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Like climbing Mt. Everest, being in emergency medical services consists of hours and hours of doldrums surrounded by minutes of absolute terror, according to physician assistant and adventurer Jeff Evans.
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"They made buses available to me if I needed them. The bottom line is the folks in my facility, regardless of what they're accused of doing or not doing, they are in my care."
According to data provided by Santa Fe County, that number has since risen to 67 percent and includes key positions — including 10 out of the center's 11 Level 3 emergency communications specialists.
The real threat to fire management is death by a thousand cuts, each breakdown leading to shutdowns, each partisan group extracting a concession, that together so encumber the practice that it can’t be implemented.
They've been celebrated as heroes. This week, that temporary workforce of about 60 staff with the Sonoma County, Calif., Department of Health Services will be reduced by a third.
In a 6-3 ruling Thursday, the Supreme Court overturned a century-old law in New York state, citing it as a violation of the Second Amendment. The outcome could influence gun laws currently on the books in other states.
The state Departments of Environmental Quality, Fish, Wildlife and Parks and Public Health and Human Services caution residents against potentially contaminated floodwaters in the Yellowstone River basin.
For now, this is a trial run. Guilford County Schools is borrowing these Evolv Express touchless body scanners before deciding whether to lease them for its traditional high schools across the district.
The Bryx platform is a fully integrated cloud-based platform designed to aid in emergency response by providing first responders with real-time information and direct messaging tools.
FEMA has provided more than $1 billion in public assistance grants to Massachusetts to reimburse pandemic-related expenses. Nearly $6.6 million will go to UMass Amherst.
With massive crowds lining Market Street, it was challenging for emergency services to respond to these calls, Mary Ellen Carroll, the lead for the city's Department of Emergency Management, wrote on Twitter.
The possibility of a school shooting in Yakima is grim, but it is one that's been on the minds of many parents and educators after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Billings, Mont., officials have been working for the past year to create mobile response teams through the Fire Department that could dispatch EMTs to service calls for people who are in distress.
Since the devastation Oregon experienced in 2020, wildfire season summons a sense of urgency. Local fire marshals and forest experts say the area's particularly wet spring doesn't mean wildfire season isn't a concern.
A two-dose COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 6 months to five years was approved by the Federal Drug Administration yesterday. If CDC advisers give it the greenlight, vaccinations could start June 21.
Damage from a supercell storm that moved through the area Monday has residents without electricity for cooling even as the heat index rises above 100 degrees. An excessive heat warning remains in effect through Wednesday.
