Live Coverage of Colorado Springs-area Wildfire

In case you have family- friends or other interests in the Colorado Springs CO-area and you are concerned about the large wildfire- KRDO TV-13 is streaming their live broadcast of the "Waldo Canyon Fire" at this following URL:




http://www.krdo.com/news/WATCH-LIVE-KRDO-NewsChannel-13/-/417220/14776454/-/12eydmxz/-/index.html




May The Great Spirit keep affected residents and the many- many fire crews safe and well!

CSW BREAKING: Multi-Vehicle Crash on I-635 in Kansas City KS

Northbound I-635 has been closed at State Avenue as a result of a reported "5-vehicle" crash there.

The initial call went out at 12:15 a.m. Thursday morning- with the first arriving fire truck reporting the number of vehicles involved and ordering "2 additional" ambulances.






As of 12:53 a.m.- only two injured were transported by ambulance- a "17-year-old male who was in a car that was being towed by another van and was rear-ended" and a "19-year-old male in the van that was towing" the other vehicle- according to KC-KS FD-EMS radio comms to a local medical trauma center.




Both the injured sounded to be non life-threatening to my EMT-trained ears.




Didn't hear anyone in the vehicle that rear-ended the towed car taken to a hospital- potentially bad news.

Northbound I-635 remains closed as of 1 a.m. with traffic being diverted onto the State Avenue exit.

Open Message to KC-MO Fire Dispatchers: Don't Hang Up on Someone Trying to HELP!

Yesterday at 3:05 p.m.- Kansas City MO Fire and EMS dispatchers sent SOUTH KC-MO fire companies to a reported wreck involving an overturned concrete truck at "Westbound I-435 and Woodland."




Immediately I'm thinking- "where the heck does Woodland meet I-435 in south Kansas City?"




Responding Southland companies soon wondered the same thing over their radios.




There IS an interchange of I-435 and NORTH Woodland in Clay county- and shortly the KC-MO Police Shoal Creek Zone dispatch sends a car to that location to check.




Meanwhile- as the south KC-MO companies go looking in vain for the crash- I decide to call the KC-MO Fire dispatch non-emergency phone number.




I was TRYING to tell them that the Shoal Creek Zone cop HAD arrived at North Woodland and found the overturned truck "with the driver trapped- but conscious and talking" to the officer. 




Somewhere in the middle of my statement- the female dispatcher hangs up on me!




Shortly- fire dispatch sends ONE fire company to North Woodland- and- at 3:13 p.m. or a full eight (8) minutes after the initial crash dispatch to the (wrong) south location- an ambulance is dispatched.




Meanwhile- the Northland officer on the scene is wondering where the HELL the fire and EMS units are.




Kansas City MO citizens would not believe the fire and EMS dispatch screw-ups I have heard over the past several months since the new radio system was brought online and the fire dispatch center moved to the former MAST headquarters building near I-435 and Eastwood Trafficway.




After my experience yesterday- I won't be wasting my time to help-out the fire & EMS dispatchers as I sit back- listen and document these incredible screw-ups.

CSW BREAKING: Crash Involving Motorcycle on I-435 East of I-435 in Overland Park

This was reported at 10:11 a.m. as being "eastbound I-435 about 1/4-mile west of Quivira" and it involves a motorcyclist struck.




A KC Scout traffic shows all but the far outside lane (shoulder lane) open to traffic as police- fire and EMS units have arrived.




At 10:19 a.m.- emergency unit on-scene reports the "male" cyclist has serious to critical injuries- but the man was "conscious and talking" to the EMS crew.




At 10:28 a.m.- the patient was being transported to nearby Overland Park Regional Medical Center.




All but the "fast lane" of  eastbound I-435 had re-opened as of 10:35 a.m..

Worker Critically Injured by Loose Hose Coupling

I didn't hear where this incident occurred- but around 10 a.m. Tuesday morning- the  medical report of a man apparently hurt at a worksite was monitored here at CSW...




It happened somewhere in the eastern part of Kansas City KS- when- according to the KC-KS FD-EMS report the man "was struck in the head by a hose coupling that came loose."




The paramedic reported that the coupling "weighed 25-30 pounds" and the man was "knocked out" and remained unconscious during his ride to the University of Kansas Medical Center.




The man's condition was considered critical.

Murder in Gladstone MO

At 11: 40 p.m. Monday night- a "man in his 20's" who had been gruesomely stabbed several times was driven to Kansas City MO Fire Station 38 at 8100 North Oak.




Firefighter-EMTs at 38's (one of my old duty stations) treated the gravely-injured man and a paramedic-EMS unit transported him to Liberty Hospital- where the victim passed-away.




The subsequent police investigation revealed the man had actually been stabbed in a residence in Gladstone- in the area of Northwest 64th Street and North Wyandotte- nearly 2 miles south of Station 38.




I'm sure police were talking to the person who drove the victim to help- reportedly the victim's girlfriend - as the man who was stabbed was barely alive when the ambulance transported him to the hospital.




Early Wednesday- police identified the victim as "25-year-old Juan M. Orozco-Vargus from Mexico City, Mexico" and Gladstone Police also reported "a suspect in custody."

CSW BREAKING: Serious Injury Crash on I-35 Ramp in Olathe

The crash is reportedly "involving a motorcycle" on "the northbound I-35 ramp from Santa Fe/Clairborne."




One serious to critical injury (the cyclist) is reported in the 4:49 p.m. incident.

Shooting in Swope Park Sunday Morning

Kansas City MO police report a victim arrived at a Metro hospital with critical gunshot wounds around 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning.




Police report the male victim was possibly shot "at the Pavillion in Swope Park" and was apparently driven to the hospital.




Homicide detectives were being called to that hospital about an hour after the victim arrived.

CSW BREAKING: Young Man in Critical Condition After Old Northeast Kansas City MO Shooting

The latest gunplay in Killa City was in Old Northeast KC-MO around 4:45 a.m. Sunday morning.

The incident was in the 100 block of North White- near St. John- when two unknown-race/description males shot a "22-year-old man" multiple times- then the suspects drove toward St. John in a brown 4-door car.




The KC-MO fire department EMS unit transporting the victim reported at least five gunshot wounds- to the young mans "right flank" and "right leg-" and his condition was critical as he was enroute to a Metro medical trauma center.

Victim Has Critical Injuries After Multiple Stabbing in Kansas City KS

An about 50-year-old male was in critical condition after being stabbed at least a half-dozen times near 10th Street and Central in KC-KS around 12:25 a.m. Sunday morning.




The man was stabbed in the back & chest "by a large knife" a KC-KS FD-EMS unit said.




No suspect information was available.

Large Police Response Needed at KC-MO Power & Light District for Large Crowds of Youths

Dozens of Kansas City MO police officers from throughout the city responded to Downtown's Power & Light and Sprint Center area Sunday morning to "herd" crowds of 100 to 200 youths.




The incidents began around 12:54 a.m. near 13th Street and Walnut when a Center Zone officer requested an "assist-the-officer" call for "a large crowd of youths running westbound" from apparently a crime scene.




Reported by one police officer- "some function sponsored by the (KC-MO) school district" at the Sprint Center had "just let out."




The first officer reports "a male in custody" a couple of blocks away minutes later- with the rest of the crowd "scattered."




Several large groups of youth then appear at locations around Sprint Center.




At 1:24 a.m.- "all" the "off-duty KC-MO PD officers working security" in and around those venues (KC Live & Sprint) are called to "a surface parking lot at 13th Street and Grand" where "100 to 150" youths had gathered.


The crowds were dispersed "south" from the areas through 1:45 a.m..




There were two medical calls that could have been related to the roving crowds of youths.




One was a "traumatic injury" at "1310 Grand" at 1:29 a.m..  This person refused EMS transport.




The other was "an unconscious" person at "13th Street and Grand" reported at 1:49 a.m.. No disposition of that patient was heard.