PHOTOS: The 911 call came in about an elderly man who had fallen outside a storage facility in central Phoenix. The fire crew, who are also paramedics, found 80-year-old Noel laid on his back on the concrete ramp under direct sunlight; he was weak, thirsty and very hot.
Noel, an Englishman with diabetes and hypertension, had been moving furniture when his legs gave way. His core temperature was 104F – dangerously hot. (The typical range for a healthy older adult is 97 to 99F.) His blood pressure was also very high at 242/110, and his pulse was racing.
Noel had been lying on the piercing hot concrete ramp for about 45 minutes. A firefighter wrapped an ice cold towel around his neck and inserted IV lines into both arms. It was 3.30pm and the outside temperature hovered above 100F – below the average for the time of year in Phoenix, but several degrees hotter than the previous week when monsoon rains cooled the city.
This was not an isolated incident.
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VIDEO: In Northern Arizona, first responders went above and beyond their job to comfort a 6-year-old boy after both his parents and brother were killed in a car crash west of Flagstaff.
The crash happened on July 26, and volunteers with the Kaibab Estates West Volunteer Fire Department responded to the scene. "When we pulled up, it was just devastation," said volunteer EMT Laurie Granger. "We were kind of amazed. It was a true miracle that there was a survivor in this accident."
The crash involved the Stone family. They were driving through Arizona as they returned home from a family reunion in Colorado. The family car reportedly crossed the median, rolled, and collided head-on with a semi that was travelling east on the I-40. Alexander was the only person who survived the crash. His parents, Brian and Alison, and his eight-year-old brother, Oliver, died at the scene.
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County emergency management officials are seeking to aid Community Emergency Response Teams in Bullhead City and Lake Havasu City, as both programs continue to develop disaster relief efforts in two of Mohave County’s largest municipalities.
Since 2005, the Mohave County Department of Emergency Management has maintained equipment trailers in each city, to be used by community CERT teams under a grant from the Arizona Department of Homeland Security. According to Emergency Management Director Byron Steward, each community’s CERT disaster preparedness program has become more fully developed, with more direct management over those programs. Now, the cities could further improve their efforts next week, under a proposal to transfer ownership of those trailers to the cities themselves.
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PHOTO: The Northwest Fire District responded to a call for a car that crashed into a home.
They say the car drove through the garage door into a house located at Desert Paint Brush and Blue Crossing Way.
Firefighters confirm the driver was taken to a hospital for injuries sustained in the accident.
It is unknown if the driver was the owner of the house.
Please stay with KGUN 9 for continuing updates.
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PHOTO: More than 100 fire, medical and police staff attended an Aug. 10 appreciation breakfast for Mesa first-responders hosted by The Summit at Sunland Springs Assisted Living and Memory Care.
The breakfast was meant to thank the people who tirelessly serve Mesa residents, according to a release.
Also in attendance at the breakfast were Mesa Mayor John Giles, Fire Chief Mary Cameli, Assistant Chief Ed Wessing and Mesa Councilmember Kevin Thompson. Each addressed the gathered crowd and thanked them for their service and sacrifice.
“Thank you for your support of public safety,” Mayor Giles said to the attending crowd. “That’s our top priority in city government. We’re looked at as a national leader in this space.”
“We care,” said Fire Chief Cameli.
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