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This topic has been on my mind quite a bit lately as we’ve been working on a system to automatically publish information on the calls we (the North Karelia Rescue Department) get. I was originally planning on writing in Finnish about it, but the story (via) on Seattle Post-Intelligencer on how the Seattle FD changed its feed to prevent Seattle911.com from automatically displaying call locations on a map spurred me to write about in English first.

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The East Angliang Ambulance Service has launched a new campaign (via MeFi) that aims to have people store a contact number under ICE followed by the person’s name in their mobile phones. This would give ambulance and rescue services a number to contact in case of an emergency.
Naturally several different people can be added in [...]

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Our Fire Inspector in Liperi is an active bird watcher and our resident bird expert. He is the one that takes care of most of the bird rescue calls we get and handles the care of the birds from there on. During Juhannus he got a call about a small swan chick that had been [...]

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Seriocomic posted a link to an appeal to gather funds for rescue helicopters in New Zealand. He sees people saved by rescue choppers weekly. My sightings aren’t as active as that, but I recommend helping your local rescue choppers as well. They do rescue people and their help to the rescue personnel on the ground [...]

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I vaguely remember seeing Bambi in the movie theaters a long time ago. My mom says that I wasn’t really afraid of anything during the movie except when the fores fires started. A bit strange if you consider my current profession, don’t you think? This bout of nostalgia was brought on by me bumping into [...]

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