911:: Blood donation (was 'ATTN MASS DISPATCHERS')

[Guest guest]

>

> I live too far away but good luck with the blood drive. I

> will be praying for him and his family.

> Tammy

The American Red Cross system allows donors to designate

their blood donation to replenish on behalf of anyone in

the country. So do some other blood programs. So print

out the original message so you have the right name and

location and go down to your local bloodmobile or center

and give up a unit. Even better, loosen the tourniquet

so you bleed real fast and get a head rush.

Maybe that's what's wrong wit me.....

Calls occur randomly... all at the same time.

R J 'Tree' Greenwood

doctree@... or tree.greenwood@...

doctree@... on 911 Console

Falls Church City & Fauquier County, VA

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[Guest guest]

Back in 1989, the chief or one of our adjoining fire departments suffered

fatal injuries in an industrial accident at the trucking company where he was

employed. In the 20 hours before he succumbed, the hospital gave him something

like 75 pints of blood (does that sound right?) which required replacement.

Because of that the fire departments in our area found that if they sponsored

just one annual blood bank that all of their members would be covered in full

and the families of those donating would be covered. In addition any citizen

who donated at our location would be fully covered in the same manner.

It is sad to say that a tragedy is usually needed to prompt action, and while

it may be too late for this incident I'd suggest checking out these

possibilities with your local blood banks.

Rich Dean

Rich Dean, NJ USA .. secondary email addresses are rldean@...,

deanr@... .. HS Class of 1970, Vol Firefighter since 1973,

Telecommunciator/Dispatch since 1975, Railfan since birth in 1952.. Founder of

Egroups.com groups for NJArea, Fire-Police, NJ_Area_Railpics,

NorthAmericanParades and NorthJerseyVolFire.. Member of many more online groups

such as nysw@..., nyswegroups, tiersightings@egroups,

Fire-L@topica, Firepics@egroups, 911dispatcher@egroups

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[Guest guest]

Back in 1989, the chief or one of our adjoining fire departments suffered

fatal injuries in an industrial accident at the trucking company where he was

employed. In the 20 hours before he succumbed, the hospital gave him something

like 75 pints of blood (does that sound right?) which required replacement.

Because of that the fire departments in our area found that if they sponsored

just one annual blood bank that all of their members would be covered in full

and the families of those donating would be covered. In addition any citizen

who donated at our location would be fully covered in the same manner.

It is sad to say that a tragedy is usually needed to prompt action, and while

it may be too late for this incident I'd suggest checking out these

possibilities with your local blood banks.

Rich Dean

Rich Dean, NJ USA .. secondary email addresses are rldean@...,

deanr@... .. HS Class of 1970, Vol Firefighter since 1973,

Telecommunciator/Dispatch since 1975, Railfan since birth in 1952.. Founder of

Egroups.com groups for NJArea, Fire-Police, NJ_Area_Railpics,

NorthAmericanParades and NorthJerseyVolFire.. Member of many more online groups

such as nysw@..., nyswegroups, tiersightings@egroups,

Fire-L@topica, Firepics@egroups, 911dispatcher@egroups

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