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 />
Florida<br />
District Medical<br />
Examiner<br />
District Medical<br />
Examiner<br />
• By criminal violence.<br />
• By accident.<br />
• By suicide.<br />
• Suddenly, when in apparent<br />
good health.<br />
• Unattended by a physician or<br />
other recognized practitioner.<br />
• In a prison or penal institution.<br />
• In police custody.<br />
• In any suspicious or unusual<br />
circumstances.<br />
• By criminal abortion.<br />
• By poison.<br />
• By disease constituting a threat<br />
to public health.<br />
• By disease, injury, or toxic<br />
agent exposure resulting from<br />
employment.<br />
• When a body is brought into the<br />
State without proper medical<br />
certification.<br />
Stephen J. Nelson, M.D.,<br />
M.A., F.C.A.P.<br />
Chairman<br />
Medical Examiners<br />
Commission<br />
Florida Department of<br />
Law Enforcement<br />
P.O. Box 1489<br />
Tallahassee, FL<br />
32302-1489<br />
(850) 410-8600<br />
Fax: (850) 410-8621<br />
Email:JNelsonMD@aol.<br />
com<br />
Vickie Marsey<br />
Program Admin.<br />
Medical Examiners<br />
Commission<br />
Same address as above<br />
(850) 410-8660<br />
Fax: (850) 410-8621<br />
Email: VickieMarsey@<br />
fdle.state.fl.us<br />
• When the body is to be cremated,<br />
dissected, or buried at<br />
sea.<br />
Georgia<br />
Mixed: State<br />
Medical Examiner<br />
and County<br />
Coroners/Medical<br />
Examiners<br />
County Coroner,<br />
State Medical<br />
Examiner,<br />
Regional<br />
Medical<br />
Examiner,<br />
County Medical<br />
Examiner,<br />
Local Medical<br />
Examiner<br />
• By violence, suicide, or casualty.<br />
• Suddenly, when in apparent<br />
good health.<br />
• When unattended by a<br />
physician.<br />
• When an inmate of a State<br />
hospital or State, county, or city<br />
penal institution.<br />
• When ordered by a court having<br />
criminal jurisdiction.<br />
• After birth but before 7 years of<br />
age if the death is unexpected or<br />
unexplained.<br />
Kris Sperry, M.D.<br />
State Medical Examiner<br />
Division of Forensic<br />
Sciences<br />
Georgia Bureau of<br />
Investigation<br />
P.O. Box 370808<br />
Decatur, GA 30037-0808<br />
(404) 244-2709<br />
Fax: (404) 212-3047<br />
Email: kris.sperry@gbi.<br />
state.ga.us
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