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Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
Code 1: A time critical event with response requiring lights and siren. This usually is a known and going fire or a rescue incident. Code 2: Unused within the Country Fire Authority. Code 3: Non-urgent event, such as a previously extinguished fire or community service cases (such as animal rescue or changing of smoke alarm batteries for the ...
Steamboat sank due to boiler explosion; fatalities estimated. Deadliest maritime disaster in U.S. history 1,021 1904 PS General Slocum: Accident – shipwreck: East River near New York City: Steamship sank due to fire on board. Deadliest maritime disaster in New York City, and deadliest in city's history until 2001. 1,000–2,000 1893
Ascension St. Vincent Randolph Hospital, a small rural facility in Winchester, handled a fierce tornado with no deaths, thanks to a plan and friends. The night a small hospital faced down an F3 ...
A 33-year-old man was transported from Multnomah County to a hospital in Portland where he died; an 84-year-old man was found in outer Northeast Portland; and two others, ages 64 and 75, were ...
Code Brown[edit] On February 21, 2007, Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada issued a Code Brown for a potential spill. According to the wiki article, a Code Brown usually denotes external disaster, but I think hazardous spill should be added to that list.
Toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering Plan. Toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering Plan have the area code prefix 800, 833, 844, 855, 866, 877, and 888. Additionally, area codes 822, 880 through 887, and 889 are reserved for toll-free use in the future. 811 is excluded because it is a special dialing ...
The Machchhu dam failure or Morbi disaster is a dam-related flood disaster which occurred on 11 August 1979. The Machchu-2 dam, situated on the Machchhu River, failed, sending a wall of water through the town of Morbi (now in the Morbi district) of Gujarat, India. [2] Estimates of the number of people killed vary greatly ranging from 1,800 to ...