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- From: Rick.Wilson@f2112.n327.z1.fidonet.org (Rick Wilson)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Code 99
- Message-ID: <722554949.AA22347@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:47:01 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
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- Darryl...
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- 10 Nov 92, Darryl Seamans writes to All:
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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.
-
- Well, it would seem to me that if you hear "Code 99" and see the obit in
- the paper a couple days later, the patient has expired...
-
- Rick
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