Blame who for the Tsunami Diaster? - Technical Rescue Magazine

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ALAN (AL) BANNON It is with immense sadness that we announce the Line of Duty death of our friend and colleague Al Bannon on 7th April 2010. Al was an original member of the Technical Rescue Unit upon who's work this magazine was founded. He was a wholetime firefighter with Hampshire Fire & Rescue Service (UK) and died along with colleague James Shears while tackling a blaze in a high rise block of flats in Southampton. He will be hugely missed by all of us and our heartfelt condolensces go out to Al's wife Charlotte, daughter Abi, Lin and Keith, Mum & Dad and all family and friends.

NOTICEBOARD

ALAN (AL)
BANNON
It is with immense sadness
that we announce the Line
of Duty death of our friend
and colleague Al Bannon
on 7th April 2010.
Al was an original member of
the Technical Rescue Unit
upon who's work this
magazine was founded.
He was a wholetime
firefighter with Hampshire
Fire & Rescue Service (UK)
and died along with colleague
James Shears while tackling
a blaze in a high rise block
of flats in Southampton.
He will be hugely missed by
all of us and our heartfelt
condolensces go out to Al's
wife Charlotte, daughter Abi,
Lin and Keith, Mum & Dad
and all family and friends.

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Blame who for the Tsunami Diaster?

ollowing the 26 December 2004 tsunamis around the Indian Ocean, much attention focused on the scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawai'i. Questions were asked about what they did and, in particular, did not do in order to warn countries that a tsunami was imminent.
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