Skip to main content

Breaking News - Explosion at Boston Marathon


UPDATE - 15 APRIL 2013 - 1934HRS

Right now, emergency responders are still checking the area after multiple bombs exploded around the finish line of the Boston Marathon, and a couple of additional devices have been found and disarmed prior to them harming others. Reports now show 2 confirmed deaths in this tragic terrorist attack on American Soil. In addition to the fatalities, dozens more have been injured (too varying degrees)and their conditions are uncertain at this point. Some reports (CNN) state that more than 110 are being treated with 8 critical and 14 serious, but overall unknown.

CNN is compiling a list of confirmed statements/actions that are surrounding this evening and those can be found .

Evidently, the news sources are announcing that investigators "close to the investigation" are announcing this as terrorism, but no clues are available as to domestic or international because of a lack of information regarding the potential attacks.

The attacks have far reaching repercussions as the race brings in more than 27,000 participants for all the events tied to the race. Those racers come from all over the US, and the world to participate in this premier event. Even further, families are dealing with the loss of loved ones and unknown contacts for those that are injured. Even further than that the DOW Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) dropped 266 points creating an economic downturn to this as well.

This far reaching event is continuing on as the investigation goes forward.
UPDATE - 15 April 2013 - 1606hrs
NY Times Update
This New York Times update was published just 7 minutes ago and begins to get into details about the explosions that occurred at the Boston Marathon.  It is reported that explosions occurred just 4 hours after the start of the men's race which left several thousand runners left to complete the race.  Video from the finish line shows one of the explosions (linked above) which shows runners reacting to the situation.  Headquarters for the Marathon was locked down immediately.

It is unclear the extent of the damage at this point.  Fox News is reporting that there are multiple fatalities on site, which are unconfirmed at this time.



Update - 1533hrs

Police confirm explosion. Broadcastify has Boston audio.

Update - 1526hrs

AP reporting injuries are present, but don't know estimates.

Original - 15 Apr 2013 - 1518hrs

It is reported that two explosions occurred at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Marathon stopped unknown on injuries. More as I get it.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Bystanders dive in to save 6 year old.

I can't help it...I really enjoy hearing stories about people taking the risks associated with helping others. Now, I completly advocate for calculated risks, and in this event the bystanders thought the risk of their lives versus that of a 6 year old child was a good exchange, and for the 6 year old it was. Now professional rescuers are looking for those that entered the raging river in hopes of a successful outcome. South Dakota rescuers are attempting to mitigate minimal visability from a foam riddled river looking for the two individuals who rescued a boy. As reporters state, the Foam is a by-product of chemical agents that are leaked into the river causing grave circumstances for the two. Now those very same responders are presuming those two individuals have drown in the icy river in which they were able to extricate the 6 year old from. (http://www.emsworld.com/news/10894951/woman-man-drown-in-icy-south-dakota-river) Take Care and Stay Safe! Combomedic twitter...
Post a Comment
Read more

Mentor Leadership

( www.amazon.com ) Tonight I began reading the Tony Dungy book "The Mentor Leader".  Everybody that has small knowledge of the NFL knows about Tony Dungy and his reputation and I can only wish that I was part of the Colts organization to be a fly on the wall to hear just a few words of his leadership style.  While I am still just in the beginning of this book I have already started to look at things slightly different than I did before.  So I started to look in my history and see who my mentors have been, or who they might currently be.  I looked at why I chose them, or why I considered them my mentors and I can really see that I jumped right into those because of their ability to get me where I want to be.  In the beginning of the book Coach Dungy states that most people look to get their leadership skills from those that have awesome bank accounts or tremendous winning percentages, but never for the way a leader is viewed, for what they really do....
Post a Comment
Read more

EMS Today 2013 - Social Media Style

EMS Today 2013 is has ended and everybody is returning back to their homes in spite of mother natures attempt to infiltrate Washington DC with #snowquester2013.  Don't you just love how so many take a name and quickly rebrand it into another name.  Now I must say, EMS Today 2013 was a massive success...and I wasn't even there.  The 2013 JEMS Conference and Exposition was held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in the center of the Nation's Capital, Washington DC.  Kicking off the conference with the National Association of EMS Educators Instructor I course, the main conference was held from 5-9 March 2013. AJ Heightman, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Emergency Medical Services (www.jems.com) providing the momentous kick-off necessary for a conference of this size.  Coming forward in a three piece suit, Mr. Heightman spoke to the "Changing History, Unchangeable Dedication" and brought the attendees through the years and provided awards to thos...
Post a Comment
Read more