Public Safety
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The Osceola County Board of Commissioners approved the purchase of new portable and dual band radios at a cost of $330,552 during its meeting Dec. 16, by a vote of 5-1. -
City Council is considering two options that would charge for paramedic care provided by the Monterey Fire Department when ambulance transport is needed. Some are concerned it would discourage people from calling 911.
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Gov. Bob Ferguson said he would request an expedited emergency declaration from the federal government, seeking to unlock federal resources and financial support, as flooding continues in Western Washington this week.
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Former high-level public safety officials who took part in a webinar discussed the failures during the initial response of the coronavirus and the importance of correcting those errors during the summer.
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For weeks, emergency medical services personnel have been taking extra precautions to protect themselves, health care workers and the public from the potential spread of COVID-19. For ambulance services it’s meant a new way of doing things.
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A worst-case scenario would be reopening the counties too quickly and undoing all the progress made during weeks of social distancing. Officials want to see more testing in Wyoming County before decisions to ease restrictions are made.
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Rural areas aren’t immune to the coronavirus and have characteristics that can make them more vulnerable and make the disease deadlier than in bigger cities, including the nature of work and fewer medical resources.
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That new data includes 270 of the 275 institutional settings have at least one case of COVID-19. The county said it was investigating 3,115 cases — 1,826 among residents and 1,289 among staff.
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FEMA’s guide to the alert system says calls aren’t supposed to drop when alerts arrive. But several residents on April 6 posted complaints about losing calls because of alerts tied to the county’s “Safer at Home” campaign.
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The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency sends the requests for supplies to headquarters and the missions are sent to the 1058th the night before.
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“Any death is a tragedy, and we must continue our efforts to do all we can to try and flatten the curve of COVID-19 in Prisons,” Todd Ishee, commissioner of prisons, said in a news release. “The health and safety of the staff and the men and women in our custody is of paramount importance.”
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Council members say the fire department was “over responding” by sending the rescue truck on all calls when only ambulances respond on calls in other municipalities and aren’t joined by their fire departments.
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The strategies included: the closing of the fire stations to the public; and the “increased cleaning” of fire stations and apparatus including the use of atomization guns from the school custodians for sterilization.
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Overall, ER admissions have dropped at many hospitals, which could be due to many factors, namely that stay-at-home orders prevent people from participating in the types of activities that land them in the hospital.
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"Florida is unlike any other state …," said the state Chamber of Commerce president. "Reopening Florida's economy needs to be surgical." The caution comes amid growing demands to return Floridians to their workplaces.
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Tift Regional Medical Center in Georgia deployed the LiveProcess Emergency Manager software two weeks before the coronavirus hit the region and began managing the virus via the system immediately.
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“In the 1980s, Astoria was a rough-and-tumble town. There were five bars you could go into at any time and buy any kind of dope you wanted and watch a fight in the meantime. It was a rough place. Downtown was empty. Well, dang, we may be going back to that again.”
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Gov. Whitmer’s target numbers are still short of what some experts recommend, and even reaching the goal she set may be easier said than done. Michigan already is below the national average in per-capita testing of COVID-19.
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Those eligible work in fields that include utilities, transportation, hotels, food processing, cleaning and maintenance, child care, auto repair, grocery retail, pharmacy, convenience stores and gas stations.
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"The Topeka, Shawnee County COVID-19 Response Team is very concerned about how we respond and recover. We know that our collective efforts are paying off in flattening the curve. We need that cooperation intact going forward."
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“The number 30,000 was really taking into account the duration of this and that these are volunteers and that they would not be indefinite staff," he said. “So spending a week at a facility, including working through the details of helping out in the long-term care environment was where that number came to be.”
