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With the dark and the reflection, this is an awful photo, but red lights are red lights.
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“@stevebuttry There was an Amtrak death yesterday and questions about their response. Hope they learned quick. washingtonpost.com/lifesty…
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“Emergency vehicles responding to #Amtrakfatal near Aberdeen MD. rightnow.io/breaking-news/… #Aberdeen via @stevebuttry
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“Emergency vehicles responding to #Amtrakfatal near Aberdeen MD. rightnow.io/breaking-news/… #Aberdeen via @stevebuttry
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Larry’s referring to my blog post about his live-tweeting of a breaking story. Larry’s a better cops reporter than I am. He’d have been off this train (he probably also has a media credential).
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I blogged about Andy’s use of Banjo on a breaking story. Alas, it did me no good tonight.
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Hell, yes.
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Well, not exactly “The Fugitive,” but more breaking news than I’ve covered in a while.
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“@stevebuttry Here’s the police, fire, EMS scanner for County you’re in: radioreference.com/apps/au… Audio only but it’s live. Bed for me. Good luck
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“@stevebuttry This is far from the first fatality at that location: archives.exploreharford.co…
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“This is the first place Foursquare shows near the #amtrakfatal. (@ Adams Chevrolet) 4sq.com/xN9pus
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“First I’ve heard of them, too. police.amtrak.com/ #amtrakfatal RT @Mia_Ria Amtrak police? What are those? Federal? Private?
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I agree on that. Took a while for the first announcement, but they have been pretty informative about this.
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“It’s a big deal for me & the person they hit, but Amtrak had 97 fatalities last year thru November: safetydata.fra.dot.gov/Off…
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“@stevebuttry Neither can I. But it’s something an engineer may witness 3x over career (via Progressive Railroading). j.mp/zu8zXM
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As I was curating this (and continuing the live-tweeting, my colleague Ivan Lajara beat me to publishing by Storify. In my defense, I was live-tweeting as well as curating.
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Ivan noted that we could collaborate (he understands Storify and lots of tools better than I do). But I decided to publish dueling accounts.
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“Damn! Was about to publish mine! RT @ivanlajara @Stevebuttry live-tweets an #Amtrakfatal accident sfy.co/bpj (done in ipad)
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Amtrak fatality in the middle of the night
February 24, 2012 by Steve Buttry
[…] blind spots. For example, don’t just do this on the train fatality without also linking to this on the train fatality. Even when you are doing a brief, see if there are tweets about the topic. When you spend more time […]
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i would just like to say i knew the lady that died personally iam so crushed to read this i wish it was a bad dream!she was a beautiful person who left behind 3 little boys the youngest was 3 her boys were her world suicide is so outa character for her if any1 can provide answers to the family it will be greatly appreciated!!there are so many questions n no answers please help! in a millions years i never thought i would read a play by play like that on my friends last moments on this earth truely crushed rip tammi
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