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WELCOME
To All 911 Emergency Dispatchers:
I wanted to take the time to welcome you all here. We are about to begin the winter season of 2010. I appreciate all that you do in your lives and your careers. You all help keep this country moving and your officers protected. Too often, none of us recieve the respect and the appreciation that we are due.
To those that have come here to visit, please understand that this is a group devoted to Emergency Personnel and Emerrgency Personnel ONLY! If you are a 911 Dispatcher, you are welcome here and we encourage you to join our group. We try to share pertinent information that will help us to better do our job and to also protect ourselves.
Please enjoy our grouop and contribute ideas and please please share the things that make our job enjoyable and things that will make us laugh. Our jobs can be serious enough. Let's share the "funnies" in our lives. We all need to smile and laugh more often!
Have fun and as one of my favorite TV programs used to say, "Let's all be safe out there".
I wanted to take the time to welcome you all here. We are about to begin the winter season of 2010. I appreciate all that you do in your lives and your careers. You all help keep this country moving and your officers protected. Too often, none of us recieve the respect and the appreciation that we are due.
To those that have come here to visit, please understand that this is a group devoted to Emergency Personnel and Emerrgency Personnel ONLY! If you are a 911 Dispatcher, you are welcome here and we encourage you to join our group. We try to share pertinent information that will help us to better do our job and to also protect ourselves.
Please enjoy our grouop and contribute ideas and please please share the things that make our job enjoyable and things that will make us laugh. Our jobs can be serious enough. Let's share the "funnies" in our lives. We all need to smile and laugh more often!
Have fun and as one of my favorite TV programs used to say, "Let's all be safe out there".
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2010-2011 Flu Season
2010-2011 Flu Season
(Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
The 2010-2011 flu season officially began three weeks ago on 1 October. Although epidemics of influenza occur every year, the timing, severity, and length of the outbreak depends on many factors, including what flu viruses are spreading and whether they match the viruses in the vaccine. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), during the last flu season (2009-2010) the world experienced the emergence of the H1N1 virus (sometimes called the “swine flu”). This virus caused the first influenza pandemic in more than 40 years.
The CDC recommends a yearly flu vaccine as the first and most important step in protecting citizens and emergency personnel against this potentially serious sickness. “While there are many different flu viruses, the flu vaccine protects against the three main flu strains that research indicates will cause the most illness during the flu season.
There are additional preventive measures that you can practice to avoid infection, such as good health habits (e.g., quit smoking), frequently washing hands, avoiding sick people when possible, and antiviral medications if prescribed. More Seasonal Flu Information is available to assist you in prevention and protection efforts to maintain your health and the health of your families and your neighborhood.
(Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
The 2010-2011 flu season officially began three weeks ago on 1 October. Although epidemics of influenza occur every year, the timing, severity, and length of the outbreak depends on many factors, including what flu viruses are spreading and whether they match the viruses in the vaccine. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), during the last flu season (2009-2010) the world experienced the emergence of the H1N1 virus (sometimes called the “swine flu”). This virus caused the first influenza pandemic in more than 40 years.
The CDC recommends a yearly flu vaccine as the first and most important step in protecting citizens and emergency personnel against this potentially serious sickness. “While there are many different flu viruses, the flu vaccine protects against the three main flu strains that research indicates will cause the most illness during the flu season.
There are additional preventive measures that you can practice to avoid infection, such as good health habits (e.g., quit smoking), frequently washing hands, avoiding sick people when possible, and antiviral medications if prescribed. More Seasonal Flu Information is available to assist you in prevention and protection efforts to maintain your health and the health of your families and your neighborhood.
EMOM'S MOUNTAIN NEWS
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HEADS UP... ALERT
HEADS UP ALERT!!!! HEADS UP
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Today I received a catalog from FINGERHUT advising I had been PRE-APPROVED FOR CREDIT.
The front cover (black background with wide yellow banner) had spot for an attached credit card.
IF there was a credit card attached to the cover, it was no longer there. However, the catalog has my name, addy, customer number and a catalog number in at least two places.
I've reported this situation to the state police at/about 1610 hours today's date of 2012-1-06. (DispT.)
I have been doing a lot of checking.... PLEASE, PLEASE...be advised that if anyone uses the numbers assigned to you, you will be billed and held responsible for the amounts and interest... verified
Catalog can be years old and the above WILL STILL APPLY. verified
I called Better Business Bureau.... Company has had numerous complaints and per the BBB "closed down"... per BBB recordings (between 1600 and 1700 hours today's date)
This coming Monday, I will call the KY State Attorney General's office and the Owsley County Prosecutor.
As always with this type of post, I understand if the M/M's of the group remove it.
Paula Rice... aka meems/emom/mmm
posted less than a minute ago
Today I received a catalog from FINGERHUT advising I had been PRE-APPROVED FOR CREDIT.
The front cover (black background with wide yellow banner) had spot for an attached credit card.
IF there was a credit card attached to the cover, it was no longer there. However, the catalog has my name, addy, customer number and a catalog number in at least two places.
I've reported this situation to the state police at/about 1610 hours today's date of 2012-1-06. (DispT.)
I have been doing a lot of checking.... PLEASE, PLEASE...be advised that if anyone uses the numbers assigned to you, you will be billed and held responsible for the amounts and interest... verified
Catalog can be years old and the above WILL STILL APPLY. verified
I called Better Business Bureau.... Company has had numerous complaints and per the BBB "closed down"... per BBB recordings (between 1600 and 1700 hours today's date)
This coming Monday, I will call the KY State Attorney General's office and the Owsley County Prosecutor.
As always with this type of post, I understand if the M/M's of the group remove it.
Paula Rice... aka meems/emom/mmm
Happy New Year Everyone!
I just wanted to take a moment to Thank all of you for being members of this group. I want to thank you for doing the work that you do and for helping me doing my work. We together with our officers on the street are responsible for protecting and helping our friends and neighbors. For this I am eternally grateful to each and everyone of you!
I wish you a very Happy and Prosperous New Year. I wish you all the happiness that you can handle. No matter what else happens in life, keep on doing what you do and smile!
Happy New Year!
Ron
I wish you a very Happy and Prosperous New Year. I wish you all the happiness that you can handle. No matter what else happens in life, keep on doing what you do and smile!
Happy New Year!
Ron
Hear No Evil
Hear No Evil: A Dispatcher’s View on Officer Safety
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Imagine yourself in a situation where co-workers’ or friends’ lives, as well as the lives of citizens, are being threatened. Now imagine you have no weapons, no physical or visual contact, and can only listen to the events unfold. How would you feel? Would you feel helpless? As an emergency communicator, I have found myself in that very situation, feeling helpless because I cannot see the officers, the officers aren’t talking, and I am totally in the dark.
This is a very good article. I encourage you all to link to it and read it. We have all been there.
From all of us to all of you, We want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!!! May God Bless us all!
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Imagine yourself in a situation where co-workers’ or friends’ lives, as well as the lives of citizens, are being threatened. Now imagine you have no weapons, no physical or visual contact, and can only listen to the events unfold. How would you feel? Would you feel helpless? As an emergency communicator, I have found myself in that very situation, feeling helpless because I cannot see the officers, the officers aren’t talking, and I am totally in the dark.
This is a very good article. I encourage you all to link to it and read it. We have all been there.
From all of us to all of you, We want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!!! May God Bless us all!
Welcome to the Holiday Season Everyone
Hey gang! I just wanted to hop in here and greet you all! I hope you all have a safe and sane Holiday Season.
This season can be very hectic and a lot of people are not always happy. In this world of ours today, things are getting more and more wrapped up with people doing more and more dumb things. Please be safe and be happy.
May God bless us all to make the right decisions and to help one another. We all need each other but especially now.
Enjoy your Christmas season! Hug and keep your families close. We need them now more than ever.!
Merry Christmas Everyone!
This season can be very hectic and a lot of people are not always happy. In this world of ours today, things are getting more and more wrapped up with people doing more and more dumb things. Please be safe and be happy.
May God bless us all to make the right decisions and to help one another. We all need each other but especially now.
Enjoy your Christmas season! Hug and keep your families close. We need them now more than ever.!
Merry Christmas Everyone!
A 911 Tribute
Revered network news anchor Tom Brokaw joined the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on Music and the Spoken Word for a special tribute on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
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On this day, I want to pay tribute to those who lost their lives on that fateful day 10 years ago. It has truly been an honor to serve with them! I thank God for all of you who I have worked with and served with. My prayers go up to those of you an e lost loved one's in service to our communities and our nation. God Bless America!
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On this day, I want to pay tribute to those who lost their lives on that fateful day 10 years ago. It has truly been an honor to serve with them! I thank God for all of you who I have worked with and served with. My prayers go up to those of you an e lost loved one's in service to our communities and our nation. God Bless America!
National EAS Test Toolkit Published
With the day for the big national Emergency Alert System (EAS) test creeping up on us, FEMA has published a "toolkit" to help local and state public safety officials prepare themselves and their public for the test. The main purpose is to minimize undue public concern or misunderstanding about the test.
There's certainly potential for concern or misunderstanding. This is the first time ever EAS has been tested nationally. So, on November 9th at 2pm (Eastern), virtually all broadcast and cable programming in the U.S. will be interrupted at once with those attention-getting tones. So, imagine a listener or a viewer trying to change channels or stations to get away from the test...only to find it everywhere they tune. And, unlike the typical tests they may hear or see at random times, this one will be long...more than three minutes in length. If people don't realize that it's really a test, what will they do? They'll call YOU - 9-1-1 operators and emergency managers.
See First Response
There's certainly potential for concern or misunderstanding. This is the first time ever EAS has been tested nationally. So, on November 9th at 2pm (Eastern), virtually all broadcast and cable programming in the U.S. will be interrupted at once with those attention-getting tones. So, imagine a listener or a viewer trying to change channels or stations to get away from the test...only to find it everywhere they tune. And, unlike the typical tests they may hear or see at random times, this one will be long...more than three minutes in length. If people don't realize that it's really a test, what will they do? They'll call YOU - 9-1-1 operators and emergency managers.
See First Response
