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The EPA and a seven-minute ambulance delay [EPA shuts down ambulance taking patient to hospital]
Washington Post ^ | May 30, 2013 | Mike DeBonis

Posted on 05/31/2013 4:39:13 PM PDT by grundle

A Wednesday shootout on the streets of Washington Highlands left a cop injured and a carjacking suspect dead. But before the suspect expired, he went on an unusual ambulance ride that involved moving him from one vehicle to another on the shoulder of Interstate 295. While this might appear to be another story of Fire and Emergency Medical Services dysfunction, the story is rather more complicated. As WUSA-TV explains, newer-model diesel engines are required by federal regulations to have emission-control features that, in some circumstances, require the motor to shut down for “regeneration” — a process in which the exhaust system burns off trapped soot. The need for regeneration can be unpredictable. The transfer to a second ambulance delayed 34-year-old Nathaniel McRae’s arrival at a hospital by seven minutes; FEMS insists the wait did not play a role in his death.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: enviralists; environmentalism; epa; epaambulance; epaoutofcontrol
When radical environmentalists say that we have to protect the environment "regardless of the cost," this is the kind of "cost" that they are talking about.

In the real world, there are always tradeoffs. Protecting the environment is important. But protecting human life is also important.

1 posted on 05/31/2013 4:39:13 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

Haven’t read the story, but unless he was dead before the transfer, or died within that 7 minute window ... the EPA murdered a man.


2 posted on 05/31/2013 4:41:29 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I can't prove it, but they're true)
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To: grundle

And the RINOS continue to scream about the need to rid the party of us extremists.

I can tell you one thing is for sure. It wasn’t a tea partier who came up with this kind of stupidity.


3 posted on 05/31/2013 4:46:28 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: grundle

More harm has been done in the name of show-off environmentalism.


4 posted on 05/31/2013 4:47:55 PM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 12 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: grundle

Protecting the human life of carjackers is a little less important.


5 posted on 05/31/2013 4:51:04 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: knarf

Yup, EPA murdered him


6 posted on 05/31/2013 5:06:35 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: grundle

Wait until a civilian’s diesel vehicle cuts off in an Amish neighborhood at night.


7 posted on 05/31/2013 5:09:49 PM PDT by moovova
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To: moovova

These stupid controls are on Fire Engines also. Engineer to crews on hoselines inside burning structures. “Sorry guys my engine just shut down.”


8 posted on 05/31/2013 5:19:52 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: grundle
We can thank the California Air Resources Board for this.

Yes, the same CARB that used flawed studies to justify passage of the standard.

The blood is on their hands.

9 posted on 05/31/2013 5:29:19 PM PDT by stboz
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To: grundle

“911 is a joke.” - composer William J. Drayton Jr.


10 posted on 05/31/2013 5:31:40 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: grundle
Emergency and military equipment should be exempt from all environmental regulations.
Especially when there is ANY chance of it interfering with the use or operation of such equipment.

11 posted on 05/31/2013 5:42:38 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: grundle; HoosierDammit; TYVets; red irish; fastrock; NorthernCrunchyCon; UMCRevMom@aol.com; ...
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Add me / Remove me

Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of general interest.

12 posted on 05/31/2013 5:48:13 PM PDT by narses
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To: grundle

Keep in the forefront of your mind .... you can’t outstupid a bureaucrat!


13 posted on 05/31/2013 6:22:55 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Truth - the new hate speech!)
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To: moovova


14 posted on 05/31/2013 6:58:15 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: UB355

“These stupid controls are on Fire Engines also...”

Holy cow.


15 posted on 05/31/2013 7:00:23 PM PDT by moovova
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To: grundle

The source article was updated to say the EPA reg was modified and the FD never caught up. It’s all a big “nevermind.”


16 posted on 05/31/2013 8:46:39 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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