Quotes About Emergency

However, further limitations on emergency authorities, especially if combined with a rollback of the orderly liquidation authority itself, would leave the Fed and other agencies without essential tools to respond to the next crisis.

And while the FDIC had emergency authority to wind down failing commercial banks in a swift and orderly fashion, no one had the authority to step in to avoid a chaotic bankruptcy of a major nonbank, to inject capital into a nonbank, or to guarantee its liabilities.

we had no means of saving the firm.

But in my heart I knew that use of our emergency authority could only be justified when it served the broad public interest.

Our emergency liquidity lending took many novel forms.

thereby serving as lender of last resort.

The benzodiazepines (especially IM lorazepam) are used to manage substance induced and psychotic agitation in the emergency department. Benzodiazepines have been used instead of amobarbital (Amytal) for drug-assisted interviewing.

Why would you codify a set of safeguards you might want to change as technology evolves and you face new risks of privacy, in addition to changing safeguards that might need to be relaxed in an emergency situation?

If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

You get a compound fracture in Colorado where I live, and you can probably be in a hospital within a matter of hours, certainly within a day.

I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.

In a hospital, there's a lot of high-energy, seat-of-your-pants, in-the-moment things that need to be done.

There are places in the world that the power goes out in hospitals, and there isn't clean water, and it's horrific.

I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.

Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?

We put in hundreds of hours at SpaceX, studied over 90 different kinds of training guides and manuals and lessons to learn how to fly the fly the Dragon and what to do in emergency situations.

Fiske spoke sharply to the four walls. We need medical attention immediately. We have a gunshot wound that requires treatment. You're not going to get through to them by talking like an English professor, scoffed Reagan. Hey! she bawled. Get a doctor down here! She's in pain, thanks to you! What are you going to do about it?

Be the Ambulance. Make toast.

Will on the phone, the sooner you stop bleeding." Hickey dialed a number and

mother says her son turned blue and she was unable to revive him. Father was at home and made the call for emergency aid. Both parents reported that such an incident had never

We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States.

We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.

Despite the intended purpose of 911 fees, some states have diverted these resources to nonrelated or, worse yet, nonpublic safety purposes.

It wasn't until I was injured at the gym - resulting in an emergency room visit and bill of $4,000 - that I realized the cost of forgoing health insurance. I was fine, but it took me more than a year to pay off that bill. That hurt worse than the injury itself.