All Blog Posts Tagged 'emergency' (3)

By Angie Francalancia



If a county pocket resident were choking today, Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue would call Boynton Beach to race to his aid, shaving several minutes off the response time from the county’s nearest station.

Since November 2009, when 48-year-old Bill Dunn choked on a bite of steak and died while Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue took nearly 13 minutes to arrive from its closest station — near Military Trail — residents in the pocket have pushed for faster response… Continue

By Nirvi Shah



Ever since it took Palm Beach County Fire Rescue more than 12 minutes to respond to the scene of a man choking in the county pocket last year — a call that ended in the man’s death — a group of the area’s residents have been clamoring for emergency service that comes from a much closer rescue agency.

Now they have it. Sort of.

Since March, Boynton Beach Fire Rescue — which is miles nearer to the area than the responding county fire station — has been called upon… Continue

By Antigone Barton

While authorities still can’t say when, where and how much oil from BP’s Deepwater Horizon drill site might show up on local beaches, they can say where the first

tar balls spotted here will go next.

Packaged as a…

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