This NY Times piece brings up a very good point. The questions do need to be asked and an appropriate balance sought. The stakes are too high to ignore. Most of all in human life but also in terms of liability issues. Driven to Distraction – Distracted Driving in Ambulances and Police Cruisers – NYTimes.com.
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Distracted Driving in Ambulances and Police Cruisers
Posted in Emergency Services, tagged distracted, EVOC, Loss Control on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Federal Flood Insurance Program Granted Temporary Extension
Posted in Emergency Services, Legislation, tagged Flood on October 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The U.S. Senate passed a temporary extension of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and President Barack Obama signed the legislation into law just few hours before the program was set to expire yesterday. The NFIP extension was passed as a Continuing Resolution (CR) by the Senate as part of the House-Senate Conference Report on [...]
CDL Exemptions for Emergency Vehicles in New York
Posted in Emergency Services, Loss Control, tagged ESIP, EVOC, loss controll on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CDL Exemptions By Bill Tricarico Director, Loss Control Services Emergency Services Insurance Program Throughout most of this great nation, fire service personnel enjoy an exemption from the rules which say that driving trucks or buses over a certain weight requires a special commercial driver’s license (CDL). Instead, most firefighters and other emergency service personnel are [...]
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