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This week - One for the books


Wow, this week has been a difficult week for the country.  If you listen to the KLOVE radio station, they have been talking about the situations this week in Boston and Texas and have been trying to continue providing positive and encouraging radio.  It is really easy to get into the effect of these incidents and lose perspective of what is going on.  The tragedies of this week have been significant.  If you look, we lost several lives and injured many more in the bombings during the Boston Marathon, and several lives were lost and more were injured after a fertilizer fire/explosion in West, Texas.  

In addition to that, a Senators office and the Presidential post office received letters that contained a highly potent biological warfare agent named Ricin.  Furthermore, a large business close to where I work was raided and under investigation for defrauding customers across the northern hemisphere and then Boston has been on lock-down all day today in response to the death of one of the bombing suspects and the continued pursuit of the other.  Furthermore a long-time paramedic was killed in a car accident this week...and just!

Those are just a few of the things that I have actually heard about this week.  I am not sure what else has happened, but we have all something happening in our towns every night.  FIRE and EMS see this stuff all the time.  It may not be a bomb, or an explosion, but it may be the death of a couple teenagers following a massive car wreck, or a love-one died to early.  During times like these we must bond together and use the resources we have available to go through critical incident stress management.  We don't need to keep everything pent up inside of us driving some to potentially stress induced destructive behaviors that kill families, careers, and in some cases lives.  

Please get help if help is needed.  The resources are available if you simply ask.  Covering up or masking the signs can only make things worse.  We want to ensure that at the end of every day, our responders go home safe.  NFFF Everyone Goes Home

Take Care and Stay Safe
The Combomedic

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