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- From: Chris.Chandler@f17.n275.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Chandler)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Code 99
- Message-ID: <722039258.F00018@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:11:00 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
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- DS> A question for all you rescue people out there from someone
- who
- DS>lives in a volunteer fire/rescue community in Maine...what does it
- DS>specifically mean when someone (dispatcher, EMT, etc) says it's a
- "code
- DS>99"? I have a scanner at my home so I can hear all the excitement in
- my
- DS>town when an alarm goes off or there's an accident, and the other
- night
- DS>there was a "CODE 99" broadcast and two days later the patient's
- DS>obituary was in the local paper.
-
- It depends because different areas sometimes use different codes, but
- if
- it is like our system here in Florida a code 99 is a cardiac arrest
- (which is consistant with the obituary).
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