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Friday, February 19, 2016

Police Uses Sign Language Saved Deaf Teen Life

VIDEO [CC] - Deaf News: Raleigh police officer uses sign language to talk Deaf ratchet teen off bridge in North Carolina, Mom says:





RALEIGH, NC -- WNCN-TV: A Raleigh police officer used sign language to talk a Deaf 16-year-old off the Rock Quarry Road bridge over I-40 on Tuesday, according to the officer’s father and witnesses at the scene.



The mother of a Deaf teen says a Raleigh police officer saved her daughter’s life after he used sign language to help talk her off a bridge.



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Maria Daley says she was “terrified and didn’t know what to do” as her daughter was standing on a bridge over Interstate 40 Tuesday afternoon.



She says she’s grateful for the officer who used sign language to communicate with her 16-year-old daughter until she came down off the bridge.



“If the officer had not been there, she probably would have jumped,” said Daley to WNCN. “Normally when the police are called, none of the officers know sign language. I’m very excited someone was out there to communicate with her.”



Raleigh police blocked all lanes near Rock Quarry Road starting around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. The girl came off the bridge around 4:45 p.m. She was unharmed, police said, and was being evaluated at a local crisis center.



Daley says her daughter “got upset and said she was going to hurt herself” after Daley took away her phone. Daley later found a note left for her saying she was going to the bridge.



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Daley says she was trying to protect her daughter by taking the phone away after she caught the teen using anonymous messaging apps on her phone, such as Kik. The popular messaging app has been linked to a growing number of child sexual abuse cases.



The officer has declined to be identified and the Raleigh Police Department says they have no American Sign Language training program. The officer learned how to sign on his own, police say.



One of the North Carolina Department of Transportation cameras picked up the officer making gestures to the girl. Witnesses tell WNCN they saw the officer communicate with the girl by sign language for about 30 minutes.



“It’s good that he knew sign language, I feel like more people need to learn it,” said witness Sean Day. “It shows that he had a lot of patience and he didn’t let whatever he had on his mind interfere with what was going on.”



Daley hopes the powerful moment will encourage more people to learn sign language, leading to more shared connections and maybe saved lives. Source

Monday, February 1, 2016

Deaf Man Dies In North Carolina House Fire

VIDEO [CC] - Deaf News: Family tried to save Deaf man from fatal Smithfield house fire in North Carolina.





SMITHFIELD, NC -- WRAL: One man died on Saturday morning in a house fire in Smithfield, North Carolina, officials said.



The fire at the home on 5th Street near the Smithfield Police Department was reported at 5 a.m., according to the Smithfield Fire Department. Fire Chief John Blanton said crews received a call for a fire with someone trapped inside the home and arrived on scene at 5:05 a.m.





Search and rescue crews found one victim dead inside.



Mamie Stewart lived in the home that caught fire. Stewart said her nephew Michael Caroll Davis, 43, who was Deaf, died in the fire.





“He made me feel good all the time,” said Stewart of her nephew. “He loved to make sure I had my coffee in the morning when I got up.”



Stewart said she was up very early Saturday morning, reading her Bible, while Davis was asleep upstairs. Her grandson came home and said he smelled something burning, so Stewart said she walked toward the kitchen.



“I heard something and there was nothing but smoke and stuff. It just engulfed the house,” she said. Stewart said she and others tried to go back upstairs to get Davis, but couldn't reach him.





“I’m running upstairs, trying to get upstairs and the smoke engulfed me. I couldn’t see nothing and I know he couldn’t hear me,” she said. “We couldn’t save him.”



Davis had lived with his aunt since his mother died when he was ten-years-old.



“He wasn’t my child, but I raised him as mine and I loved him just as much as my own child that I gave birth to,” said Stewart."I just thank God for all the good things that I remember him by."



The other seven people in the home, who were all relatives of Stewart, were able to escape. The smoke detector in the home wasn't working, she said.



The cause of the fire is being investigated by the Johnston County Fire Marshal. Source

Saturday, January 16, 2016

Indonesian Fingertalk Cafe Employs Deaf People

VIDEO: Deaf News: Deaf Cafe Fingertalk - A first-of-its-kind cafe hires and empowers the Deaf in Jakarta, Indonesia.





JAKARTA -- Deaf Cafe Fingertalk: Frisca Carolina Loho, 25, possesses skills in cooking, sewing, computer design, home repairs and Balinese traditional dancing. However, the woman, who previously lived in Denpasar, Bali, and Cimahi, West Java, said that finding a stable job was a challenge due to fierce competition.





“I have learned a variety of skills so I can take on different jobs. But there are a lot of people without disabilities who can also do such jobs,” she told The Jakarta Post via an interpreter at her new workplace, the Fingertalk Cafe and Workshop, on Jl. Pinang 37, East Pamulang, South Tangerang, Banten province.



She was able to secure a steady job after Singapore-based Dissa Syakina Ahdanisa, a 25-year-old social entrepreneur, and hearing impaired activist Pat Sulistiowati, 65, opened the cafe and recruited hearing impaired workers.



Frisca, who has an academic background in cooking and fashion, was among the few recruits with extensive skills, therefore she also plays a role in training the younger and less-experienced employees. ... Read the full story: HERE.



Like on Facebook: - https://facebook.com/deafcafe.fingertalk



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Friday, January 15, 2016

Deaf Chinese Victims ‘Beaten, Raped, Intimidated’

Deaf News: Deaf-mute victims ‘beaten, raped, intimidated’ into stealing in Chinese crime gang in China.





CHANGCHUN -- A Deaf woman has been arrested in northeast China and accused of leading a gang of mainly deaf-mute thieves who were threatened and intimidated into a life of crime, a newspaper reported.



Police in Changchun in Jilin province busted the gang last month and detained four women and seven men, most of whom are Deaf, the New Culture Express reported. The gang’s leaders pretended to help people get jobs to lure them into the gang, the article said.



Victims then had their identity cards and money seized by the gang’s boss, Gu Li, 47. Gang members would be beaten up, raped or threats made to kill their relatives if they did not go out and steal, the report said.



They targeted supermarkets and would cram expensive items inside their clothes to steal them. The gang stole about 100,000 yuan (HK$120,00 ) worth of goods in Changchun, the police were quoted as saying.



Three hundred and sixty people were arrested in a national crackdown in China three years ago and accused of abducting Deaf students and forcing them to carry out robberies.



Sixty-one gangs were discovered in 21 provinces around China. Source

Monday, January 11, 2016

Deaf Woman Helps Two Boys By Texting 911

VIDEO [CC] - Deaf woman helps 2 boys left in car in Georgia by texting 911.





ALPHARETTA, GA -- A Deaf woman in Georgia helped two boys she found alone in a car by texting 911. Lisa Collins said she knew she could report what she saw because she was in Alpharetta, one of four police agencies in Georgia that provides texting access to 911.



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"Our 911 dispatcher was able to text back with her," said George Gordon, from the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. Gordon said this is the first time anyone had texted 911 since they started the service in late 2014.



Collins texted to 911, "Someone left two young kids in the car, they're about two and five, I think...," and gave police the location where she was.



"I have two children of my own and I didn't think it was right to do that," said Collins. "I was thrilled when the 911 operator answered my text."



Gordon said having texting access to 911 is very beneficial.



"It could be domestic violence, whatever it is, where you don't have to speak, you text in anything to the 911 center now in our city."



In this case, police said a babysitter left the children in the car briefly and they handled the situation without arresting her. Source

Friday, January 1, 2016

Dubai Skyscraper Luxury Hotel Engulfed By Fire

VIDEO [CC] Breaking News: 63-story luxury hotel 'The Address Downtown Dubai' on fire near world's tallest building in New Year's Eve at Dubai.





DUBAI, UAE -- A huge fire engulfed a Dubai skyscraper on Thursday just hours before New Year's celebrations with a number of explosions heard in and around the building.



Firefighters battled a massive blaze that engulfed a luxury hotel in Dubai Thursday night while a spectacular New Year’s fireworks display lit up the night sky nearby.



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Orange tentacles of flames engulfed a large section of the high-end The Address Downtown Hotel soon after the blaze began around 9:30 p.m. (12:30 p.m. ET). Hours later, dark plumes of smoke billowed from the building as the fire still appeared to be searing several stories.





Witnesses said they heard explosions as the fire raged. A source told CNN the fire broke out in a residence on the building’s 20th floor when the curtains caught on fire.



Jaqueline Hurtado, a CNN en Español correspondent, said she was at a restaurant in the area when she heard an explosion, “like a loud pop,” and thought the fireworks display may have started early.





Then she and others noticed flames at the hotel, and were soon evacuated from the area.



“That fire was big. The fire was just going so fast,” she said. “It just started burning real quick.”



At least 16 people were injured, the Dubai government’s media office said Thursday night on Twitter.





But the highly anticipated New Year’s Eve festivities in the United Arab Emirates’ most populous city including what was billed as one of the world’s largest fireworks displays went ahead as planned. Cheering crowds of onlookers watched as bursts of color filled the sky.



Just a few blocks away, the scene was dramatically different.



At the Address hotel, which describes itself as “the premier five-star hotel” in Dubai, flames appeared to be devouring growing portions of the high-rise, even as government officials said the blaze was largely contained. Source



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Friday, December 11, 2015

Deaf Woman Choked By Homophobic Attacker

Deaf News: Deaf woman punched in face and strangled with her own tie by homophobic attacker in south London.





LONDON -- A Deaf woman has told how she was punched in the face and strangled with her own tie by a homophobic attacker just a few yards from her home in south London.



Helena Martins, 43, who lost her hearing five years ago to Ménière's disease, was cornered by the man as she walked home through Tooting last night.



Moments before, she had removed her cochlea implant, which she relies on to hear, as she approached her house.



The man hit her in the eye and choked her with her polka dot tie, which she believes marked her out as gay, and her implant dropped on the floor. As she fought to protect herself, the man scratched her across her face and levelled more blows at her head.



Mrs Martins, who is trained in taekwondo, eventually managed to kick him in the crotch, prompting him to run away, before she picked up her implant and rushed into her house, where she lives with her wife of three years.



She was today recovering from a swollen eye, as well as cuts and bruises to her face.



Commenting on her ordeal, Mrs Martins, who moved to London from Portugal just over 12 years ago, told the Standard: "I am very shaken. I have no doubt that I was targeted because I was a woman wearing a tie. He was quite fixated on the tie. I am not butch but I wear masculine attire." ... Read More: HERE.
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