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In ages gone by, a stretcher was a piece of canvas with a pole along each side. From images of…
We cannot say with any certainly when the first stretcher was used, but its history cannot be separated from the history of rescue.
The earliest documented testimony of something resembling the concept of medical assistance goes back to the…
Extensive fire in California, damage amounting to about 225 million dollars, fire crews resort to…
It was a monster fire affecting over 11,000 hectares of vegetation in the county of Ventura, California, with flames reaching incredible heights heading towards Santa Monica near Los Angeles.
The intervention by about 2000 fire fighters was…
Like Star Wars in Texas: explosion of a fertilizer factory caused 14 deaths and 150 wounded
On a quiet spring night in the typical Texan town of West the scene was like the explosion of a bomb. 2,800 inhabitants, a few miles north of Waco.