'Miracle' baby found safe in Montana forest after being buried alive
NBC News
by Tim Stelloh
Jul.09.2018
"For all of us at the sheriff’s office, this is what we call a miracle," the sheriff's office said. "For the officers who were present for this event, it’s especially hard knowing what this small baby endured in the last 24 hours."
A 5-month-old baby who was buried in a Montana forest for at least seven hours was found in the middle of the night Sunday, officials in Missoula said Monday.
The infant was in good condition at a hospital after being left alone for "several hours," the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
A man who was supposed to be taking care of the infant, Francis Carlton Crowley, 32, was arrested for criminal endangerment, authorities said. Additional charges were expected. It wasn't clear what Crowley's relationship is to the child or who the boy's mother is.
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Chicago officer kills himself in police station parking lot, officials say
Chicago Tribune
Peter Nickeas
Julu 10, 2018
A Chicago police officer killed himself in the parking lot of the Calumet District police station Sunday night, according to authorities.
A spokesman for the Chicago Police Department confirmed the death Monday.
The officer, a 36-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the police station about 7:30 p.m.
He shot himself in a patrol car with his service weapon, according to authorities. An autopsy Monday ruled his death a suicide.
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Air Force veteran kills himself after shooting wife, triplet daughters
Air Force Times
By: Charlsy Panzino
23 hours ago
An Air Force veteran killed himself after shooting his wife and three of their daughters in Alabama on Saturday, according to authorities.
An Air Force veteran in Alabama shot and killed his wife and one of their daughters.
(File photo)
Robert Orsi was upset after his wife, Charlene — who also served in the Air Force — filed for divorce, the Alabama News Network reported.
The Elmore County Sheriff’s Office posted on its Facebook page that the divorce was over Robert Orsi’s alleged drug use.
Orsi allegedly shot and killed his wife under their carport, then went inside their home and lined up his 12-year-old triplet daughters on the floor to shoot them. One was killed, but two survived.
Orsi’s 13-year-old daughter escaped and called 911 from a neighbor’s house, according to WEAR-TV.
After the shootings, Orsi doused the home with gasoline and set it on fire, but he didn’t see that two of his 12-year-old daughters made it out of the house, even with multiple gunshot wounds. The third 12-year-old was found dead in the house, along with Orsi.
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Department of Defense Suicide Prevention Office just released the 1st Quarter suicide report for 2018.
QSR Data
Attachment A provides a detailed breakdown of the number of deaths by suicide, within each
Service and Component.
For the 1st Quarter of 2018, the Military Services reported the
following:
80 suicide deaths in the Active Component
18 suicide deaths in the Reserves
23 suicide deaths in the National Guard
The number of Active Component suicide deaths is greater, by 5, in the 1st Quarter of 2018,
compared to the 1st Quarter of 2017
(80 versus 75 deaths)
Read the report and look at the chart on the last page.
Then look at the numbers of those killed in action during those same years.
I am sure I do not have to add another word to what you find.
The question is, what are you going to do with what you just learned?
The other victims: First responders to horrific events often suffer in solitude
Tampa Bay Times
By Heidi de Marco, Kaiser Health News
Published: July 9, 2018
The "first responders" who provide emergency aid have been hit hard not just by recent large-scale disasters but by the accumulation of stress and trauma over many years, research shows. Many studies have found elevated rates of post-traumatic stress disorder among nurses, firefighters and paramedics. A 2016 report by the International Association of Fire Fighters found that firefighters and paramedics are exhibiting levels of PTSD similar to that of combat veterans.
Medical personnel tend to a victim after the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. The "first responders" who provide emergency aid have been hit hard not just by recent large-scale disasters but by the accumulation of stress and trauma over many years, research shows. [Sun Sentinel]
The day a gunman fired into a crowd of 22,000 people at the country music festival in Las Vegas, hospital nursing supervisor Antoinette Mullan was focused on one thing: saving lives.
She recalls dead bodies on gurneys across the triage floor, a trauma bay full of victims. But "in that moment, we’re not aware of anything else but taking care of what’s in front of us," Mullan said.
Proud as she was of the work her team did, she calls it "the most horrific evening of my life" — the culmination of years of searing experiences she has tried to work through, mostly on her own.
"I can tell you that after 30 years, I still have emotional breakdowns and I never know when it’s going to hit me," said Mullan.
Calamities seem to be multiplying in recent years, including mass shootings, fires, hurricanes and mudslides. Just last month, a gunman burst into the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., killing five journalists and injuring two others.
Many of the men and women who respond to these tragedies have become heroes and victims at once. Some firefighters, emergency medical providers, law enforcement officers and others say the scale, sadness and sometimes sheer gruesomeness of their experiences haunt them, leading to tearfulness and depression, job burnout, substance abuse, relationship problems, even suicide.
Many, like Mullan, are stoic, forgoing counseling even when it is offered.
"I don’t have this sense that I need to go and speak to someone," said Mullan. "Maybe I do, and I just don’t know it."
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