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The corps provides a response to all fires and other major emergencies, including on-scene triage and multiple ambulances for transport. The corps will also mobilize for events such as the Mother's Day 2011 PATH train crash, the "Miracle on the Hudson", when a US Airways flight crash-landed into the
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with the local department claiming that administrators of the corps were smoking indoors even while children and pregnant women were in the building. It was alleged that the behavior had been occurring on a daily basis for "multiple years". The president acknowledged that the claim was true and
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