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Kentucky: Firefighter hurt in ice bucket challenge dies
Press Democrat ^ | September 20, 2014

Posted on 09/20/2014 11:33:53 AM PDT by rey

LOUISVILLE — A central Kentucky firefighter injured in an "ice bucket challenge" has died a month after a power line shocked him and another man.

Campbellsville Fire Chief Kyle Smith says 41-year-old Tony Grider died Saturday. Grider was a captain with the department on Aug. 21. He and 22-year-old firefighter Simon Quinn were on the fire truck's ladder when it got too close to a power line after dumping water on Campbellsville University's marching band in the charity stunt to raise awareness for the disease ALS.

Quinn was released from the hospital Sept. 15.

Two other firefighters were injured, but were released from the hospital.

Campbellsville University, a private college, is a Christian institution that has about 3,600 students, according to its website. It is about 65 miles south of Louisville.


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KEYWORDS: firefighter; icebucket
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Sad though this is I wish to note that the idea of dumping ice on someone does little to raise awareness, and why is awareness necessary? It is largely genetic and there isn't any real treatment so one cannot avoid it like other diseases and if you have it you have it. Being aware does not aid in a cure. It is like wearing pink or sporting a ribbon; it just makes us feel better rather than actually doing something or thinking critically about it.
1 posted on 09/20/2014 11:33:53 AM PDT by rey
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To: rey

Ditto what you said.


2 posted on 09/20/2014 11:35:43 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't just stand there! Help fight political correctness!)
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To: rey

Dreadful. RIP.


3 posted on 09/20/2014 11:36:04 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: rey

All this “awareness” stuff ... guys, have you ever seen a “prostrate awareness month?” - people who don’t live in their parents basement are “aware” of afflictions that harm or kill people.


4 posted on 09/20/2014 11:37:07 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: rey

This has nothing to do with the fund raising.

What is strange about this story is that the firemen that should have been the experts involved, managed to pull off acting like the “hold my beer” guys, and the Captain killed himself through his own job work related incompetence.


5 posted on 09/20/2014 11:38:15 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: rey

How do legitimate firefighters get their cherry picker too close to a power line? And guys die because of it. I have my own suspicions


6 posted on 09/20/2014 11:41:56 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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>>Being aware does not aid in a cure.<<

This awareness campaign raised over $100 million dollars (http://www.alsa.org/news/media/press-releases/ice-bucket-challenge-082914.html) — 50 times what they got in the same period the prior year.

The stunt morphed from “donate OR ice bucket” to “donate AND ice bucket” (although really only 10% have donated, but it still more than doubled donations).


7 posted on 09/20/2014 11:42:08 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
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To: SkyDancer

Prostate


8 posted on 09/20/2014 11:43:05 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: SkyDancer
Man taking the 'Prostrate Challenge".


9 posted on 09/20/2014 11:44:25 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: SkyDancer

You made me laugh. I can’t wait to see a run for the butt holes event.

However, prostrate awareness, one could argue, might aid in early detection and treatment and therefore save a life.


10 posted on 09/20/2014 11:44:55 AM PDT by rey
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To: Magic Fingers

Unfortunately there is no edit feature here. My spell check didn’t catch it and I noticed it after I hit post. I shall save this reply for the next hundred or so people who bring this to my attention. I wanted to write: PROSTATE!


11 posted on 09/20/2014 11:45:38 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: rey

Or even PROSTATE awareness...


12 posted on 09/20/2014 11:45:54 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: rey

It appears that the bucket challenge is sponsored by the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), not the ALS folks
http://mda.org/disease/amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis?iq_id=70605366&source_code=140802AAAC030724_-VQ16-c

Other research indicates that 25% of each dollar raised goes to overhead for the MDA.


13 posted on 09/20/2014 11:46:29 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: rey

Unfortunately there is no edit feature here. My spell check didn’t catch it and I noticed it after I hit post. I shall save this reply for the next hundred or so people who bring this to my attention. I wanted to write: PROSTATE!


14 posted on 09/20/2014 11:46:37 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: skeeter

Unfortunately there is no edit feature here. My spell check didn’t catch it and I noticed it after I hit post. I shall save this reply for the next hundred or so people who bring this to my attention. I wanted to write: PROSTATE!


15 posted on 09/20/2014 11:47:07 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: skeeter

LOL!


16 posted on 09/20/2014 11:47:18 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: freedumb2003

What the campaign raised was the rate of people behaving foolishly while somehow justifying it in their minds. And sorry, but I am highly skeptical of the many millions raised by cancer, heart disease and ALS reasearch, to name a few. That’s nice they got their money, but count me out.


17 posted on 09/20/2014 11:48:34 AM PDT by rey
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To: SkyDancer

For a brief time, the NFL had a prostate cancer awareness month but then it disappeared into a sea of pink. You’d think all the breast cancer awareness stuff would be held during the WNBA season, but, no. They’ve bullied their way into men’s sports.


18 posted on 09/20/2014 11:49:34 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: skeeter

LMAO.


19 posted on 09/20/2014 11:50:46 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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To: SkyDancer

Are you kidding? I’m the malaprop king. Auto spellcheck only enhances my abilities.


20 posted on 09/20/2014 11:50:46 AM PDT by skeeter
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