All Entries Tagged With: "EMS"
The Hyatt Regency Skywalk Collapse 1981; The Begining of Urban Heavy Rescue
The Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse July 1981 On July 17, 1981 a suspended walkway collapsed in The Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring 216 others during a tea dance. At the time, it was the deadliest structural collapse in U.S. history. This event and a subsequent series of other […]
Remembering FDNY Black Sunday…Multiple Firefighter LODDs January 23, 2005
FDNY: Remembering FDNY Black Sunday…LODD 2005 The call had come at 7:59 on a Sunday morning, the day after a January blizzard had shut down the city. There was still more than a foot of unplowed snow on East 178th Street off the Grand Concourse, and some of it was still swirling in 45-mile-an-hour gusts. […]
The Mega Cities and Seven Billion Inhabitants
National Geographic Magazine is running a special series on population. By the end of this year there will be 7 billion inhabitants. Sometime in late 2011, according to the UN Population Division, there will be seven billion of us. And the explosion, though it is slowing, is far from over. Not only are people living […]
