. After this duplication of the main building, the station had 12 platforms. Capacity at the station was further augmented when the multi-storeyed Moore Market Complex was made a dedicated terminus with three separate platforms for the Chennai Suburban Railway system. In the 1990s, when the IRCTC was formed, modular stalls came up and food plazas were set up.
In 2005, the buildings were painted a light brown colour, but concurring with the views of a campaign by the citizens of Chennai and also to retain the old nostalgic charm, they were repainted in their original brick-red color. The station is the first in India to be placed on the cyber map.
LOCATION
The terminus lies on the southern arm of the diamond junction of Chennai's railway network, where all the lines of the Chennai Suburban Railway meet. The terminus is located about 19 km from Chennai International Airport. The main entrance is located at Park Town at the intersection of the arterial Poonamallee High Road, Pallavan Salai, and Wall Tax Road between the People's Park and the Southern Railways headquarters. The station premises is located on either side of the Buckingham Canal, formerly known as Cochrane's Canal, which separates the main station and the suburban terminus. Wall Tax Road runs alongside the station on the eastern side. There are two other entrances on the eastern and western sides of the complex. The eastern entrance on Wall Tax Road leads to platform no. 1, and the western entrance lies at the entrance of the suburban terminus. The station is connected with the Park railway station and the Government General Hospital, both located across the road, by means of subways. During the building of the Chennai Metro the connection from Chennai Park to Chennai Central is by means of a steel footbridge.
LAYOUT
ARCHITECTURE
Built in the Gothic Revival style, the original station was designed by George Harding and consisted of four platforms and a capacity to accommodate 12-coach trains. It took another five years for the work to be completed, when the station was modified further by Robert Fellowes Chisholm with the addition of the central clock tower, Travancore 'caps' on the main towers, and other changes. The redesign was eventually completed in 1900. The main building, a combination of Gothic and Romanesque styles has been declared as a heritage building. The clock tower with the flagstaff, the tallest of the towers of the main building, has four faces and reaches a height of 136 ft. It is set to chime every quarter of an hour and every hour.
PLATFORMS
Chennai Central station is a terminal station with bay platforms. The average length of railway tracks in the station is 600 metres. The entire complex has 15 platforms to handle long-distance trains with 3 platforms exclusively for suburban trains. The total length of the station is about 950 m. The main building has 12 platforms and handles long distance trains. The complex for suburban trains is popularly known as the Moore Market complex. There is a platform 2A between platforms 2 and 3; it is used to handle relatively short length trains like the Chennai Rajdhani Express, Vijayawada Jan Shatabdi Express, Bangalore/Mysore Shatabdi Express and the Gudur Passenger. The 13-storied annex building, the Moore Market Complex Building, has 3 platforms and handles north- and westbound suburban trains.
Chennai Central used to have trains with special liveries until the early 1990s. The Brindavan Express used to have green livery with a yellow stripe running above and below the windows; Nilgiri Express (popularly known as the Blue Mountain Express) had blue livery. All trains now have the standard blue livery (denoting air-braked bogies). Notable exceptions include the Rajadhani, Shatabdi and the Jan Shatabdi expresses. The Saptagiri/Tirupati Express has a vivid green/cream livery combination with a matching WAM4 6PE loco from Arakkonam (AJJ) electric loco shed.
The Chennai Central Station, unlike many other major railway stations in India, is a terminus. The next station to Chennai Central, Basin Bridge Junction, is the railway junction where three different lines meet.
As of 2015, all platforms except 2A platforms, in the station were able to accommodate trains with 24 coaches. Platform 2A is the shortest of all platforms in the station and can accommodate trains with 18 coaches. Chennai Central is the only station that has a platform numbered 2A. Though it was built actually for delivering water and goods to the station staff, the Shatabdi Express now starts from here.
BRIDGE
Bridge No.7 across the Buckingham Canal connects the terminus with the railway yards and stations to the north. The bridge, measuring 33.02 m in length and carrying six tracks, acts as the gateway to the terminus. The bridge was originally resting on cast iron screw pile. Following the 2001 accident of Mangalore–Chennai express killing 52 passengers, Southern Railway started replacing all bridges resting on screw piles, and the bridge was replaced with a new RCC box bridge resting on well foundation in September 2010, with ancillary works getting completed by March 2011.
TRAFFIC
On an average, 19 trains are operated daily from the station of which 12 have 24 coaches. About 200 trains arrive and depart at the station daily, including about 46 pairs of mail/express trains, in addition to 257 suburban trains handled by the three platforms at the station's suburban terminus. About 400,000 passengers use the terminus every day, in addition to 20,000 visitors accompanying them to see-off or receive them, generating a revenue of ₹6,590,214,293 (US$98 million) as of 2012–2013, making it the top revenue-generating station of the Southern Railway. There is likely to be around 180,000 passengers in the station at a given point.
The terminus also faces traffic problems. Often, express trains and EMU services that arrive at the Basin Bridge Junction in time have to be detained for non-availability of platforms at Chennai Central. Blocking of lines is a daily challenge owing to the traffic.
SERVICES
Chennai Central is a major transit point for shipment of inland and sea fish in South India through trains. The terminus handles fish procured from Kasimedu which is sent to Kerala and sea fish from the West Coast which is brought to Chennai and ferried to West Bengal. As of 2012, on an average, the terminus handles transportation of 200 boxes of fish, each comprising 50 kilograms to 70 kilograms of consumable fish. The station also handles 5,000 postal bags daily.
FACILITIES
The station has bookshops, restaurants, accommodation facilities, Internet browsing centres, and a shopping mall. The main waiting hall can hold up to 1,000 people. In spite of being the most important terminus of the region, the station lacks several facilities such as drinking water facility, a medical unit and coach position display boards. The main concourses too have long exhausted their capacity to handle the increasing passenger crowd. There are passenger operated enquiry terminals and seven touch-screen PNR status machines in the station. The station has three split-flap timing boards, electronic display boards and Plasma TVs that mention train timings and platform number. A passenger information center in the station has been upgraded with "Spot your Train" live train display facility, information kiosks and passenger digital assistance booths. The terminus, however, has only 10 toilets, which is inadequate to its 350,000 passengers.
As of 2008, there were 607 licensed railway porters in Chennai Central. Four-seater battery operated vehicles are available to cater to the needs of the elderly and the physically impaired.
On 26 September 2014, Chennai Central station became the first in the country to get free Wi-Fi connectivity. The facility is being provided by RailTel, a public sector telecom infrastructure provider.
EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE
In November 2012, a public interest writ petition was filed in the Madras High Court citing the lack of a full-fledged emergency medical care centre at the terminus. Further to this, the Southern Railway invited expression of interest from several hospitals in the city to establish a medical care centre.
On 15 April 2013, a new emergency medical care centre was opened. The centre has three beds, two doctors on duty and another on standby, four nurses, a paramedic team, and a round-the-clock ambulance. The centre is equipped with oxygen cylinders, an ECG, a defibrillator and resuscitation equipment. The terminus is the first railway station in the country to have facilities of an ambulance.
PARKING
The station has parking facilities for more than 1,000 two-wheelers. About 1,000 cars are parked in the standard car park every day. Since March 2008, a premium car park facility for 80 cars in addition to its regular car park is functioning at the station. The cement-concrete-paved premium parking is located between the Moore Market reservation complex and the station's main building. However, the station still faces parking problems. About 3,000 taxis arrives at the station every day.
MAINTENANCE
Chennai Central suffers from lack of enough maintenance crew, which lead to dirty and unhygienic trains. According to the Railway sources, as of July 2012, Chennai Central was 180 short of the sanctioned 405 maintenance employees, including mechanical, electrical and general maintenance, required for cleaning the interiors and exteriors of trains and undertaking routine mechanical and electrical maintenance of trains. Contracts for cleaning the station has been awarded for a period of three years from 2010 for a value of ₹ 43.1 million. In 2007, the number of dustbins in the station was 28.50 per 10,000 passengers.
On average, about 51 train units depart and arrive at the station from different parts of the country everyday. Of the 102 trains, a 12 are sent during the day and another 7 at night to the Basin Bridge Train Care Centre for primary maintenance, which involves complete exterior and interior cleaning and total mechanical and electrical overhaul. The rest of the trains go through secondary maintenance or 'other-end attention' at the depot or 'turn back train attention' at Chennai Central itself. Secondary maintenance includes filling water, while the third is the 'other-end attention', in which the train, especially the toilets, is cleaned. The fourth category of trains, such as Sapthagiri Express and Pallavan Express, are turn-back trains, which arrive and leave in a short time from Chennai Central after toilet-cleaning and water-filling is done right at the terminus platform.
The station has been divided into two zones for mechanised cleaning contracts. As of 2008, Chennai Central had about 30 sanitary workers employed on a contractual basis in Zone I (platforms 1 to 6). Zone II (platforms 7 to 12) was cleaned by close to 40 railway employees.
YARDS AND SHEDS
TRAIN CARE CENTRE
A broad-gauge coach maintenance depot, called the Basin Bridge Train Care Centre, is located at the northern side of the terminus, where trains of 18 to 24 coaches are checked, cleaned and readied for its next trip after they return from round trips. It is the largest train care centre under the Southern Railway where 30 pairs of trains are inspected every day. The yard has 14 pit lines, each 3-ft deep, to inspect undercarriage of trains, but only two lines can accommodate 24-coach trains. The rest are designed to park 18-coach trains. Five to six people are allotted to each train. As of 2012, the centre has 3,500 employees, a shortage of about 400.
Water accumulated in pit lines are let out into the Buckingham Canal by means of drainage channels. However, as the yard is located in a basin area, water does not drain quickly enough. In addition, the centre faces pests and other hygiene issues too.
ELECTRIC TRIP SHED
The terminus has an electric locomotive trip shed, the Basin Bridge electric loco trip shed, located north of the train care centre. It is one of the five loco trip sheds of the Southern Railway. To lessen load on the shed, an additional electric trip shed has been created at Tondiarpet, which also serves as a crew change point for freights.
GOODS SHED
The terminus has a goods shed attached to it at Salt Cotaurs.
RENOVATION
Chennai Central Station gets renovation after 2010, is undertaken by the building division of the Southern Railway with the technical assistance provided by the Chennai circle of Archaeological Survey of India. the work is carried out to ensure the original character of the building is maintained.The Station building has maroon colour since its inception in 1873.
CONNECTIVITY
Chennai Central railway station is a hub for suburban trains. Suburban lines originating from Chennai Central include West North Line, North Line, and West Line. Chennai Park suburban station is in proximity to the station, thus facilitating connectivity to Tambaram/Chengalpet/Tirumalpur routes through South Line and South West Line. Chennai Central can be directly reached from all suburban stations and MRTS stations in and around Chennai (except Washermanpet and Royapuram) either through its own MMC Complex for suburban trains or through the nearby Park suburban station or the Park Town MRTS station. Currently, there is only one direct suburban train that plies from Chennai Beach Junction to Chennai Central via Washermanpet and Royapuram, and hence there is no frequent direct connectivity for these two stations to Chennai Central. The Chennai Park Town MRTS station is close to Chennai Central station.
Chennai Central is connected to the Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus and other parts of the city by buses operated by the Metropolitan Transport Corporation, by means of separate bus lanes near the main entrance, close to the concourse. There are prepaid auto and taxi stands at the station premises. However, only 30 autorickshaws are presently attached to the prepaid counter parking, as Chennai Metro Rail has acquired its parking area for station construction.
The terminus is connected to the Park railway station and the Government General Hospital by two subways on either side. The two subways, which are one of the first in the city, are used by thousands of commuters day round. Nevertheless, jaywalking prevails as a substantial number of commuters prefer crossing the road, at times resulting in accidents.
The terminus is connected with the Egmore station, the other most important terminus of the city, by a circuitous and congested route covering a distance of 11.2 km via Chennai Beach. There was initially a proposal to connect the two termini by means of an elevated section with double-line broad-gauge electrified track with two elevated platforms at Chennai Central, at the cost of ₹ 930 million, which would cut the distance to 2.5 km. The project, approved on 8 April 2003 and initially aimed to be completed by 2005, was later scrapped owing to the expected rate of return on the project being only 1 to 2 percent, poor soil conditions on the Poonamallee High Road, and other issues.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
The portion of the Buckingham canal running near the terminus and beneath Pallavan Salai is covered for 250 m, which makes the task of maintaining the canal difficult. After being desilted in 1998, the covered stretch of the canal near the terminus was cleaned in September 2012. Garbage is dumped into the canal via the openings near the Chennai Central premises. An estimated 6,000 cubic meters of silt was removed from the 2-m-deep canal.
INCIDENTS
On 14 August 2006, a major fire broke out in Chennai Central station, completely destroying a bookshop.
On 29 April 2009, a suburban EMU train from Chennai Central Suburban terminal was hijacked by an unidentified man, who rammed it into a stationary goods train at the Vyasarpadi Jeeva railway station, 4 kilometres northwest of Chennai Central. 4 passengers were killed and 11 were injured. The train which was scheduled to depart at 5:15 am started at 4:50 am instead. The train was moving with a speed of 92 km per hour with 35 passengers on board at the time of collision.
On 6 August 2012, a man hailing from Nepal perched atop the clock tower of the station's main building, creating a commotion. He was later safely persuaded back down the tower by the City Police and Southern Railway officials.
On 1 May 2014, the station witnessed two low-intensity blasts in two coaches S4 and S5 of the stationary Bangalore-Guwahati express, killing one female passenger and injuring at least fourteen.
SECURITY
In a first of its kind for the railways, a bomb disposal squad of the railway protection force, equipped with state-of-the-art gadgets imported at a cost of over ₹ 2.5 million, was inaugurated at Chennai Central on May 2002. The squad functions round the clock and its personnel were trained at the National Security Guard Training Centre at Maneswar and the Tamil Nadu Commando School. In 2009, following the train accident at the Vyasarpadi Jeeva station, surveillance cameras were installed at the suburban terminus platforms. A security boundary wall 200 m long was erected along platform 14 to check unauthorised persons entering the station. Two security booths were planned, one each at the main terminus and the suburban terminus. A government railway police (GRP) station is located on the first floor at the western end, headed by a DSP and two inspectors.[86]
In 2009, 39 CCTV cameras were installed in the premises along with a control room. In 2012, about 120 CCTV cameras are to be installed in Chennai Central. In April 2012, the GRP and the Railway Protection Force (RPF) together launched a helpline known as Kaakum karangal (literally meaning 'Protecting hands'). This involved dividing the terminus into six sectors and deploying 24 police personnel for security.
On 15 November 2012, Integrated Security System (ISS) was launched at the station, which comprises sub-systems such as CCTV surveillance system with 54 IP-based cameras, under-vehicle scanning system (UVSS) for entries and exits, and personal and X-ray baggage screening system. In addition, explosive detection and disposal squad have been deployed. The sub-system will be integrated by networking and monitored at the centralised control rooms. Existing CCTV network of suburban platforms has also been integrated to this system.
FUTURE
In 2004, a second terminal was planned near the Moore Market Complex, with six platforms to be constructed in the first phase of the project and four platforms each in the second and third phases. For additional infrastructure, the goods yard at Salt Cotaurs will be closed to provide more pit line and stabling line facilities for the new terminal.
In 2007, the Railway Board declared a plan to develop the terminus into a world-class one at a cost of ₹200 million (US$3.0 million), along with two other stations (Thiruvananthapuram Central and Mangalore Central), and a high-level committee was formed in 2009 to expedite the project at a total cost of ₹1,000 million (US$15 million). The plan included creating multi-level platforms where express and suburban trains could arrive and depart from the same complex. However, the project is yet to begin.
An underground metro station of the ongoing Chennai Metro Rail project is under construction at the Chennai Central station. It is one of the two metro stations where Corridor I (Airport–Washermanpet) of the project will intersect with Corridor II (Chennai Central–St. Thomas Mount via Egmore, CMBT). The metro station, being constructed at a depth of 25 metres, will be the largest of all metro stations in the city with an area of over 70,000 square metres. The station will act as a transit point for passengers from the Central, Park Town, and Park railway stations. It is estimated that more than 100,000 commuters will utilise the station daily.
In June 2012, the first skywalk in Chennai connecting Chennai Central, Park Railway Station and Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital was planned at a cost of ₹200 million (US$3.0 million). It will be 1 kilometre long, linking the station with nine points, including Evening Bazaar, Government Medical College and Ripon Buildings on Poonamallee High Road.
In February 2013, as part of a national initiative to eliminate ballast tracks at major stations, washable aprons - ballastless tracks or tracks on a concrete bed - were installed along the entire length of tracks of platforms 3, 4 and 5 at the terminus. Washable aprons that are already present for a few metres in some of the platforms at the terminus will be extended, viz. 30 metres on platform 3, 200 metres on platform 4, and 50 metres on platform 5, while new ones will be built on platforms with ballast tracks.
IN POPULAR CULTURE
Chennai Central railway station is one of the most prominent landmarks in the city that is often featured in movies and other pop culture in the region. The station has been used in numerous Indian novels and film and television productions over the years. Many films and television programs have been filmed at the station, including:
The station has been poetized by Vijay Nambisan in his 1988 award-winning poem 'Madras Central' published in 1989. The poem is regarded as a modern classic.
In 2009, the Department of Posts featured Chennai Central in a postal stamp.
WIKIPEDIA
A long way down
Attack of the MegaRamp
The nine-story behemoth that scares the bejeezus out of the world's best skateboarders.
By Bret Anthony Johnston
Posted Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, at 4:22 AM PT
In 20 years of skateboarding, I've never had to ride an elevator to the top of a ramp. I've also never seen a weather vane spinning on the deck to help skaters make adjustments depending on the wind. Birds land on the uppermost railing, then fly off. When a blimp floats by, I can make out that the pilot is wearing a Lakers cap. Skaters drop in from the ramp's precipice and then disappear like they've fallen down an elevator shaft. Medics on the ground stand by with gurneys and defibrillators.
Across the street, on the side of a hotel in downtown Los Angeles, looms a mural of Danny Way, the legendary skater who brought this behemoth ramp to the X Games. The standard ramp that's been used in skating contests for years is the 12-foot, U-shaped halfpipe. Way's invention, the "MegaRamp," is nearly nine stories tall and longer than a football field; it looks less like a halfpipe than a sculptor's rendering of a tsunami. Last month, Way took a similar structure to China and jumped the Great Wall.
The MegaRamp combines a bunch of skateboarding's previous paradigms: the launch ramps, gaps, and banked landing pads of street skating and the quarterpipe and roll-ins of vert skating. On the MegaRamp used at the X Games, skaters choose between two starting points: an intermediate drop-in that's 65 feet off the ground and a suicidal-looking, 80-foot drop-in. The first route delivers you over a 60-foot horizontal gap; the second sends you over a 70-foot breach. Once across the gap, you land on a banked ramp and speed toward a 27-foot tall quarterpipe that pitches you as high as 25 feet over the deck.
In the three years since Way conjured the MegaRamp, it has already raised skateboarding's skill and cojones bar to ridiculous heights. (To watch a series of tricks that defy belief, check out these videos from Way's Web site.) The fear factor is so severe that of the 11 skaters invited to compete in the X Games Big Air Competition, only three started from the higher roll-in. (Tony Hawk, who wasn't competing, stopped by to try the MegaRamp for the first time and would attempt only the 60-foot gap. Danny Way, who did take off from the highest point, won the competition.) When someone simply climbs to the upper deck and peers down, the crowd here goes wild as if a skater even contemplating the bigger jump is more spectacular than anything they've ever seen at the X Games.
And there's the rub: Compared to the Big Air competition, the usual 360s and rail grinds look, well, a lot less extreme. The video-gamelike hang-time the skaters get when launching off the MegaRamp allows them to perform 720s over huge gaps and McTwists almost 50 feet off the ground. Sean Penn showed up to watch last Saturday's Big Air practice session. The only celebrity I saw at the skateboard vert finals, unless my eyes were deceiving me, was Pauly Shore.
Many skateboard purists distrust the X Games and the MegaRamp, deeming both bourgeois photo-ops that sanitize and gentrify the sport. But despite the extraordinary marketability of Big Air, there's very little danger of it rendering the rest of skateboarding obsolete. For one, there aren't any MegaRamps in municipal skateparks. Aside from the one built for the X Games, Danny Way's personal MegaRamp is the only one in existence. To practice on the big ramp, skaters travel to California from as far away as Australia, Brazil, and Germany. This logistical constraint, along with the fact that only a handful of pros have the requisite skill and courage to ride the damned thing, could eventually work against skateboarding's Big Air phase, turn it into an evolutionary cul-de-sac.
But even if the MegaRamp does grow to overshadow the rest of the sport, kids won't stop doing ollies in their driveways. The various forms of skateboarding have always fed one another: Street skaters borrowed the grinds and slides from pool riders, and vert skaters adopted the technical kick flips and shove-its from street skating. Big Air doesn't exist in a vacuum either. Perhaps this weekend's most impressive accomplishment—Bob Burnquist's "switch" (essentially backward) tricks on the MegaRamp—was the byproduct of a lifetime training on vert ramps and street courses.
It would be great if the crowds here gasped at the obscure technical tricks that most skaters pride themselves on perfecting. I don't think, though, that skateboarding has to be inscrutable. As someone who has been arrested, beaten, and fined for skateboarding, I take not a little sanctimonious satisfaction in the sport's current mainstream success. Skateboarding will naturally fall out of commercial and broadcast favor—the sport dies and resurrects itself every 10 years or so—but every time the MegaRamp shows up on television, a new skater gets his wings. Some of the next generation will stick to the painted curbs, some will swear off everything except drained backyard pools, and some will stand atop the largest skateboarding structure ever built and wave to the blimp pilots. And, eventually, a few of them will soar over the blimp.
Bret Anthony Johnston is a writer and skateboarder in Southern California. He is the author of Corpus Christi: Stories.
On a recent trip to the library to get a new card, I took some pictures, of course. Discovering my reflection was sort of a surprise, when I got home
ANSH scavenger20 “peek a boo”
... (there's a reflection of me)
Greater Manchester Police’s (GMP’s) traffic cars have been fitted with defibrillators as part of closer working between police and the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS).
The move came into effect on 10 April, and allows officers to provide potentially life-saving care at the scene of emergencies if they arrive before paramedics.
More than 170 officers in GMP’s Traffic Network Section have been trained to use the devices, 36 of which have been distributed among road policing units, teams who use automatic number plate recognition cameras, serious collision investigators and those responsible for escorting high-risk prisoners.
Sergeant Catherine Hynes of GMP’s Traffic Network Section said: “We have already had some success with this tactic, as on the first day that defibrillators were taken out in cars, two officers used a device on a man who had taken an overdose at his home in Cheadle.
“Although they did not need to administer a shock, they placed pads on his chest to assess him, and the man was treated by paramedics as soon as they arrived at the scene. He was later taken to hospital where he made a full recovery, and we hope that this new way of working with the ambulance service will help to save more lives in future.”
NWAS Community Resuscitation Manager for Greater Manchester, David McNally, said: "We are delighted that GMP is on board with this initiative which will ultimately equip traffic officers to potentially save lives.
"In the event of a person suffering cardiac arrest, quick action must be taken to give the patient the best chance of survival.
"It is proven that in every minute that passes without intervention, the chances of survival decrease by up to 14 per cent. Effective CPR and defibrillation ensures the patient has the best chance of survivaTo find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
You should call 101, the new national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement."
This is the very first portable defibrillator that was ever made, developed by Professor James Francis "Frank" Pantridge in Belfast..Pantridge developed the portable defibrillator in 1965 and installed his first version in a Belfast ambulance. It weighed 70 kg and operated from car batteries, but by 1968 he had designed an instrument weighing only 3 kg, incorporating a miniature capacitor manufactured for NASA. i was lucky to be making a docu/drama in the belfast Royal hospital Cardiology suite and got to see it
Groß-Rettungswagen (G-RTW) der Berufsfeuerwehr Düsseldorf, stationiert an der Feuer- und Rettungswache 5.
Technische Daten:
Mercedes-Benz EvoBus Citaro O 530
Auf- und Ausbau durch die Firma Evolution GmbH
medizinischer Ausbau durch die Firma Heymann GmbH
Automatikgetriebe
Länge 11.950 mm / Breite 2.550 mm / Höhe 3.600 mm
Medizinische Ausstattung:
3 vollwertige Intensiv-Beatmungsplätze ausgestattet mit jeweils
- Tragenoberteil der Firma Stollenwerk Modell 3006
- Beatmungsgerät Weinmann Medumat Standard
- EKG/Defibrillator Corpuls 08/16
- Absaugpumpe Weinmann Accuvac Rescue
- 3 Spritzenpumpe B | Braun Perfusor Compact
Schwerlast-Trage Stryker Modell 6083 MX-Pro
mit einer maximalen Traglast von 385 kg
3 Schaufeltragen
3 Spineboards
3 Vakuummatratzen
Rettungskorsett der Firma Ferno
weiteres medizinisches Verbrauchsmaterial
Stromaggregat Yamaha EF 2400 iS
Einen Teil der medizinischen und technischen Beladung wird im am Fahrzeug angebauten Ski-Koffer mitgeführt und ist somit nur im Stand verfügbar, alles was auch während einer Verlegungsfahrt benötigt werden könnte, wurde jedoch im Fahrzeug verlastet, so dass man problemlos herankommen kann.
Laufbahn:
2013 bis xxxx: BF Düsseldorf FuRW 05
weitere Informationen:
Die Stadt Düsseldorf stellte im Jahr 2013 diesen Groß-Rettungswagen in Dienst und stationierte ihn auf der Feuer- und Rettungswache 5 in der Nähe des Düsseldorfer Flughafen. Das Fahrzeug hat drei vollwertige Intensivbehandlungsplätze mit fest arretierten Tragen der Firma Stollenwerk. Die Tragen der Intensivbehandlungsplätze sind nur unter größeren Schwierigkeiten aus dem Fahrzeug entfernbar, so dass die Patienten immer im Fahrzeug umgelagert werden müssen.
Zusätzlich zu den drei Intensivbehandlungsplätzen besteht noch die Möglichkeit, einen schwergewichtigen Patienten auf einer dafür vorhandenen Schwerlast-Trage zu befördern, die Schwerlasttrage der Firma Stryker wird durch die mittlere Tür des Fahrzeuges über eine dort vorhandene Rampe in das Fahrzeug geschoben und auf dem Fahrzeugboden verkehrssicher arretiert.
Neben dem Transport von intensivpflichtigen oder schwergewichtigen Patienten wird dieses Fahrzeug auch im Düsseldorfer Norden als Aufenthaltsraum für Bewohner eingesetzt, die auf Grund eines aktuellen Einsatzgeschehens nicht in ihren Wohnungen verbleiben können.
Das Fahrzeug wird bei einem Evakuierungsfall mit einem Beamten der Feuer- und Rettungswache 05 an die Einsatzstelle verbracht und dort von ebenfalls hinzugeführtem Personal besetzt. Bei einer Intensivverlegung oder dem Transport eines schwergewichtigen Patienten steigt immer eine RTW-Besatzung und bei Bedarf ein Notarzt hinzu.
If you've yet to see this show... well I don't know why you're looking at this picture, but it's a great comedy/drama about the life and times in a hospital. It's good stuff and uh... you know... it's not E.R. which I respect. I only like E.R. because of Michael Crichton, but I don't watch it ever. Michael Crichton has made better things if you ask me. The only E.R. episodes I'd watch are from the first season, and then only because of George Clooney and Michael Crichton. As for House M.D., I'd watch all episodes of House M.D. If that tells you anything.
A comment on the state of communications today.... hard to think in the latter part of the last century I spent a couple of days of my apprenticeship maintaining these. Now i assume very many of them are now in this state, or are now in the care of surrogate owners using them as libraries museums and greenhouses, oh and don't forget the defibrillator? (Note: I had to look up how to spell that ;))
Command 31 Specifications
● Type: Command / Officer's Vehicle
● Year: 2006
● Chassis make & model: Dodge Ram
● Engine: 5.7 liter hemi gas
● Tank Capacity: N/A
● Pump Capacity: N/A
● Manufacturer: N/A
● Hose:
N/A
Command 31 was purchased used in 2015 and is currently stationed at Deputy Chief Linot's residence, which is located in the west central area of the district just west of Rose Hill. It is equipped with basic life support (BLS) medical equipment including an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
East Sussex Bedford CF LWB Hanlon at Heathfield in 1987. Community involvement event at a local high school. Showing Paramedic equipment, intubation, infusion, medicines, cardiac monitor / defibrillator / 12 lead ECG, Pneupac ventilator, Laredal Aspirator. Vehicle is a Bedford CF 350 Automatic. Beyond the head of the left trolley can be seen the Cardiac Recorders CR26. A very sophisticated machine in the day, it was designed mainly with hospital use in mind so was really heavy and would often shake its components loose whilst in the ambulance. Also note the cut, unsterile ET Tubes - complete No No these days!
Bolton Mountain Rescue vehicles.
Yesterday (22/8/12) Greater Manchester Police, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) and North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) joined forces for the 2012 Emergency Services Open Day.
The event, held at The Trafford Centre, gave the public the opportunity to meet members of the three services, see displays of vehicles and equipment and watch demonstrations of service staff in action.
Despite the occasional shower, the event drew great crowds and was both fun and educational for all. The day also included a display of many classic police and fire vehicles.
Greater Manchester Police’s Mounted Unit proved as popular as ever and the chance to sit in a police car or on a motorcycle was a hit with young visitors. Crime reduction and security advice was also available.
Visitors got to see demonstrations about the dangers of kitchen fires and how GMFRS rescue motorists trapped in vehicles after collisions.
There was also a chance for people to learn new skills, including how to deal with heart attacks using CPR and defibrillator devices taught by NWAS paramedics and supported by The British Heart Foundation.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
You should call 101, the new national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
Infektions- und Schwerlastrettungswagen (I-/S-RTW) der Berufsfeuerwehr Düsseldorf.
Da das Fahrzeug auch bei Infektionstransporten eingesetzt werden kann, verfügt es über ein eigenes Filtersystem für die Abluft sowie über sechs Gebläsefilteranzüge für die Besatzung.
Fahrgestell: MAN TGL 8.220
Aufbau/Ausbau: Fahrtec-Systeme GmbH
Ausstattung u.a.:
Ladebordwand Fa. Bär, Hubkraft 1.000 kg
3 Perfusoren
Absaugpumpe Weinmann Accuvac
Corpuls C3 (Monitor/Defibrillator)
WEINMANN Life-Base III (Sauerstoff)
Sechs Gebläsefilteranzüge mit Zubehör in Kisten
Schwerlastrage von Stryker, für ein Gewicht bis 318 kg ausgelegt
Schwerlasttragetuch
Vakuummatratze
Immobilisationssysteme für Schwerlast-Patienten
Atemschutzmasken mit Filtern
Notfallrucksack
Infektionsschutzanzüge mit Zubehör
und diverse weitere Beladung
Danke an die Besatzung der Feuerwache Hüttenstraße für die freundliche Unterstützung!
A very interesting car I saw at Jacksonville International Airport before departing for NYC. The cars have AED defibrillators inside, which leads me to believe the officers may be dual-certified in EMS and law enforcement duties, but i've never known about this agency until now. The black graphic on the side also resembles a private jet, which was really cool (after I took a couple hours to notice it.)
(Heart to heart: the year of being electrically wired. It's an impulse.)
Blog: sharonfrost.typepad.com/day_books
5.8 x 8.3 in.; watercolor, ink, whatever, on Canson Imagine.
Tim was walking down the street with a friend. I caught up with them and asked him for a photo. Sure, he replied, then he added: Why?
I explained the Project and he immediately gave me a quite cool pose while his friend regretted he didn't dress up that day as he usually does because then, he said, I would have asked him for a photo, too.
Maybe in some contrast to his appearance, Tim was a very kind and cheery guy. More than remarkable given the circumstances in which I met him: He was on his way to a hospital to get x-rayed using some sort of contrast agent. When he had that kind of examination before he went into shock so the doctors needed to treat him with a heart defibrillator to revive him.
Hope all went well, Tim! Thank you for participating in my Project!
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You can find my original set of 100 Strangers here.
The ongoing series of 100 Strangers and Beyond can be seen here.
Find out more about the project at the group page 100 Strangers.
Return visit to Wells in Somerset, to go to The Bishop's Palace.
After the Bishop's Palace, lunch at Ask Italian, then back through the Market Place, with a little rain.
Town Hall
Grade II Listed Building
Description
WELLS
ST5445 MARKET PLACE
662-1/7/165 (South side)
12/11/53 Town Hall
GV II
Town Hall, with magistrates courts and other offices. 1779,
with extension of 1907 and 1932/33. Ashlar stone facade,
rubble stone extension, English garden wall brickwork to rear
wing, hipped Welsh slate roofs, ashlar chimney stacks.
PLAN: entrance hall flanked by Court Room and lesser rooms,
through screen and stair to main Hall at first floor; long
rear wing including cells.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics to centre, 9 bays, with a
2-bay forwards projection of 1907 for the 3 centre bays. In a
classical style. Plinth, rusticated piers and quoins to centre
unit, band course between floors, shallow parapet. All ground
floor originally arcaded with open semicircular arches, now
filled with doors and glazing along line of original facade,
large 12-pane sash windows to first floor.
Central projection to match, but open at ground floor level,
and central bay first floor has french doors opening to large
stone balcony with balustrading, carried on very large
scrolled brackets; at attic level 3 circular windows, in
bolection mould architraves with keystones, pediment over with
thin garlands and city coat of arms. The 3 oculi and the
balcony are work of the 1932 alterations. Matching 2-bay
extension to right. East return of 3 bays has ashlar on ground
floor only, with arcading, 2 bays with paned french windows
and fanlights, and one with fanlight only.
Extension to rear of 1907; 2 storeys and 10 bays, with 7 plain
sash and 3 smaller lights to first floor above 9 barred cell
windows, including a door below window 6, and a further
doorway to the right. This unit with hipped slate roof.
INTERIOR: entrance hall has 2 unfluted Doric columns on
pedestals carrying longitudinal beams and 2 transverse deep
square beams, probably inserted later; to each side, through
paired arches, is a heavily detailed stone staircase with
raked square balusters. Main stair, of C20, is through three
arches, to 8 wide steps, through a further screen wall to the
principal staircase returning towards the front. Main hall has
dado rail, modillion cornice, but this not carried through to
end bay, with proscenium arch having panelled reveals and
soffit. On the W side are 2 fireplaces with bolection mould
surrounds, and four 6-panel doors in raised moulded
architraves, and with panelled linings; at the far (S) end are
two 6-panel doors under sloping heads and with panelled
linings, below three 12-pane sashes (but top sash pivoted).
The ceiling has a central rosette and 4 circular cast-iron
vents. The Court Room has a circular central ventilator;
fittings are late C20.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built by public subscription on the site of
the Canonical House also known as 'The Exchequer', on the
authority of an Act of Parliament dated 1779, this replaced an
earlier structure nearer the centre of the Market Place '...
supported by stone columns, and over it a large room for
transacting the public business of the borough...' which was
by this time in a ruinous state. The last Assize Court was
held here in 1970. A plaque on the front of the Town Hall
records some of the building dates and information.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol:
London: 1958-: 325; Bailey S: Canonical Houses of Wells:
Gloucester: 1982-: 156).
Listing NGR: ST5504845708
Defibrillator - red phone box
Wechsellader (WLF) der Berufsfeuerwehr Düsseldorf, stationiert an der Feuer- und Rettungswache Nord
Technische Daten:
Mercedes-Benz Actros 3341 A tmil
teilmilitarisiertes Chassis
Aufbau durch die Firma Fahrzeugbau Michels GmbH & Co KG
Automatikgetriebe
Singlebereifung, Achsfolge 6x6
Ausstattung:
Wechselaufbau vom Typ VDL S18-590
Laufbahn:
2008 bis 2010: BF Düsseldorf FuRW 10 (Florian Düsseldorf 10/65-02)
bos-fahrzeuge.info/einsatzfahrzeuge/15840/
2010 bis xxxx: BF Düsseldorf FuRW 05 (Florian Düsseldorf 05 WLF26 01)
weitere Informationen:
Das Einsatzfahrzeug wurde im Jahr 2010 an die damals neu eröffnete Feuer- und Rettungswache 05 im Düsseldorfer Norden, in direkter Nachbarschaft des Flughafen, verlegt um dort die Sanitätskomponente bei einem Großschadensfall zu unterstützen. Für diesen Einsatzzweck ist standardmäßig der Abrollbehälter MANV des Land Nordrhein-Westfalen aufgesattelt.
Im Einsatzfall rückt dieser Wechsellader gemeinsam mit dem ebenfalls auf der Feuer- und Rettungswache stationierten G-RTW und GW-San aus.
Einsatzleitfahrzeug (ELW 1) der Berufsfeuerwehr Düsseldorf.
Das Fahrzeug wird für den C-Dienst der Feuer- und Rettungswache 5 genutzt.
Technische Daten:
Fahrgestell: Volkswagen Transporter T5 4motion 2,0 TDI
Motorleistung: 103 kW bei 3.500 1/min (5-Zylinder Diesel)
Hubraum: 1.968 cm³
Getriebe: Doppelkupplungschaltgetriebe
Federung: Luftfederung
Zulässiges Gesamtgewicht: 3.000 kg
Länge: 5.292 mm
Breite: 1.904 mm
Höhe: 2.350 mm
Radstand: 3.400 mm
Ausbau: TDS invents Fahrzeugtechnik
Groß-Rettungswagen (G-RTW) der Berufsfeuerwehr Düsseldorf, stationiert an der Feuer- und Rettungswache 5.
Technische Daten:
Mercedes-Benz EvoBus Citaro O 530
Auf- und Ausbau durch die Firma Evolution GmbH
medizinischer Ausbau durch die Firma Heymann GmbH
Automatikgetriebe
Länge 11.950 mm / Breite 2.550 mm / Höhe 3.600 mm
Medizinische Ausstattung:
3 vollwertige Intensiv-Beatmungsplätze ausgestattet mit jeweils
- Tragenoberteil der Firma Stollenwerk Modell 3006
- Beatmungsgerät Weinmann Medumat Standard
- EKG/Defibrillator Corpuls 08/16
- Absaugpumpe Weinmann Accuvac Rescue
- 3 Spritzenpumpe B | Braun Perfusor Compact
Schwerlast-Trage Stryker Modell 6083 MX-Pro
mit einer maximalen Traglast von 385 kg
3 Schaufeltragen
3 Spineboards
3 Vakuummatratzen
Rettungskorsett der Firma Ferno
weiteres medizinisches Verbrauchsmaterial
Stromaggregat Yamaha EF 2400 iS
Einen Teil der medizinischen und technischen Beladung wird im am Fahrzeug angebauten Ski-Koffer mitgeführt und ist somit nur im Stand verfügbar, alles was auch während einer Verlegungsfahrt benötigt werden könnte, wurde jedoch im Fahrzeug verlastet, so dass man problemlos herankommen kann.
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Die Stadt Düsseldorf stellte im Jahr 2013 diesen Groß-Rettungswagen in Dienst und stationierte ihn auf der Feuer- und Rettungswache 5 in der Nähe des Düsseldorfer Flughafen. Das Fahrzeug hat drei vollwertige Intensivbehandlungsplätze mit fest arretierten Tragen der Firma Stollenwerk. Die Tragen der Intensivbehandlungsplätze sind nur unter größeren Schwierigkeiten aus dem Fahrzeug entfernbar, so dass die Patienten immer im Fahrzeug umgelagert werden müssen.
Zusätzlich zu den drei Intensivbehandlungsplätzen besteht noch die Möglichkeit, einen schwergewichtigen Patienten auf einer dafür vorhandenen Schwerlast-Trage zu befördern, die Schwerlasttrage der Firma Stryker wird durch die mittlere Tür des Fahrzeuges über eine dort vorhandene Rampe in das Fahrzeug geschoben und auf dem Fahrzeugboden verkehrssicher arretiert.
Neben dem Transport von intensivpflichtigen oder schwergewichtigen Patienten wird dieses Fahrzeug auch im Düsseldorfer Norden als Aufenthaltsraum für Bewohner eingesetzt, die auf Grund eines aktuellen Einsatzgeschehens nicht in ihren Wohnungen verbleiben können.
Das Fahrzeug wird bei einem Evakuierungsfall mit einem Beamten der Feuer- und Rettungswache 05 an die Einsatzstelle verbracht und dort von ebenfalls hinzugeführtem Personal besetzt. Bei einer Intensivverlegung oder dem Transport eines schwergewichtigen Patienten steigt immer eine RTW-Besatzung und bei Bedarf ein Notarzt hinzu
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Today (Thursday 8 August 2013) saw the sun shine and thousands of people visit the third annual Emergency Services Open Day which took place at The Trafford Centre.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP), Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS), North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) and a range of other emergency response, community safety and support services put on a range of displays and demonstrations to entertain and inform the public.
The event is believed to been one of the largest free events of its kind in the country.
Visitors to the event were able to see a wide range of vehicles, appliances and equipment from the many agencies that work closely together to make Greater Manchester and the North West a safer place.
The live displays included a simulated road traffic collision, a kitchen safety display, cadet unit demonstrations and many more.
Drivers, young and old, whether on two wheels or four, were able to pick up tips to stay safe on the roads from the Fire and Rescue Service, Police, Institute of Advanced Motorists and RoSPA.
The mountain rescue zone saw a wide range of equipment and vehicles used to support the emergency services and communities in the rural areas of the county.
The vintage zone allowed visitors to come face to face with the past with some classic fire engines, police cars and ambulances.
The army was also on hand with a climbing wall and other practical challenges.
Visitors also had the chance to pick up vital lifesaving skills including how to deal with heart attacks using cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automatic external defibrillator (AED) devices taught by NWAS paramedics and supported by The British Heart Foundation and a number of supporting groups offering Basic Life Support instruction.
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You should call 101, the new national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
London Ambulance Service is 50 years old today (Wednesday 1 April) and will be celebrating with ‘ambulance drivers’ from the sixties meeting 21st century paramedics in old and new vehicles.
Fifty years ago suited ‘ambulance drivers’ picked up patients and took them straight to hospital but today, highly skilled clinicians, many with paramedic science degrees, diagnose and treat patients at the scene of incidents.
Chief Executive Dr Fionna Moore said: “Back in the old days we used to ‘scoop and run’ patients straight to hospital. There was just a stretcher, a splint and breathing apparatus in the back of an ambulance and staff had eight weeks training.
“In contrast, today, we have a wide range of frontline staff, from emergency ambulance crew, through to advanced and consultant paramedics and have a paramedic at director-level on our Trust Board. Increasingly, our paramedics have a three-year paramedic science degree. They carry up to 30 different drugs and make life and death decisions about the most appropriate place to take a patient for treatment. Our ambulances are now kitted out with defibrillators to restart patients’ hearts and ECG machines to detect heart attacks.”
Peter Hayman, 74, who worked for the Service from 1965 to 1994, attended the ceremony at County Hall to mark the creation of the new ambulance service. He said: “I remember we introduced an inflatable splint which we thought was revolutionary because all we really had back then was a satchel of bandages and dressings but it’s nothing compared to the kit they have on an ambulance today.”
While technology and training has transformed the Service, Fionna says one thing which hasn’t changed is the commitment of ambulance staff to the health and well-being of Londoners.
She said: “Fifty years ago the whole of the UK only had one million emergency calls for an ambulance. In London alone we now receive over 1.7m a year.
“Ambulance and control room staff are committed, caring and compassionate people who continue to work in extremely challenging situations to help save the lives of Londoners.”