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To: nickcarraway

I’m sorry the guy died but a police car is not an ambulance and policemen are not EMTs.


2 posted on 03/07/2023 1:50:36 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“I’m sorry the guy died but a police car is not an ambulance and policemen are not EMTs.”

Starting in 1980, every company I worked for ran training programs to teach CPR and how to use the fire extinguisher. I took the opportunity at each company to get the practice. They also trained us on how to use defibrillators. One day I see the maintenance guys hauling a pallet of fire extinguishers out the building. I asked why. The company lawyers had decided the liability of someone staying to fight a fire was too high. (Incidentally, several of the companies I worked at over the years had small fires that could have turned into major disasters that were put out by fast-acting employees.) They also forbade CPR and removed the defibrillators. Same reason. I don’t know how common this is now. But if one Fortune 500 company is doing it, it is probably common.


4 posted on 03/07/2023 1:58:33 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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