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CalHeatScore, in the works for years, is designed to help officials and residents better anticipate the risks of heat-related illnesses on the hottest days. Maps and other data round out the service. -
The village is the latest among law enforcement agencies in its state to adopt a records management and dispatch system to let officers spend more time in the field and stay connected with neighboring agencies.
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With the communications department operating at a 35 percent staffing shortage, dispatchers are working overtime and callers may wait up to 20 minutes for emergency assistance.
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The fire started on Oct. 6 at a paper plant and warehouse in Menominee, a small city on Michigan's border with Wisconsin. The warehouse was filled with bales of scrap paper and pulp towering more than 10 feet high.
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Climate migration, not just between countries but inside them, may eventually become the norm as people are forced from their homes because of flooding, drought or other natural disasters.
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Cascadia 9.0 is designed to make earthquake preparation more enjoyable. The game's name comes from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 600-mile fault off the Pacific coastline.
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Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue confirmed Tuesday that one of the firefighter-paramedics slept through the emergency, delaying the truck from ever leaving the station.
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Health officials have warned of another potentially devastating winter surge — especially as new, immune-evasive virus variants emerge and more people move indoors for social activities.
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"The critical fire weather conditions are in place: dry fuels, combined with low relative humidity ... along with gusty east winds," Michalski said. "It drives the rapid growth on the fires we're seeing."
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The seven-day rolling average of daily COVID-19 cases in the U.S. fell below 40,000 for the first time since mid-April on Tuesday.
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The breathing equipment — called self-contained breathing apparatus, or SCBA — consists of air tanks carried on packs worn by firefighters, with face pieces to prevent breathing super-heated air or smoke filled with toxic chemicals.
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The exercise was the culmination of more than 18 months of planning by both public and private agencies and included more than 511 participants who were evaluated over multiple days during the last week of September.
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The state's ongoing struggle to account for heat wave illnesses and deaths — despite promises to improve monitoring — has frustrated some public health experts who say the lack of timely information puts lives in jeopardy.
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In Osceola, at the Heart Memorial Library, the county’s disaster recovery center, a steady stream of residents seeking assistance after the hurricane walked in and out of the building.
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Hurricane Ian forced at least 16 hospitals from central to southwestern Florida to evacuate patients after it made landfall near the city of Fort Myers on Sept. 28 as a deadly Category 4 storm.
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James Kubik lost a childhood friend when she died in a boating accident. What’s worse is that communication equipment, including marine radios, was on board but inaccessible. It spurred Kubik to develop his own device.
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Deborah Beidel, a psychologist and University of Central Florida psychology professor, said those who found their homes uninhabitable after the storm may experience trauma responses to cope with the losses.
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The long delays in moving a patient from the ED to a hospital bed, or even in getting an ambulance to bring them home or to another facility, is creating the major backup, the studies say.
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Lately when the Honolulu Fire Department has responded to rescues and fires, it has encountered an increase in “rogue drones.” These unmanned aerial onlookers have been found to tail department helicopters.
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Landing at the Southwest Florida Regional Airport, Biden will be joined by First Lady Jill Biden and officials with FEMA who plan to board a helicopter and fly over heavily hit areas.
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According to the Department of Water Resources, the $9.7 million is intended to help “improve flood protection on the Yuba River for up to a 200-year flood event, which will reduce the risks of flooding” to the area.
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