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		<title>New York &#124; DOH issues first summary report on LeRoy High School case</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Albany &#124; 4 Feb 2012 The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) released, today, the attached interim report on its investigation into a cluster of cases with tic-like symptoms in the Le Roy Central School District Junior/Senior High School. The findings in this report do not identify a need for the school district to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; State DoH extends NIH offer of free evaluation for LeRoy High School students</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Albany &#124; 1 Feb 2012 New York State Health Commissioner Nirav R. Shah, M.D, MPH today announced that the Department has secured an agreement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that the NIH will provide the Leroy High School students suffering from tic-like symptoms with a free, independent third-party evaluation of their cases. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; FDNY firefighters honored for donating bone marrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City &#124; 26 Jan 2012 Alise Mareerose Williams may just be 6-years-old, but she&#8217;s already experienced more than most adults. The young girl from Evansdale, Iowa, had two open heart surgeries by the time she was 16-months-old, after being diagnosed with a congenital heart defect when she was 2-months-old. Then, during a hospital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; FDNY urges New Yorkers to have working smoke and CO detectors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City &#124; 17 Jan 2012 After a fatal fire and two carbon monoxide incidents with fatalities and serious injuries in three days, the FDNY strongly urges all New Yorkers to have working smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) detectors in their homes. On Sat., Jan. 14, at 90-08 101 Ave., Queens, a CO incident [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; FDNY members who made off-duty saves are honored at Staten Island Borough Hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staten Island &#124; 17 Jan 2012 It’s often said that FDNY members never go off-duty, and three men who proved that to be true were honored for their heroic deeds in a special ceremony at Staten Island Borough Hall on Jan. 13. Capt. Gregg Hansson, Firefighter Steven Carl and EMT Matthew Cook were lauded by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; FDNY and ABC7 get together to launch Save A Life campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City &#124; 17 Jan 2012 The FDNY joined ABC 7 on Jan. 17 to launch the Operation 7 Save a Life campaign at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan. The 14th annual campaign includes a television program that will appear on ABC 7, urging New Yorkers to practice fire safety. &#8220;This is a vital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; FDNY firefighters from Ladder 163 honored by Department of Sanitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City &#124; 12 Jan 2012 Firefighters from Ladder 163 received a special award on Jan. 11, a Commissioner&#8217;s Citation from the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) during their annual awards ceremony at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. &#8220;We wanted to honor true FDNY heroes for helping one of our heroes,&#8221; said DSNY Commissioner John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; Response to carbon monoxide emergency teaches valuable safety lesson</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2012/01/new-york-response-to-carbon-monoxide-emergency-teaches-valuable-safety-lesson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City &#124; 10 Jan 2012 FDNY members responded to a carbon monoxide (CO) emergency on Vyse Avenue in the Bronx on Jan. 10. It was a dangerous situation made worse by the fact that simple safety measures were overlooked. &#8220;CO is odorless and colorless, and if you are in such an environment for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; New online NYC street closures map launched</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2012/01/new-york-new-online-nyc-street-closures-map-launched/</link>
		<comments>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2012/01/new-york-new-online-nyc-street-closures-map-launched/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City &#124; 10 Jan 2012 Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn today launched NYC Street Closures, the City’s new online mapping application for displaying street closure information across the five boroughs.  The tool, available on NYC.gov, provides details about current and planned full street closures obstructing normal vehicular traffic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; Graduation ceremony for more than 100 Community Emergency Response Team volunteers</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2012/01/new-york-graduation-ceremony-for-more-than-100-community-emergency-response-team-volunteers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City &#124; 09 Jan 2012 Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor for Operations Cas Holloway, Office of Emergency Management Commissioner Joseph F. Bruno, and Fire Commissioner Salvatore J. Cassano today presided over a graduation ceremony for more than 100 new Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteers. CERT teams support their local communities by assisting in emergency preparedness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; Bloomberg announces completion of major milestones in 911 system overhaul</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2012/01/new-york-bloomberg-announces-completion-of-major-milestones-in-911-system-overhaul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City &#124; Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor for Operations Cas Holloway, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, Fire Commissioner Salvatore J. Cassano and Information Technology Commissioner Carole Post today announced the completion of major milestones in the City’s 911 emergency call system overhaul. For the first time in city history, 911 emergency call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; Cardiac arrest victim reunited with his FDNY rescuers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engine 221 House &#124; John Stalzer, an iron worker, was helping build a new EMS Station at Metropolitan Avenue and Roebling Street, Brooklyn, on Dec. 13, when he started feeling ill. Moments later, he collapsed and went into cardiac arrest. He was having a serious heart attack which, doctors said, only has a three to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; FDNY firefighter retires after 33 years on the job</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2011/12/new-york-fdny-firefighter-retires-after-33-years-on-the-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engine 247 &#124; He served on the front lines in Vietnam. He responded to Sept. 11, 2001, the airplane crash in the Rockaways and delivered a baby. He was honored by a U.S. President. And he raised seven beautiful, successful children. Yet, Firefighter Thomas Wollack never wishes to talk about himself, and any attention makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; Update on condition of injured Rescue 2 firefighters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York NY &#124; Family members and doctors at William Randolph Hearst Burn Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center paused on Dec. 22 to update the public on the condition of two firefighters severely injured while fighting a fire in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Dec. 19. Firefighter Robert Wiedmann, 38, from Rescue 2 received [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; Off-duty FDNY firefighter rescues couple and their cat on Christmas Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staten Island &#124; It was an end to Christmas that he never expected. Off-duty Firefighter Steven Carl from Ladder 81 was driving home on Staten Island with his family on Dec. 25, when he spotted a house fire and was able to rescue two people and a cat trapped by the flames. &#8220;Those people were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; Fire deaths in NYC at all-time low</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York NY &#124; Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano joined Mayor Michael Bloomberg at City Hall on Dec. 28 to announce that there were 64 fire-related deaths in 2011, the second lowest total in recorded history. &#8220;The year 2011 has been, by far, the safest year in the city’s history,&#8221; Mayor Bloomberg said. &#8220;And it closes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; Health dept to survey adolescents about their health ten years after 9/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York NY &#124; The World Trade Center (WTC) Health Registry, the largest post-disaster public health registry in United States, launched its third pediatric health survey this month. More than 1,300 adolescent enrollees who were exposed to the WTC disaster will be asked to share valuable information about their health ten years after 9/11, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York &#124; DoH launches investigation into theft of prescription forms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Albany NY &#124; The New York State Department of Health has launched a full investigation into a reported theft of approximately 14,000 prescription forms from a downstate hospital, Commissioner Nirav Shah, M.D., M.P.H. announced today. In response to a theft reported on November 8, the Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement within the Department of Health will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY &#8211; MealMart Kosher Broiled Chicken Livers can cause illness from Salmonella bacteria</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYC &#8212; The New York City Health Department has identified 56 cases of Salmonella bacteria-related illness in New York City that are linked to eating MealMart brand kosher broiled chicken livers from the Schreiber Processing Corporation that were not cooked. Even though they are labeled as “broiled” and may appear cooked, chicken livers from this [...]]]></description>
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