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KOTA BARU: A single-engine light aircraft crash landed in an open space at a densely-populated residential area, near here, causing its 20-year-old pilot to suffer head and leg injuries. Firemen took 15 minutes to pull M. Shankar out of the…

Effective preparation for the next disaster—whether it’s a hurricane, plant explosion, active shooter situation or previously unimagined catastrophe—requires examining what worked well and what didn’t in the past.…

Nurse Triaging Changes EMS, Missing Stroke Patients, Critical Care Aftermath and we’ll take a look at the crush injury patient in this crossover segment from the Disaster Podcast. If that’s what you’re looking for, you…

A couple and their eight-month-old baby girl perished in an accident along Jalan Haji Abdul Manan, near Meru, here. According to police, the 9.20pm incident on Sunday happened when the family’s car, a Proton Satria, was speeding along…

A crash involving two fire engines sent one of them careering across a busy pavement and into the front of a Chinese restaurant. Fifteen people, at least five of them firefighters,…

A breakdown in communication or lack of effective strategies is often the reason a disaster turns into a catastrophe. Solid collaboration between each unit of the disaster preparedness community is the difference between weathering the…

Frederick M. BURKLE, Jr. Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC. James M. LYZNICKI James J. JAMESCenter for Public Health…

For decades, human albumin has been administered to patients to provide adequate oncotic pressure and intravascular volume. However, a report indicated that the administration of albumin may be potentially harmful in critically ill…

Shira A. Schlesinger, MD, MPH Kristi L. Koenig, MD, FACEP, FIFEM University of California, Irvine Center for Disaster Medical Sciences Community Paramedicine Comes to California Community Paramedicine engages pre-hospital providers to make…

Police and firefighters were responding, and the street contained at least two damaged cars. At least two people died and one was injured. The helicopter crashed near KOMO's offices causing a big fire. The visibility was clear and winds…