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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 ...
List of natural disasters by death toll. Global multihazard mortality risks and distribution (2005) for cyclones, drought, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes (excluding heat waves, snowstorms, and other deadly hazards). A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life ...
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 1893 Sea Islands hurricane: Tropical cyclone: Georgia, South Carolina: Fatalities estimated 1,000 1918 1918 Cloquet fire: Wildfire (rural) Minnesota: $7,300,000 918 1978 Jonestown: Mass murder ...
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
1,000 [72] 1634–1640 Wyandot people epidemic 1634–1640 Wyandot people, North America Smallpox and Influenza: 15,000–25,000 [73] 1637 London plague epidemic (part of the second plague pandemic) 1636–1637 London and Westminster, England Bubonic plague: 10,400 [74] Great Plague in the late Ming dynasty (part of the second plague pandemic ...
Subcategories. This category has the following 37 subcategories, out of 37 total. Lists of people by activity (5 C, 61 P) Lists of people by age (6 C, 2 P) Lists of people by association (3 C, 25 P) Lists of people by religion (11 C, 20 P) Lists of people by aspect of death (3 C, 10 P) Lists of people by ethnicity (29 C ...
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...