Quotes About Emergency

...He palmed up the life Alert. Death Alert was more like it: Help, I haven't fallen and I'm standing up-can you come and rectify this problem? - Isaac

Never do anything that you don't want to have to explain to 9-1-1 personnel.

Houston, we've had a problem here. Houston, we've had a problem.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

Follow the suggestion of Dr. Caroline Bauer and post a reminder sign by your door: "Don't Forget Your Flood Book." Analogous to emergency rations in case of natural disasters, "flood" books should be taken along in the car or even stored like spares in the trunk. A few chapters from these books can be squeezed into traffic jams on the way to the beach or long waits at the doctor's office.

As the plane nears 2,000 feet, the aircraft's sensors detect the fast-approaching surface and trigger a new alarm. There's no time left to build up speed by pushing the plane's nose forward into a dive. The pilot: "This can't be happening!" "But what's happening?" "Ten degrees of pitch…" Exactly 1.4 seconds later, the cockpit voice recorder stops.

The immense light. A state of inner emergency and waiting...This luminosity does not negate reason or any rational sense. It simply exists. A kind of poetic sensibility open to the world. To everything--grand and small.

And the things we girls need because no one wants to run out of those supplies in the middle of a blizzard.

I don't know any group of professionals that mobilize as fast and as often as chefs do when there are people who are in need.

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

In case there's a fire or a flood, or any act of God.

I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, 'Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.'

I'll just tell you, I'm not a big FEMA fan.

You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.

It's not a party until the fire department shows up.

I did ride-alongs and did some firefighter training at the Chicago Fire Academy.

Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

Weve got a police system who protect us, weve got firemen who put out fires. Weve got defence, man. Thats what tax is for.

I want to see the free movement of our ambos being able to get to and from where they need to be, I need our firies out fighting fires, and I need our police out doing their job as well.

Having worked in disasters, I have seen that, in those critical first few hours, those first few days - so much ends up riding on you and your neighbor and whoever is around. The official response always comes later, and it always feels like it comes too slow.

Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?

I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.

One of the tensions in XR are people who want to slow down and be strategic and then people who think it's an emergency, let's get out on the street now. There have been conflicts and disagreements.