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At the recent HALO Counterterrorism Summit, the “cut suit” medical simulator was used in a counterterrorism training demonstration. “Hyper-realistic” Training The cut suit allows first responders to use the full range of their kits, practicing multiple procedures in one training. Photo Bob Graham View the full article

Ohio Task Force 1 members turn in communications equipment Wednesday after returning to the group's Kettering headquarters following a mission helping with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. View the full article

Saves included about 10 people trapped by water. View the full article

City expects $3M loss of annual revenue. Mayor said shared services will never be off the table View the full article

The EMT and his colleague were trying to treat the patient when he became violent. View the full article

Director Steven Kuhr had called a crew to remove a fallen tree from his driveway. View the full article

Homes plunged back into darkness and near freezing temperatures. Waves crash into a seawall and buildings along the coast in Hull, Mass., Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. A high-wind warning is in effect in the state until Wednesday night, with gusts of up to 60 mph expected in some costal areas, and 50 mph gusts expected for Boston and western Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) View the full article

She survived with only minor injuries. View the full article

The mower driver became so choked with grief that his fiancee called for two ambulances. View the full article

The 2-year-old boy fell from a wooden railing overlooking the painted dogs exhibit Sunday. View the full article

Hackensack University Medical Center is preparing to dispatch a team to operate the MSED unit currently stationed at Ocean Medical Center in Brick, N.J. View the full article

FEMA reports 95,000 people eligible for emergency housing assistance. A sign warning against looting is posted in the Nejecho Beach neighborhood of Brick, N.J. Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, after the area suffered serious damage from last week's storm surge from Superstorm Sandy. Brick is ordering mandatory evacuations in advance of an approaching nor'easter. Residents in the low-lying waterfront sections of Brick Township have been told to leave their homes by 6 p.m. Tuesday. Those areas are prone to flooding and storm surges. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) View the full article

Honeywell Humanitarian Relief Fund to provide aid to local employees affected by Hurricane Sandy. View the full article

The wounded include the gunman, who's in extremely critical condition. View the full article

Current figures suggest that around 2% of 'heart attacks' each year will, in fact, be broken heart syndrome. View the full article

9/11 site was closed after Hurricane Sandy flooded the WTC site. Sandbags remain around the perimeter of the World Trade Center Memorial and construction site after the memorial was closed by flooding in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in New York. Joe Daniels, president of the Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum, said that water that rushed into the site has been pumped out and the memorial will reopen to the public Tuesday. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) View the full article

Many in New York and New Jersey are urged to go to warming centers. Residents line up for bundles of food at an American Red Cross station in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012 in New York. The region is still cleaning up a week after Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) View the full article

Crews had to cut away iron bars from a fence to rescue the man. View the full article

New and continuing members will begin their terms on January 1, 2013. View the full article

"You cannot go home, you will be put on charges,” The city's emergency medical system, the paramedic said "is going to crash. Everybody knows it. We all talk about it. It's going to crash and there's no predicting who's going be in its way." (MyFoxDC photo) View the full article

Sprinklers quickly contained the fire on the sixth floor. View the full article

The technology allows responders to transmit real-time data about heart attack patients to doctors. View the full article

Prosthetic leg responds to electrical impulses in the muscles. Zac Vawter's stands on his bionic leg after he arriving on the 103rd floor of Willis Tower, becoming the first person ever to complete the task wearing the mind-controlled prosthetic limb, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012 in Chicago. Vawter, who lost his right leg in a motorcycle accident, put the smart limb on public display for the first time during an annual stair-climbing charity event called ìSkyRise Chicagoî hosted by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, where he is receiving treatment. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford) View the full article

Tens of thousands of people will need to find other places to stay. A woman scavenges a sack of onions discarded by a Coney Island supermarket in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012 in New York. Many people in Coney Island are still living without heat, and some without electricity, six days after Sandy struck the region. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) View the full article

Boy fell into a wild African dog exhibit and was immediately attacked. This photo taken Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012 shows the exterior view of the front entrance of the Pittsburgh Zoo, where zoo officials say a young boy was killed after he fell into the exhibit that was home to a pack of African painted dogs, who pounced on the boy and mauled him. It’s not clear whether he died from the fall or the attack, said Barbara Baker, president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium. (AP Photo/John Heller) View the full article