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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!remote!UUCP
- From: Tim.Hardin@f904.n202.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Hardin)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Code 99
- Message-ID: <722173612.F00039@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:34:00 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
- Lines: 20
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- -> A question for all you rescue people out there from someone
- w
- -> lives in a volunteer fire/rescue community in Maine...what does it
- -> specifically mean when someone (dispatcher, EMT, etc) says it's a
- "co
- -> 99"? I have a scanner at my home so I can hear all the excitement in
- -> town when an alarm goes off or there's an accident, and the other
- nig
- -> there was a "CODE 99" broadcast and two days later the patient's
- -> obituary was in the local paper.
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- Out here in Ca. a "code 99" refers to an officer or other emergency
- personnel who need emergency assistance. I have only heard that used by
- EMS persons during things like the L.A. riots, while they were bing
- shot
- at.
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- * Origin: L-E BBS OnLine Santee, CA (1:202/904) 619-596-0870
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