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Fire Dept. develops new Medical Marijuana Policy

In response to the Legalization medical Marijuana grow operations and dispensaries Allenadge Fire Chief Jimmy Marin expressed concerns that it was merely a matter of time before his department was “stuck dealing with" an emergency at one of these facilities.

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Kelly Grayson kicks off EMS civil war

Over the weekend EMS Blogger Kelly Grayson fired the first shot in what is quickly becoming known as the EMS Civil War. That shot came in the form of a simple Facebook post stating he was going to unlike a number unprofessional EMS Facebook pages.

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North Korea Hacking Police Parking Ticket Databases

The Police Chief of a small Wisconsin Town of Plattburg received an unusual email earlier this week. A message saying his officers were to prevent the local movie theater from showing The Interview, or else. Now today this Chief found out what the "Or Else" was, his parking ticket database erased.

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NYPD gives all cops Christmas off

NYPD Commissioner William J. Bratton has announced all NYPD officers get to be on vacation for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Starting at 3pm December 24th police officers will go off duty and will not return to duty until 7am on December 26th.

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The Truth Behind NFPA 1901 – The Solution to the Age Old Red / Yellow Debate

The Fire service has been deeply rooted in tradition, for decades fire apparatus has been red adorned with gold lettering, in the 1970’s some departments experimented with “Lime Green” which was more of a safety yellow, was said to improve the recognition of fire apparatus in traffic thus preventing accidents and injuries. This trend sparked the great red/yellow debate.

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Illinois police will use medical cannabis on duty

Last year in Illinois a medical cannabis pilot program was created by legislation and signed into law by Gov. Pat Quinn. Now the Illinois police officer standards board is issues a policy to police chiefs, “officers shall use cannabis on duty”.

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