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■ Firefighter Autopsy Protocol
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I: Background ■
State/
Territory
Type of System Title Deaths Investigated Contact Comment
Montana
(cont’d)
• If the dead body is to be
cremated or shipped into the
State and lacks proper medical
certification or burial or transmit
permits.
• Death that occurred under suspicious
circumstances.
• Death that is the result of a
judicial order.
• Death that has occurred and no
physician or surgeon licensed
in Montana will sign a death
certificate.
ChiefState Medical Examiner—
provides assistance and consultation
to Coroners.
Nebraska County Coroner County Coroner,
County
Coroner’s
Physician
• By criminal means or violence.
• Homicide or suicide.
• By drowning.
• If sudden or unusual.
• If drug-related.
• If sudden infant death syndrome
is suspected.
• When involving the sudden and
unexplained death of a child
between the ages of 1 week
and 3 years, and when neglect,
violence, or any unlawful means
are possible.
• When death is not certified by
attending physician.
• When an individual has died
while being apprehended by
or while in the custody of a law
enforcement officer or detention
personnel.
• Any suspicious, unexplained, or
unattended death.
DeMaris Johnson
Executive Director
Nebraska County
Attorneys Association
Suite 203
1233 Lincoln Mall
Lincoln, NE 68508
(402) 476-6047
Fax: (402) 476-2469
In Lancaster
and Douglas
Counties,
physicians
have been
appointed to
assist in the
investigations
and the
signing of the
medical portion
of death
certificates.
In Douglas
County,
the County
Attorney has
appointed
a medical
examiner to
investigate
deaths by
unnatural
causes.