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As I said, my son was a volunteer fireman .... now he is a police officer. I have often thought how sad it is that the very ppl we call upon for help, that see the most gruesome of scenes, risk their own lives, are among the underpaid :(

By Susan E. Matthews, MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Writer | LiveScience.com – 3 hrs ago The bit in red (my highlight) is a bit scary ! :eek: Cellphones carry 10 times more bacteria than most toilet seats, so it shouldn't be surprising that a man in Uganda reportedly contracted Ebola after...

Wow, how unusual, no wonder she is an instant hit LOL

Another 'space' tidbit for those interested :) Supermassive black holes and hot galaxies in giant haul BBC News - Supermassive black holes and hot galaxies in giant haul

Wasn't it Panther that stopped this practice? Dispatchers couldn't own or have relatives who owned vehicles?

Heard from my son ...... Firemen and paramedics in Inner Cities have started to carry body armour in recent years. Never having visited Penrith, Cumbria (up near Scotland) I couldn't tell you if it was inner city or not. But nevertheless ...... I stand corrected .... Some Fire Engines...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 100-year-old man backed his car on to a sidewalk and hit 11 people, including nine children, across from an elementary school in South Los Angeles just after classes had ended Wednesday, authorities said. Four of the children were in critical condition when firefighters...

In America maybe - but after extensive searching (well one attempt actually) ..... I still cannot find anything to support UK Firemen have such items onboard. The only mention of the firemen wearing body armour is in American News reports ..... :rolleyes: LOL. My son was a volunteer fireman...

My, my Betsy .... what white teeth you have ROFL :p well done Ragman LOL Betsy does look happy now doesn't she :D

And the more sedate Beeb version is ..... BBC News - Cow rescued by fire crews after getting stuck in tree Reuters ......... now how do we make a cow stuck in a tree story more DRAMATIC....... (Fire crews) had to wear body armoUr ROFL (Never heard of Fire Crews having body armour on...

Disgusting behaviour !! BBC Two attendees were ejected from Republican National Convention on Tuesday for throwing nuts at a black CNN camerawoman. The individuals told her "this is how we feed animals" as they threw the nuts, multiple witness said. Convention security and police...

Unwashed undies .....eewwwwwww :eek: Video report BBC News - Elvis Presley's Bible and unwashed pants for auction

Interesting article .... IMO of course lol BBC Video - BBC News - The curious allure of child preachers The curious allure of child preachers An 11-year-old boy in the US has been ordained as a minister in his family's church, and also preaches at a number of local churches. He is...

BBC A group of American soldiers formed an anarchist militia and plotted to overthrow the United States government, a court in Georgia has heard. The allegations emerged in a murder case against four soldiers accused of belonging to the group. Prosecutors say the men formed a militia...

BBC Researchers have spotted visible-light evidence for one of astronomy's most elusive targets - gravity waves - in the orbit of a pair of dead stars. Until now, these ripples in space-time, first predicted by Einstein, have only been inferred from radio-wave sources. But a change in...

BBC Yosemite National Park is warning 1,700 visitors who stayed in some of its tent cabins this summer that they may have been exposed to a deadly virus. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome has been blamed for the deaths of two campers who stayed at the Californian park. The disease can be...

AFP French prosecutors have opened a murder enquiry into Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's 2004 death near Paris following claims he may have died of polonium poisoning, sources close to the matter told AFP Tuesday. The probe comes after Arafat's family launched legal action in France...

BBC American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh has testified in a federal court that restrictions on group prayer for Muslim prisoners are "absurd". Lindh has joined a legal challenge filed by two other Muslim prisoners to a ban on daily group prayers at the federal prison in Terre...

Family of alleged shooter "horrified" - Yahoo! News Apparently the shooter had been bullied .... what happened to sorting things out with fisty cuffs? "No one answered the door Monday evening at the home of the alleged shooter's mother. A sign at the house said, "We don't call 911" and...

AP KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — A man dressed in a military-style "ghillie" suit and apparently trying to provoke reports of a Bigfoot sighting in northwest Montana was struck by two cars and killed, authorities said. The man was standing in the right-hand lane of U.S. Highway 93 south of...