June 2014 Website

AHLS announces the publication of the 4th edition of the Advanced Hazmat Life Support Provider Manual with updated material, photos, illustrations and data.

The updated AHLS Provider Manual, edited by Frank G. Walter, MD, includes

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   Beautiful color palette, photos
   
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   Images and tables throughout
   
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   Closely follows the PowerPoint slide presentation
   
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   Common graphics for Primary Survey and Resuscitation; Poisoning Treatment Paradigm™
   

The AHLS Provider Course and its accompanying Provider Manual is part of a two day, 16 hour course that prepares healthcare professionals in the medical management of patients exposed to hazardous materials. AHLS has trained over 15,000 health care professionals, representing 64 countries, around the world.

Purchase a copy for $175 plus shipping through the AHLS website, www.ahls.org
Italy seized 'weapons of mass destruction' parts

Source: http://www.thelocal.it/20140617/weapons-materials-founds-in-la-spezia

The materials, addressed to a non-existent Lebanese company, were found in nine containers on a merchant ship from China and were destined for use in Syria, the Italian news agency ANSA reported on Tuesday.

The shipment, valued at several million euros, contained steel parts that are usually used to make heavy weapons, the agency said. They were due to be transported overland to Syria via Libya.
Skunk Riot Control Copter

Source: http://www.desert-wolf.com/dw/products/unmanned-aerial-systems/skunk-riot-control-copter.html

The current hopper capacity of 4000 balls and with a High Pressure Carbon Fiber Air system it allows for real stopping power. Bright strobe lights, blinding Lasers and with on-board speakers enables communication and warnings to the crowd.

Equipped with a FLIR Thermal camera, full HD video colour camera, on board recording, full telemetry data link and long range control link, this unit is unique.

The powerful Octa copters can also be operated in formation by a single operator. The Desert Wolf Pangolin ground control station is used for system management. What makes the Pangolin unique is the operator and his team are also under full video and audio surveillance. Every move, every decision, every command is recorded.

He can also set the releasing frequency of each marker from as low as 1 ball per second up to 20 balls per second. If all markers releases at maximum rate, the you disperse 80 balls per second. This high frequency will only be used in an extreme "Life threatening situation".

The system also has a number of safety systems and features. Desert Wolf will continue to improve the design and ensure a safe and reliable product. Our aim is to assist in preventing another Marikana, we were there and it should never happen again.

Iraqi rebels seize chemical weapon factory

June 20 – Sunni radicals in Iraq, who have overrun a swathe of territory north of Baghdad in a lightning offensive, have taken control of one of Saddam Hussein's former chemical weapons factories, a US official says.

"We are aware the that the ISIS has occupied the Al Muthanna complex," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement.

But she said she didn't think the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) militants would be able to produce usable chemical weapons there, because any materials remaining are old and unwieldy.