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■ Firefighter Autopsy Protocol
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I: Background ■
State/
Territory
Type of System Title Deaths Investigated Contact Comment
Georgia
(cont’d)
• In any suspicious or unusual
manner, with particular attention
to those persons 16 years of age
and under.
• As a result of an execution carried
out pursuant to imposition of
the death penalty.
Randy Hanzlick, M.D.
Chief Medical Examiner,
Fulton County
Fulton County Medical
Examiner Center
430 Pryor Street SW
Atlanta, GA 30312
(404) 730-4400
Fax: (404) 730-4407
Email: RandyHanzlick@
mail.co.fulton.ga.us
Guam
Territorial Medical
Examiner
Chief Medical
Examiner
• Violent, unusual, or unnatural
deaths. This covers any death
attributed to accident, suicide,
homicide, criminal abortion,
physical, mechanical, electrical,
chemical, radiational, thermal, or
related means.
Aurelio A. Espinola, M.D.
Chief Medical Examiner
P.O. Box 7147
Tamuning, GU 96931
(671) 646-9363h
• All deaths under suspicious
circumstances.
• Sudden deaths in apparent
health without obvious cause.
• Deaths without medical
attendance:
1. found dead without obvious
or probable cause.
2. unattended at anytime by a
licensed physician.
3. unattended by a physician
during a terminal illness,
particularly if such death
appears unrelated to a
disease previously diagnosed
and treated.
4. fetal death attended by
midwife.
5. deaths in prison, lock up,
penitentiary, or juvenile
justice facility.
6. deaths during or following
an acute or unexplained
syncope or coma.
7. during an acute or unexplained
rapidly fatal illness
which may be contagious to
the public.