Dave Statter

Dispatches from the rabbit hole from a senile, crazy gadfly who--in his more lucid moments--provides fire and EMS news. @STATter911 also on BlueSky & Threads.

[Dave Statter @STATter911]

@FitzFox5DC @Dulles_Airport @wmata @wmataGM @Commanders And a warning to all: The passenger pushing you aside, fighting their way to the exit door as it arrives at the new stadium for its first Springsteen concert will be the man who came up with this idea.

[Dave Statter @STATter911]

Clarendon Tonight: Getting an early start on the weekend, yet another woman was found a short time ago ill in the bathroom of a Clarendon nightspot. The initial report is she was unconscious. This time it was Spider Kelly's. What is happening in the women's bathrooms at 4 or 5 Clarendon establishments that causes so many woman to drop? @VirginiaABC, if you really are about public safety, shouldn't you investigate? It's astounding that the amount of EMS use by customers of these bars is not a major warning sign that something's amiss. #arlingtonva #clarendon
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[Capital Weather @capitalweather]

Four tornadoes struck Maryland on Tuesday, all happening within 6 minutes!

2 in Anne Arundel County
2 in Talbot County

Find out the details here and also see video: https://t.co/T3fI0LJRGh

[Tom Sherwood @tomsherwood]

“…temporary traffic impacts..?”the Natl Mall area already is being gummed up to prepare the site and the race itself is weeks away.

[Dave Statter @STATter911]

I have long been teaching emergency managers to try to point out "this is what we know" and "this is what we don't know." I learned it from re-watching newsman Bill Ryan on NBC the day of JFK's assasination. He did that throughout the day. I tried to adapt it to my own live reporting of significant incidents.

[Dave Statter @STATter911]

I watched these commercials as a young child during Henson's "Sam and Friends" on WRC-TV in DC and then WBAL-TV in Baltimore at the end of the local news. The commercials for Wilkins and then Esskay were probably the first advertisements in my memory bank because of his puppets and his humor. I was too old for Sesame Street, so this is the era of Henson I connected with, up through watching him on Jimmy Dean's ABC show.

[Dave Statter @STATter911]

I think you made an excellent point about communication. It's one I am going to steal from you in the work I do. I would just like to see a serious look - with as little of the political BS as possible - at how to do all of it better next time. Everything else, including trying to lock up emergency managers (at any level), hurts our readiness.

[Dave Statter @STATter911]

Then Congress should do real oversight and not performative political BS. I am 100 percent certain serious mistakes were made during the pandemic. And the one you point out may be a significant one. How you communicate during a crisis is crucial.

The handling of any large scale emergency - and this was among the largest - will always have serious errors. People may even die from those mistakes, despite the best of intentions. There were plans at various health agencies, federal, state, and local. But none had been truly tested on this level.

Instead of trying to play gotcha and jam people up with criminal charges, conduct a real, non-political after-action review and report that gets this country ready for the next one. The mission of a hearing like this should be to follow up on that review and report. Use the NTSB model. When it's done put all of the leaders on the hot seat in front of Congress and focus on what needs to change before the next one, so that Congress can provide those resources.

This hearing was an enormous waste of everyone's time except those on both sides saying, "I told you so." Stop making our health and safety a political football and elect leaders who actually care about our survival. Done right, it's possible we could even learn that Fauci actually agrees with you that he could have communicated much better.

[MWAA Professional Firefighters - L3217 @Local3217]

Instead of focusing on distractions and political optics, MWAA leadership should focus on some of the people who keep this airport operational 24/7. If MWAA can find $22 billion for concrete, steel, & glass, it can find the commitment to invest in its firefighters & paramedics

[Dave Statter @STATter911]

@TheInfinitvov @_LA_Merc @OUC_DC @RealAlexSGabor @SeattleFire It makes it look like I am arguing with myself. I am not sure why @_LA_Merc comments were removed. While I disagree with him, as I recall, it's not the kind of comments I would block. It wasn't even close.

[Dave Statter @STATter911]

Radio traffic from response to Sen. Graham’s home: Emergency radio traffic indicates that Senator Lindsey Graham suffered chest pains before going into cardiac arrest Saturday night. Efforts to revive the South Carolina lawmaker were not successful. Graham died two days after his 71st birthday.

This is the second time within a month that the DC Fire & EMS Department was dispatched to the Capitol Hill home of a Republican U.S. Senator reported to be in cardiac arrest. The first was Senator Mitch McConnell from Kentucky on June 14th.

The radio traffic from https://t.co/DXLk3t0e9D indicates that the 911 caller last night was a woman in Baltimore. The crew from Engine 7 arrived and could not get anyone to answer the door. They apparently forced entry into the home. The radio traffic gives the impression that Senator Graham may not have immediately been in cardiac arrest when they arrived, but there is no confirmation of that information. Here’s the unofficial timeline for the call:

· 8:27:34 Engine 7 and Medic 7 (a paramedic ambulance) were dispatched to Graham’s home on South Capitol Street SE (I’ve omitted the street numbers).
· 8:32:34 Engine 7 requested a callback to get someone inside to open the locked front door.
· 8:33:34 (timestamp missing on video) Dispatcher reported that the caller said she was not in the home and the door is unlocked.
· 8:34:15 Dispatcher reported that the caller asked if they knocked on the door, believing the patient would answer. Engine 7 responded, “Yes. Repeatedly.”
· 8:35:05 Dispatcher said the caller is coming from Baltimore. The dispatcher asked Engine 7 if they would like a ladder truck company to force entry and asked about the need for DC Police. Engine 7 said they will need police, but they could handle forcing entry into the home.
· 8:53:28 Engine 7 reported CPR was in progress “now” and requested an EMS supervisor (standard on cardiac arrest calls).
· 8:54:00 EMS 6, an EMS supervisor, was dispatched.
· 9:13:41 Battalion Chief 2 told the dispatcher to attach him to the run with Engine 7 (this is not routine on most cardiac arrest calls and is likely an indication of who the patient was).
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[Dave Statter @STATter911]

@EmoPhilips A pro would have had a chain saw.

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

Long before his name was on a guitar, Les Paul was quietly rebuilding his own equipment to solve a problem nobody else was trying to fix. What that says about tools, patience, and building what you need, is here: https://t.co/FNa2mYLfYJ

[MyDrone.Pro @MyDronePro]

Brookeville, MD - Numerous trees are down in the area due to the strong winds, this one off of Brighton Dam Rd. #MdWx #Wx @capitalweather @MeteoMdWX @JustinWeather @WashingtonianWx

[Dave Statter @STATter911]

Early video from an Ohio house fire.
https://t.co/tzlHBLuBqG #firefighters

[Kris Van Cleave @krisvancleave]

Boeing tells CBS News: “Boeing issued guidance to operators on this in December, 2025. We support the FAA making that guidance mandatory.”

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

This is what a hero looks like.

A young lifeguard rescues a 10-year old boy while being punished by powerful waves in California.

What an incredible display of courage and determination.

[Dave Statter @STATter911]

The best thing about my work with https://t.co/XsIaoDK5Vc (formerly SafetyVid) is getting to know @theguardrailguy, Steve Eimers. I've written before how this wonderful, caring man has turned his family's tragedy into an important campaign to make our roads safer. Of course, there is so much I didn't know about Steve and his journey. Charles Bethea fills in a lot of those holes in this emotional and important profile of Steve for @NewYorker. Please read it: https://t.co/RvF5xZnsPB

[The Real Guardrail Guy @theguardrailguy]

I really like this line from the @NewYorker feature piece about me last week. Pick up a print copy at Barnes and Noble. July 27 edition.

[Dave Statter @STATter911]

I just finished. All I can say is, wow! I've tried to explain what I knew of your journey to my wife. Now, I am making her read this. Of course it's really not for me to say, since I didn't know your wonderful daughter, but I can't imagine Hannah being anything but enormously proud of her dad. You are saving lives, Steve! On your next trip to DC, don't you dare leave before we take you to dinner. As you know, I live within site of those closest guardrails to the White House.