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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. -
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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When the Eaton Fire broke out in the foothills near Altadena, the Los Angeles County Fire Department did not have access to a satellite-based fire-tracking program regularly used by other agencies.
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Gov. Jay Inslee ended the COVID-19 state of emergency on Oct. 31. However, the state Secretary of Health still has discretion to maintain a few criteria, such as masking in healthcare settings.
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Working with FEMA and other state agencies following the flood, many families opted to either remain in their damaged homes or move into mobile homes temporarily during the warm, summer months.
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To help ensure that mistakes aren’t repeated and that lessons learned are truly heeded the next time, the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region is developing a Comprehensive Regional Pandemic Resilience Roadmap.
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As a Category 1 storm at its strongest, Nicole did not exactly break records for wind ferocity or storm surge height, but it came on the heels of devastating Category 4 Hurricane Ian a mere six weeks earlier.
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Instead, the Honolulu Police Department has launched a new public site that lists most active police cases and is automatically updated every 15 minutes.
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The fire was producing a haze across Lexington early Wednesday. Maj. Jessica Bowman with the Lexington Fire Department said there are no active fire conditions in Fayette County despite the smokey conditions.
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Nicole is projected to reach hurricane strength Wednesday evening before reaching the Florida coast and turning up toward Georgia and South Carolina, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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“We are at a critical point right now with the state of our beaches…Our buffer is gone,” Jessica Fentress, coastal division director for Volusia County, said during a press conference on Monday.
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The latest advisory predicts it will become a hurricane while over the Bahamas on Wednesday night on its way to Florida with 75 mph winds and gusts up to 90 mph.
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The CDC switched up the contractors who run the national program for some 25,000 responders and survivors outside of the New York area and the prescription drug benefits for the entire program.
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Be Well is part of a national groundswell, putting mental health experts on calls that cops always took before, reducing the chance of tension-filled conflicts that can go deadly.
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"Most everything on this radio is obsolete. Most of the parts on these radios are no longer being manufactured. So it makes them difficult to get them fixed if something breaks or no longer works."
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Survivors of natural disasters — especially the hurricanes that have hit the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico the past two decades — report years of neglect, chaos and mismanagement of emergency response.
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The train was enroute from Bellevue in Sandusky County to Conway, Pennsylvania. It had 237 cars and four engines, according to Norfolk Southern spokesperson Connor Spielmaker.
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“The groups of people that are going to be really, really affected are those marginalized communities that already have a difficult time accessing vaccines."
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The state's earthquake early warning system notified nearly 100,000 people that a quake was going to strike near San Jose — and people as far away as San Francisco had as many as 18 seconds to brace themselves before it actually hit.
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At least three people, including the shooter, were killed and even more were injured following a shooting Monday at the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis.
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Research from top institutions, including the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Stanford University School of Medicine, show that new strains of COVID-19 are showing different symptoms from their predecessors.
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