Six NIOSH reports today! Take care of yourselves and be careful!

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. – Billy Graham

LODD’s:

F2005-16

Jan 21, 2004

Captain suffers an acute aortic dissection after responding to two alarms and subsequently dies due to hemopericardium – Pennsylvania.

F2004-08

Jan 21, 2004

Fire fighter suffers sudden cardiac death after emergency recall – Massachusetts.

F2003-24

Jan 21, 2003

Fire fighter suffers fatal heart attack while performing physical fitness training – Missouri.

F2002-30

Jan 21, 2002

Fire fighter suffers probable heart attack at condominium fire – South Carolina.

F2002-04

Jan 21, 2002

Motor-vehicle incident claims life of volunteer fire fighter – Ohio.

98-F04

Jan 21, 1998

Supermarket Fire Claims the Life of Volunteer Fire Fighter – West Virginia.

History by Historyplace.com:

January 21, 1793 – In the aftermath of the French Revolution, King Louis XVI of France was guillotined on the charge of conspiring with foreign countries for the invasion of France. During the Revolution, the King had attempted to flee to Austria for assistance. Ten months later, his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette, was also guillotined.

January 21, 1924 – Soviet Russian leader Vladimir Lenin died of a brain hemorrhage. He led the Bolsheviks to victory over the Czar in the October Revolution of 1917 and had then established the world’s first Communist government. Lenin’s body was placed in a tomb in Red Square in Moscow and was a much venerated national shrine until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

January 21, 1954 – The USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear powered submarine, was launched at Groton, Connecticut.

January 21, 1976 – The Concorde supersonic jet began passenger service with flights from London to Bahrain and Paris to Rio de Janeiro, cruising at twice the speed of sound (Mach 2) at an altitude up to 60,000 feet.