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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Over the next three decades, Texas will see more triple-digit days. Out of the 20 counties across the United States expected to experience the greatest number of days above 100 degrees annually, 16 are in Texas.
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A mobile clinic affiliated with Temple Hospital launched four months ago as a vaccination clinic. But as Philadelphia's COVID vaccination rates have stagnated, the service has added other ways to stay essential.
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More than 27 entities — from the state and federal governments, as well as neighboring towns and counties — flocked to Smithers on Tuesday to help residents clean up and repair what Cavalier called "serious" damage.
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State Health Commissioner Dr Mary T. Bassett said the detection of poliovirus in wastewater samples in New York City is alarming but not surprising. "The risk to New Yorkers is real...get vaccinated against polio.
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The initial rush of those seeking the 800 initial monkeypox vaccine dosages resulted in tied-up phone lines and in some cases led to similar waiting lists at the 20 clinics statewide at which the dosages were distributed.
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Shelters most likely have food, water, first-aid supplies and toilet paper, but not your lifesaving medicines, driver’s license or some other form of identification, and spare keys to your house and car.
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The walk-throughs on Tuesday involved Springfield SWAT and fire personnel extensively going through a district elementary school, a middle school as well as Springfield High School.
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Payne County, Okla., is set to receive $15.8 million in federal COVID-19 relief through the American Rescue Plan Act. Several months ago, commissioners committed to using $9.6 million of that total for the updated radio system.
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The best thing U.S. senators could do was spend weeks negotiating, and days voting, to pass climate investments. Returns on that $369 billion injection, to be spent over the next decade, could come too late.
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In 2019, University City officials asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for options. Now, officials have a strategy spelled out in the Corps draft plan released in April: Build a detention basin.
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Crews have been able to restore electricity to well over half of the people who lost power, but fixing all the bridges damaged or destroyed by the flooding will be expensive and more time-consuming.
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Greenville, "a small town with a soul," is home to the largest community in the Indian Valley with about 1,000 people. It’s a town of history with buildings that date back to the mid-1800s and businesses that tote Gold-Rush era artifact.
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As the 55,000-acre McKinney fire continued to burn in California’s Klamath National Forest on Monday, emergency crews encountered increasingly grim evidence of the wildfire’s extraordinary and explosive growth.
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The latest update surrounding the death toll from the floods indicates more than 30 Kentuckians have died. Gov. Andy Beshear confirmed 28 deaths Sunday but the Perry County deputy coroner confirmed four more deaths.
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The McKinney Fire, in a Klamath Mountains subrange west of Yreka, raced across 20,000 acres overnight Saturday and had devoured 52,498 acres as of Sunday evening, the largest fire now burning in California, state and federal fire agencies said.
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Friday morning, firefighters, rescue-squad members, troops from the Kentucky National Guard and volunteers were searching for people in wrecked houses and along streams where the water had gone down.
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A study by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources suggests that a major earthquake and ensuing tsunami from the Seattle fault could produce waves up to 40 feet high and inundate the area with 20 feet of water.
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Chiefs Phil Mosher and Kelly O'Brien, heads of the fire districts in Monitor and Leavenworth respectively, say vaccine requirements may lead to two-thirds fewer firefighters available for mobilization.
