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A Southwest Airlines flight attendant allegedly held off using a defibrillator on a dying New Mexico man because of his hairy chest, his widow claims.
Jack Jordan, 62, suffered a heart attack while flying from Los Angeles to Albuquerque at the end of April.
His wife, Caroline Jordan, told KOAT that other passengers performed CPR, but she noticed that the on-board automated external defibrillator (AED), which shocks the heart to reestablish normal rhythms, was not being used. Someone else asked why this was.
“The female flight attendant that had been right up there with us said, ‘because his chest is too hairy,’” Jordan told the station.
Eventually, his chest was shaven and the device was hooked up, but Jordan said it was too late. Jack died at the Albuquerque International Sunport.
KOAT Jack Jordan, 62, died of a heart attack at the end of April.
KOAT Jack’s widow alleges that the potentially life-saving AED machine was not used right away because of her husband’s hairy chest.
KOAT The machine was used eventually, but Caroline Jordan said it was too late to save her husband’s life.
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“I don't expect the airlines or the flight attendants to be nurses or doctors, not anywhere close,” she said. “But in that kind of a circumstance, one of the first things they should be doing is getting that AED hooked up.”
The airlines told KOAT that is is looking into the situation.
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PHOENIX — The best way to explain a haboob is to say it is a tsunami of sand, in the sense that there is no stopping it or outrunning it. It is a supreme spectacle. The fierce winds that precede it make the leaves on palm trees stand as if they are hands waving an effusive goodbye, the sky darkens and the world takes the color of caramel as the dust swallows everything in its path.
Last week, a dense dust storm turned daytime into night in Palm Springs, Calif., “blowing so bad that I could not even see 20 feet in front of my Jeep,†Scott Pam, a local photographer, wrote on his Facebook page. The last haboob struck Phoenix in late July; streetlights came on as it rolled over the city’s center, even though it was still afternoon.
Coping with a haboob becomes a way of life in the Southwest, so frequent are dust storms in the region’s driest parts. But it takes time for newcomers to learn to pull to the side of the road and turn off the headlights at the first sign of such a storm.
On the road, visibility goes from normal to zero in seconds, and it is hard to prepare because the dust storms often strike with little warning. Children are taught what to do as early as preschool; a firefighter might visit a classroom to deliver the message “When there’s a dust storm, stop and stay in the car.â€
The Arizona Department of Transportation has run its “Pull Aside, Stay Alive†campaign for three years, though for the first time this year, it is going to stretch its public service announcements through the fall, as some of the deadliest dust storms of recent years have struck well past the end of summer.
“In simple terms,†said Ken Waters, warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Phoenix, dust storms happen “because you have a very strong wind moving out from a thunderstorm and a lot of dust lying around.â€
The largest one on record here happened on July 5, 2011, rising 5,000 to 8,000 feet and stretching about 50 miles, from Goodyear, Ariz., to the west, to Apache Junction, Ariz., to the east. A moist coat of dust on counters and floors is inevitable after a storm, big or small. And, no, it does not matter if windows and doors are tightly shut.
Summers in the Southwest are always punctuated by extremes: extreme heat, extreme dust and extreme rain. Last week, 4.6 inches of rain fell just outside of Phoenix, or almost three times as much rain as the metropolitan Phoenix region got all of last summer. In minutes, dried paths turned into gushing rivers, which flooded, dragged or damaged freeways, cars and homes. In other parts of the area, it only drizzled.
But it is the monster waves of dust that seem to generate the most drama — traveling hundreds of miles and rising thousands of feet into the sky, turning daytime into night. The blaring beeps of cellphone weather alerts might well be the soundtrack of the season, when dust coats and monsoons drench selectively.
Some dust storms are so huge that meteorologists had to reach into the driest corners of Iraq and Sudan to find an equivalent — and, in turn, to find a name that suits them: haboob. It is Arabic for “blowing,†which sort of describes what it feels like when those storms roll along.
Mr. Waters, the meteorologist, compared the experience of driving through one of them to that of “a pilot who is not trained on instruments and has to land the plane under heavy fog.†(He avoided using the word “haboob†to describe those vast dust storms, and the term has met some resistance in Arizona because of its Middle Eastern origin.)
Last October, three people lost their lives and 12 were hospitalized in multiple crashes involving 19 vehicles caught in a dust storm on Interstate 10 about 75 miles east of Phoenix. Almost at the same spot, in October 2011, one man died and 23 were injured in pileups also set off by a dust storm.
“What motorists sometimes fail to understand is that if they’re driving, they’ve got to slow down, get completely off the roadway, as far as they can go off the roadway, stop, take their foot off the brake, and turn off their hazard lights and any other lights in their car,†said Timothy Tait, a spokesman for the Transportation Department. Because the last thing they would want, he said, “is for other drivers to follow your lead, thinking you’re driving along when you have already stopped.â€
So the department has tried to spread safety tips in creative ways and through nontraditional channels, hoping that somehow the message will stick. Its #haboobhaiku contest is billed as “the one and only contest to mix an ancient form of poetry with dust storm safety,†and has drawn thousands of entries. (One recent submission reads, “You’re not a Jedi/This is not Tatooine, Luke/Pull over now, man.â€)
“We wanted people to really focus on driving behavior and tips,†Mr. Tait said. “And it seems like it’s easier to make those things stick if people are having fun.â€
A latest study reveals that a megadrought may hit Southwest U.S., which may last for over 30 years. The megadrought may be the worst in the last 2,000 years.
(Photo : Bert Kaufmann)
A recent study reveals that the Southwest region of the U.S. may experience megadrought, which may last for over 30 years.
Global warming is believed to be the cause of various climatic changes throughout the world. Researchers at the Cornell University reveal that global warming may take a toll on the Southwest area of the U.S., as there are about 20 percent to 50 percent chances of megadrought in the next century.
The researchers say that till mid-August this year, California has experienced severe drought and climatologists are not sure if the condition will improve in the near term. The research reveals that the extreme condition in Southwest U.S. is just a preview of how global warming is responsible for climatic changes on the planet.
"For the southwestern U.S., I'm not optimistic about avoiding real megadroughts," says Toby Ault, Cornell assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences and lead author of the paper. "As we add greenhouse gases into the atmosphere - and we haven't put the brakes on stopping this - we are weighting the dice for megadrought conditions."
Ault also suggests that states in the west and Southwest U.S. should understand the long-term effects of the megadrought and draw strategies, which will help them cope with and survive severe drought scenarios. Ault reveals that the megadrought is estimated to be the worst people have ever witnessed in the last 2,000 years. The drought may present challenges to the region's water resources, which is an important survival element.
The study indicates that even though states like Arizona, California and New Mexico are likely to face drought, other states like Idaho, Washington and Montana may encounter decreased drought by comparison.
The latest research suggests that the effects of global warming will be seen in other parts of the world as well. According to the research, southern Africa, the Amazon basin and Australia are also some regions that may experience megadrought.
According to a previous report, businesses and government agencies should understand and estimate the implications of climate changes and increase in weather. Increase in temperature in the Southwest, Midwest and Southeast U.S. may make it difficult for people to work in outdoor jobs such as the construction industry. Moreover, some regions may even get worse and may become totally unsuitable for outdoor work.
The study will be published in the upcoming issue of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate.
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A Southwest Airlines flight attendant allegedly held off using a defibrillator on a dying New Mexico man because of his hairy chest, his widow claims.
Jack Jordan, 62, suffered a heart attack while flying from Los Angeles to Albuquerque at the end of April.
His wife, Caroline Jordan, told KOAT that other passengers performed CPR, but she noticed that the on-board automated external defibrillator (AED), which shocks the heart to reestablish normal rhythms, was not being used. Someone else asked why this was.
“The female flight attendant that had been right up there with us said, ‘because his chest is too hairy,’” Jordan told the station.
Eventually, his chest was shaven and the device was hooked up, but Jordan said it was too late. Jack died at the Albuquerque International Sunport.
KOAT Jack Jordan, 62, died of a heart attack at the end of April.
KOAT Jack’s widow alleges that the potentially life-saving AED machine was not used right away because of her husband’s hairy chest.
KOAT The machine was used eventually, but Caroline Jordan said it was too late to save her husband’s life.
Previous Next
“I don't expect the airlines or the flight attendants to be nurses or doctors, not anywhere close,” she said. “But in that kind of a circumstance, one of the first things they should be doing is getting that AED hooked up.”
The airlines told KOAT that is is looking into the situation.
vtaylor@nydailynews.com
ON A MOBILE DEVICE? CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO.
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PHOENIX — The best way to explain a haboob is to say it is a tsunami of sand, in the sense that there is no stopping it or outrunning it. It is a supreme spectacle. The fierce winds that precede it make the leaves on palm trees stand as if they are hands waving an effusive goodbye, the sky darkens and the world takes the color of caramel as the dust swallows everything in its path.
Last week, a dense dust storm turned daytime into night in Palm Springs, Calif., “blowing so bad that I could not even see 20 feet in front of my Jeep,†Scott Pam, a local photographer, wrote on his Facebook page. The last haboob struck Phoenix in late July; streetlights came on as it rolled over the city’s center, even though it was still afternoon.
Coping with a haboob becomes a way of life in the Southwest, so frequent are dust storms in the region’s driest parts. But it takes time for newcomers to learn to pull to the side of the road and turn off the headlights at the first sign of such a storm.
On the road, visibility goes from normal to zero in seconds, and it is hard to prepare because the dust storms often strike with little warning. Children are taught what to do as early as preschool; a firefighter might visit a classroom to deliver the message “When there’s a dust storm, stop and stay in the car.â€
The Arizona Department of Transportation has run its “Pull Aside, Stay Alive†campaign for three years, though for the first time this year, it is going to stretch its public service announcements through the fall, as some of the deadliest dust storms of recent years have struck well past the end of summer.
“In simple terms,†said Ken Waters, warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Phoenix, dust storms happen “because you have a very strong wind moving out from a thunderstorm and a lot of dust lying around.â€
The largest one on record here happened on July 5, 2011, rising 5,000 to 8,000 feet and stretching about 50 miles, from Goodyear, Ariz., to the west, to Apache Junction, Ariz., to the east. A moist coat of dust on counters and floors is inevitable after a storm, big or small. And, no, it does not matter if windows and doors are tightly shut.
Summers in the Southwest are always punctuated by extremes: extreme heat, extreme dust and extreme rain. Last week, 4.6 inches of rain fell just outside of Phoenix, or almost three times as much rain as the metropolitan Phoenix region got all of last summer. In minutes, dried paths turned into gushing rivers, which flooded, dragged or damaged freeways, cars and homes. In other parts of the area, it only drizzled.
But it is the monster waves of dust that seem to generate the most drama — traveling hundreds of miles and rising thousands of feet into the sky, turning daytime into night. The blaring beeps of cellphone weather alerts might well be the soundtrack of the season, when dust coats and monsoons drench selectively.
Some dust storms are so huge that meteorologists had to reach into the driest corners of Iraq and Sudan to find an equivalent — and, in turn, to find a name that suits them: haboob. It is Arabic for “blowing,†which sort of describes what it feels like when those storms roll along.
Mr. Waters, the meteorologist, compared the experience of driving through one of them to that of “a pilot who is not trained on instruments and has to land the plane under heavy fog.†(He avoided using the word “haboob†to describe those vast dust storms, and the term has met some resistance in Arizona because of its Middle Eastern origin.)
Last October, three people lost their lives and 12 were hospitalized in multiple crashes involving 19 vehicles caught in a dust storm on Interstate 10 about 75 miles east of Phoenix. Almost at the same spot, in October 2011, one man died and 23 were injured in pileups also set off by a dust storm.
“What motorists sometimes fail to understand is that if they’re driving, they’ve got to slow down, get completely off the roadway, as far as they can go off the roadway, stop, take their foot off the brake, and turn off their hazard lights and any other lights in their car,†said Timothy Tait, a spokesman for the Transportation Department. Because the last thing they would want, he said, “is for other drivers to follow your lead, thinking you’re driving along when you have already stopped.â€
So the department has tried to spread safety tips in creative ways and through nontraditional channels, hoping that somehow the message will stick. Its #haboobhaiku contest is billed as “the one and only contest to mix an ancient form of poetry with dust storm safety,†and has drawn thousands of entries. (One recent submission reads, “You’re not a Jedi/This is not Tatooine, Luke/Pull over now, man.â€)
“We wanted people to really focus on driving behavior and tips,†Mr. Tait said. “And it seems like it’s easier to make those things stick if people are having fun.â€
A latest study reveals that a megadrought may hit Southwest U.S., which may last for over 30 years. The megadrought may be the worst in the last 2,000 years.
(Photo : Bert Kaufmann)
A recent study reveals that the Southwest region of the U.S. may experience megadrought, which may last for over 30 years.
Global warming is believed to be the cause of various climatic changes throughout the world. Researchers at the Cornell University reveal that global warming may take a toll on the Southwest area of the U.S., as there are about 20 percent to 50 percent chances of megadrought in the next century.
The researchers say that till mid-August this year, California has experienced severe drought and climatologists are not sure if the condition will improve in the near term. The research reveals that the extreme condition in Southwest U.S. is just a preview of how global warming is responsible for climatic changes on the planet.
"For the southwestern U.S., I'm not optimistic about avoiding real megadroughts," says Toby Ault, Cornell assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences and lead author of the paper. "As we add greenhouse gases into the atmosphere - and we haven't put the brakes on stopping this - we are weighting the dice for megadrought conditions."
Ault also suggests that states in the west and Southwest U.S. should understand the long-term effects of the megadrought and draw strategies, which will help them cope with and survive severe drought scenarios. Ault reveals that the megadrought is estimated to be the worst people have ever witnessed in the last 2,000 years. The drought may present challenges to the region's water resources, which is an important survival element.
The study indicates that even though states like Arizona, California and New Mexico are likely to face drought, other states like Idaho, Washington and Montana may encounter decreased drought by comparison.
The latest research suggests that the effects of global warming will be seen in other parts of the world as well. According to the research, southern Africa, the Amazon basin and Australia are also some regions that may experience megadrought.
According to a previous report, businesses and government agencies should understand and estimate the implications of climate changes and increase in weather. Increase in temperature in the Southwest, Midwest and Southeast U.S. may make it difficult for people to work in outdoor jobs such as the construction industry. Moreover, some regions may even get worse and may become totally unsuitable for outdoor work.
The study will be published in the upcoming issue of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate.
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