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02 OCTOBER 2009 -- BANGKOK, THAILAND: Volunteers from the Poh Teck Tung Foundation try to help a man who was involved in a motorcycle accident. The man died at the scene. The 1,000 plus volunteers of the Poh Teck Tung Foundation are really Bangkok's first responders. Famous because they pick up the dead bodies after murders, traffic accidents, suicides and other unplanned, often violent deaths, they really do much more. Their medics respond to medical emergencies, from minor bumps and scrapes to major trauma. Their technicians respond to building collapses and traffic accidents with heavy equipment and the "Jaws of Life" and their divers respond to accidents in the rivers and khlongs of Bangkok. The organization was founded by Chinese immigrants in Bangkok in 1909. Their efforts include a hospital, college tuition for the poor and tsunami relief. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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02 OCTOBER 2009 -- BANGKOK, THAILAND: Volunteers from the Poh Teck Tung Foundation try to help a man who was involved in a motorcycle accident. The man died at the scene. The 1,000 plus volunteers of the Poh Teck Tung Foundation are really Bangkok's first responders. Famous because they pick up the dead bodies after murders, traffic accidents, suicides and other unplanned, often violent deaths, they really do much more. Their medics respond to medical emergencies, from minor bumps and scrapes to major trauma. Their technicians respond to building collapses and traffic accidents with heavy equipment and the "Jaws of Life" and their divers respond to accidents in the rivers and khlongs of Bangkok. The organization was founded by Chinese immigrants in Bangkok in 1909. Their efforts include a hospital, college tuition for the poor and tsunami relief. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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