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North Dakota lawmakers are exploring telemedicine as a solution to the shortage of paramedics and volunteer first responders statewide. One option connects responders in ambulances with medical providers for support.
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After the death of a person in police custody during a system malfunction and other repeated issues, city lawmakers will investigate the computer-aided dispatch system that is "prone to freeze-ups and outages."
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Many roads in Fort Lauderdale remained impassable on Thursday morning, city officials said. Close to 26 inches of rain fell in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, with most of that falling in just six hours, according to the National Weather Service.
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“For any data that a forecast produces, there’s uncertainty in future conditions, For these last ten years we’ve seen a lot of extremes ... forecasting procedures are trying to adapt to that.”
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New London, Conn., Emergency Management Director tom Curcio said getting people to evacuate is difficult. Police have two high-water vehicles to extract people from neighborhoods when they get into trouble.
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“The melt is really going to start happening in the next week,” said Lisa Hiebert, a spokesperson with St. Paul Public Works. “As the water level rises, we have very clear plans around our response and notifying the public.”
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The purpose of the group is to promote amateur radio in a positive light to the public as well as provide a valuable service to the community.
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"The people of Pajaro do so much to put food on the tables of millions of Americans, and they are now needing the support and assistance of our federal and state agencies to recover from these devastating floods."
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Although the role of climate change in tornadoes is not fully understood, researchers say locations are shifting, the season is lengthening and the number of tornadoes in a single event is increasing.
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A considerable amount of uncertainty exists about these potential storms, but damaging hail and a few tornadoes are possible, and meteorologists will be monitoring changing weather conditions.
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The very day that Guernsey County, Ohio, went live with its next-generation 911 system, the featured live video feed helped the dispatcher and a mother save her son, who was having a seizure.
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"(Customers) do this every year. When the storms come in, they get nervous and then they start looking for a shelter. And then during the off season they don't worry about it. Every year."
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"They're managing very well under the circumstances. They obviously had roof and water damages that they continue to work on. Their private sector partners have been on the ground 24-7 as well."
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Due to "a very high amount of water in the snowpack across the region, with the north shore, east-central Minnesota, and all of northwest Wisconsin currently ranking in the top 10% of historical snow water measurements."
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For the 55 days until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took over, there was a near-constant state of confusion over who was — or who should have been — in charge of fighting the fire, and who would pay to put it out.
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Parts of the Santa Cruz Mountains were still without power Sunday morning, according to the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. outage map. It was not immediately clear how many customers were affected.
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A nine-session series on how businesses can effectively mitigate, respond to and recover from an active shooter or other mass casualty event could make a big difference in an emergency.