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■ Firefighter Autopsy Protocol
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State/
Territory
Type of System Title Deaths Investigated Contact Comment
Maryland
State Medical
Examiner
State Chief
Medical
Examiner
• By violence, suicide, or casualty.
• Suddenly when in apparent good
health, or when unattended by a
physician.
• In any suspicious or unusual
manner.
• Fetuses, regardless of duration
of pregnancy, if the mother is
not attended by a physician at or
after the delivery.
David Fowler, M.D.
Acting State Chief
Medical Examiner
State of Maryland
111 Penn Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 333-3226
Fax: (410) 333-3063
Email: OCMEMD@aol.
com
Massachusetts
State Medical
Examiner
State Chief
Medical
Examiner,
District Medical
Examiner
• Where criminal violence appears
to have taken place, regardless
of the time interval between
the incident and death, and
regardless of whether such
violence appears to have been
the immediate cause of death, or
a contributory factor.
• By accident or unintentional
injury, regardless of the time
interval between the incident and
death, and regardless of whether
such violence appears to have
been the immediate cause of
death, or a contributory factor.
• Suicide, regardless of the time
interval between the incident and
death.
• Death under suspicious or
unusual circumstances.
• Death following an illegal
abortion.
• Death related to occupational
illness or injury.
• Death in custody, in any jail or
correctional facility, or in any
mental health or mental retardation
facility.
• Death where suspicion of abuse
of a child, family or household
member, elder person, or
disabled person exists.
• Death due to poison or acute or
chronic use of drugs or alcohol.
Richard Evans, M.D.
State Chief Medical
Examiner
Commonwealth of
Massachusetts
720 Albany Street
Boston, MA 02118
(617) 267-6767 Toll free
in Massachusetts (800)
962-7877
Fax: (617) 266-6763
Email: richard.evans@
cme.state.ma.us