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December, 2017
1ST Responder Newspaper - NE
MASSACHUSETTS
The Connecticut Fire Service Experience Volume 2 The Tradition Continues by Kevin R. McKeon
867 color and 120 black and white photos of apparatus, stations, firefighters, training, memorials, historical photos and informative text!
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PETER LOBO
Overturned Vehicle with Fatality in Weston Weston, MA - On November 8th, a call went out to Weston Fire Department for an overturned car at Wellesley and Newton Streets. Upon arrival, firefighters found the car on its roof and a utility pole split in half. The driver was given CPR and transported to Newton Wellesley Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The accident occurred when another car struck a deer and forced it into the deceased driver's car.
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The word ambulance is derived from the Latin “ambulare� which means to move about. It was used to describe the lifting or moving about of patients on two- wheeled carts. The Spanish first used such carts for emergency transport in 1487.
Bob Long