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Fire Marshall Rich Snyder gave a particularly moving talk about his
reaction to the tragedies. Edda Hutson, widow of recently passed
Rotarian Ron Hutson, spoke briefly, sharing briefly about Ron's truck
that Rotarians have used for their events for years, and which they had
wanted to sell for some time, but were never able to because there was
always a Rotary event coming up that would require its use by Rotary.

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In Australia there are volunteer brigades which are mostly unpaid rural
services (although traditionally they are paid by their employers if
called out during working hours).

In Germany, volunteer fire departments, called the "Freiwillige
Feuerwehr", are established in every town: even the biggest German
city, Berlin, with more than 3.6 million inhabitants, has volunteer
firefighters besides a career fire service. In fact, only 100 German
cities (most of them are towns with more than 100,000 inhabitants) have
a career fire service, called the "Berufsfeuerwehr," but in every one
of these cities a volunteer fire service exists, too.

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The expedient and accurate handling of fire alarms or calls are
significant factors in the successful outcome of any incident. Fire
department communications play a critical role in that successful
outcome. Fire department communications include the methods by which
the public can notify the communications center of an emergency, the
methods by which the center can notify the proper fire fighting forces,
and the methods by which information is exchanged at the scene. One
method is to use megaphones to communicate.

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The
featured speaker was Rotarian Kevin Danni, who was on the 61st floor of
the second tower to be hit by the commercial jetliners that were turned
into weapons by the terrorists. He spoke of seeing the results of the
crash for the first time, and thinking that he was seeing confetti
flying through the sky, similar to that he had seen at a NY parade just
a couple days earlier, only to discover it was the paper from the
offices falling down to earth after the impact.

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Cardiovascular disease

Firefighting has long been associated with poor cardiovascular
outcomes. In the United States, the most common cause of on-duty
fatalities for firefighters is sudden cardiac death. In addition to
personal factors that may predispose an individual to coronary artery
disease or other cardiovascular diseases, occupational exposures can
significantly increase a firefighter's risk. For instance, carbon
monoxide, present in nearly all fire environments, and hydrogen
cyanide, formed during the combustion of paper, cotton, plastics, and
other substances containing carbon and nitrogen, interfere with the
transport of oxygen in the body. Hypoxia can then lead to heart injury.
In addition, chronic exposure to particulate matter in smoke is
associated with atherosclerosis. Noise exposures may contribute to
hypertension and possibly ischemic heart disease. Other factors
associated with firefighting, such as stress, heat stress, and heavy
physical exertion, also increase the risk of cardiovascular events.[2]

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response to any significant disaster - natural or terrorist-borne - is
based on existing emergency management organizational systems and
processes: the Federal Response Plan (FRP) and the Incident Command
System (ICS). These systems are solidified through the principles of
Unified Command (UC) and Mutual Aid (MA)

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