Firefighter Autopsy Protocol - US Fire Administration - Federal ...
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■ <strong><strong>Fire</strong>fighter</strong> <strong>Autopsy</strong> <strong>Protocol</strong><br />
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I: Background ■<br />
State/<br />
Territory<br />
Type of System Title Deaths Investigated Contact Comment<br />
American<br />
Samoa<br />
Territorial Coroner<br />
No death investigation<br />
official.<br />
• Where any dead body is found.<br />
• By accidental means.<br />
• Allegedly caused by unlawful<br />
means.<br />
Malaetasi M. Cogafau<br />
Attorney General of<br />
American Samoa<br />
P.O. Box 7<br />
Pago Pago, AS 96799<br />
(684) 633-4163<br />
Pulenuu<br />
(village chief)<br />
reports deaths<br />
to the Attorney<br />
General,<br />
or, if necessary,<br />
to the<br />
Department<br />
of Medical<br />
Services’ local<br />
representative,<br />
who is authorized<br />
to act as<br />
Coroner and<br />
report findings<br />
to the Attorney<br />
General.<br />
Arizona<br />
County Medical<br />
Examiner<br />
County Medical<br />
Examiner<br />
• When not under current care of<br />
a physician for a potentially fatal<br />
illness.<br />
• When the attending physician<br />
is unavailable to sign the death<br />
certificate.<br />
• By violence.<br />
Philip E. Keen, M.D.<br />
Medical Examiner<br />
Maricopa County<br />
120 South Sixth Avenue<br />
Phoenix, AZ 85003<br />
(602) 506-3322<br />
Fax: (602) 506-1546<br />
• Of a prisoner or occurring in<br />
prison.<br />
• Occurring suddenly to a person<br />
in apparent good health.<br />
• By occupational disease or<br />
accident.<br />
• Where a public health hazard is<br />
presented.<br />
• Occurring during anesthetic or<br />
surgical procedures.<br />
• Occurring in a suspicious,<br />
unusual, or unnatural manner.<br />
Arkansas<br />
Mixed: State<br />
Medical Examiner<br />
and County<br />
Coroners/Medical<br />
Examiners<br />
County Coroner,<br />
State Medical<br />
Examiner<br />
• Death appears to be caused by<br />
violence, homicide, suicide, or<br />
accident.<br />
• Death appears to be the result<br />
of the presence of drugs or<br />
poisons.<br />
• Death appears to be the result<br />
of a motor vehicle accident or<br />
the body was found in or near a<br />
roadway or railroad.<br />
William Q. Sturner, M.D.<br />
State Medical Examiner<br />
P.O. Box 8500<br />
Little Rock, AR 72215<br />
(501) 227-5936<br />
Fax: (501) 221-1653<br />
Email: William.Sturner@<br />
ASCL.State.AR.<strong>US</strong>
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