FORUM:   EMS(Rescue                           HOST: MCBBS
DATE:    Dec-22-96 3:13pm                     MSG:  2
FROM:    BOB FRANKLIN
TO:      ALL
SUBJECT: Suicide
      1994's MOST BIZARRE SUICIDE
      At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American
    Association for Forensic Science, AAFS president Don Harper
    Mills astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal
    complications of a bizarre death.
    Here is the story:
      On 23 March 1994, the medical examiner viewed the body of
    Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the
    head. The decedent had jumped from the top of a ten-story building
    intDeaths

FORUM:   EMS(Rescue                           HOST: MCBBS
DATE:    Dec-22-96 3:14pm                     MSG:  3
FROM:    BOB FRANKLIN
TO:      ALL
SUBJECT: deaths
                          AMBULANCE ACCIDENT
Paramedic Charles Edwards of Birmingham and EMT Randy Capp of Jasper,
both of CareLine Alabama, were killed Thursday Morning, 12-19-96,
when their ambulance was struck by a freight train.  They were
returning from a call in which they backed up another unit on.
They were following the ambulance which was transporting
non-emergency.  The lead ambulance crossed the tracks and as their
unit approached the crossing, their view was obscured by parked rail
cars on a side track.The accident was witnessed by Capp's wife,
who was the Paramedic doing patient care in the lead unit. They were
crossing the tracks at a crawl when their unit was impacted by the
train at 42 mph. The accident happened in Jasper, Walker
County, AL about 60 miles Northwest of Birmingham. Their
funerals were today (Saturday 12-21-96).  Our condolences go out
to the families of both. They will be sorely missed in Alabama.
Any information that is inaccurate in this report is purely accidental.
                                        Tim Newman
                                        Communications Supervisor
                                        Decatur EMS, Inc.
                                        Decatur, AL
FELIX J. CIESLINSKI
 * Evaluation copy of Silver Xpress. Day # 13
 * Silver Xpress V4.4
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