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.
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In the real world, there are always tradeoffs. Protecting the environment is important. But protecting human life is also important.
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.
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.
More harm has been done in the name of show-off environmentalism.
Protecting the human life of carjackers is a little less important.
Yup, EPA murdered him
Wait until a civilian’s diesel vehicle cuts off in an Amish neighborhood at night.
These stupid controls are on Fire Engines also. Engineer to crews on hoselines inside burning structures. “Sorry guys my engine just shut down.”
Yes, the same CARB that used flawed studies to justify passage of the standard.
The blood is on their hands.
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Keep in the forefront of your mind .... you can’t outstupid a bureaucrat!
“These stupid controls are on Fire Engines also...”
Holy cow.
The source article was updated to say the EPA reg was modified and the FD never caught up. It’s all a big “nevermind.”
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