Quotes About Emergency

First responders are a resilient lot. They deal with many types of situations and are very good at improvisation in their work.

Quite simply, when D.C. Metro riders - often the first to see a problem developing - try to notify first responders, they frequently are unable to receive a signal strong enough to make a simple call to 9-1-1 to report the emergency.

Torture remains unacceptable and unjustified at all times, including during states of emergency, political instability, or even in a war.

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.

Priority Practice planning was a sacred time. It was always at the same time of day, in the morning, and was never interrupted except for emergencies.

He can't shake the feeling that some emergency is heading towards him, someone is in danger, and he needs to keep all his wits about him to have a chance of fixing things.

Oh, God," Shannon moans. "We have to boil water," I tell Kenny. "She wants Cup-a-Soup?" "No, it's to sterilize things." "What's that?" I start rummaging through my house looking for anything useful. I get a knife, scissors, salad tongs, clothespins, a bottle of whiskey. Kenny

A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.

I've got 911 on speed dial.

Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency.

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

Each year, millions of skiers come to Colorado to experience its superb emergency medical facilities.

Hurricane Katrina reiterated the need for [access to] medical records, ... ... But there's going to be a lot more needed than $4 million.

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.

If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

She's in shock. Keep her head low and her legs high

The rest of the day is spent, by Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse and the rest of the Navy, grappling with the fact that many two-dimensional structures on this and other ships, which were put into place to prevent various fluids from commingling (e.g. fuel and air) have holes in them, and not only that but a lot of shit is on fire too and things are more than a little smoky. Certain objects that are supposed to (a) remain horizontal and (b) support heavy things have ceased to do either.

To avert a clear and present danger of descent into lawlessness, the leadership of the House of Representatives took the bold and decisive action of convening the first ever Emergency session on a Sunday (8th January 2012), and

the crisis prompted the issue of emergency paper money: in Britain, £1 and 10s Treasury notes; in the United States, the emergency currency that banks were authorized to issue under the Aldrich-Vreeland Act of 1908.46 Then, as now, the authorities reacted to a liquidity crisis by printing money.

Responding to a natural disaster is a complex problem.

Ladies, gentlemen, we're out of here! Your boss is upstairs, and only mildly wounded. Go help him if you have the inclination. You'll also notice the house is on fire. Make of that what you like.