Injured Ketchikan Motorcyclist Medevaced to Seattle with Serious Injuries

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Injured Ketchikan Motorcyclist Medevaced to Seattle with Serious Injuries

  Alaska State Troopers received multiple reports of a motorcycle accident on the South Tongass Highway on Tuesday afternoon and responded to the location. When they arrived at the scene at mile three, they found the victim, identified as 30-year-old Robert Young, trapped beneath a vehicle. Personnel with the South Tongass Volunteer Fire Department were […]

13 Exposed to Cesium-137 at Seattle’s UW Medicine’s Harborview Medical Center Research and Training Building

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13 Exposed to Cesium-137 at Seattle’s UW Medicine’s Harborview Medical Center Research and Training Building

  13 people in Seattle were exposed to Cesium-137 at a Seattle medical research center on Thursday while a piece of equipment was being decommissioned and moved at the facility authorities report. Cesium-137 is a radioactive talcum powder-like substance that can cause serious burns, serious radiation sickness and even death with exposure to larger amounts.  […]