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The North Area Technical Rescue Team is a 30-year-old, 150-member group that performs specialized rescues in Denver’s northern suburbs, including rope, confined space, trench and collapse rescues. -
Officials in Grand Traverse County, Mich., are seeking county board approval for an artificial intelligence-powered “call taking system” that would help identify and reroute non-emergency calls to 911.
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The City Council in San Rafael voted unanimously this month to renew the San Rafael Police Department's military equipment use policy, which included introducing a new drone program.
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Results from a new survey of more than 100,000 COVID-19 survivors released Tuesday by genetics company 23andMe offer further evidence of a biological cause for the persistent syndrome known as long COVID.
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Former Mayor Billy Keyserling and his brother were sailing on the Beaufort River in South Carolina when the boat they were on capsized in heavy wind, a representative for the family told a reporter on Sunday.
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Systems are shutting down across West Virginia, he said. Locally, the Star City Volunteer Fire Department has suspended EMS services due to budget constraints, and two Preston County operations have closed.
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The Wisconsin NERC warned Wednesday that parts of the upper Midwest face a “high risk” of energy emergencies under certain conditions, such as extreme heat or unexpected generator outages.
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Roughly 2,000 Ameren Illinois customers in the metro-east were still without power as of 9:30 a.m. Friday , said Brian Bretsch , a spokesperson for the utility company.
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Evacuation zones are determined based on the potential for storm surge to flood a neighborhood. They should not be confused with flood zones, which dictate insurance requirements and are set by FEMA.
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In a news conference Tuesday, Gov. Lujan Grisham acknowledged she did not have hard figures — most recent estimates had put losses of homes at 366 — but added "given the nature of this fire ... I don't think it's an exaggeration."
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The Baltimore Police Department will also expand its telephone reporting unit, which allows people to report certain crimes over the phone or online, instead of having an officer dispatched to the scene.
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El Dorado County government officials released a five-minute video Tuesday in which residents plead with President Biden to grant “individual assistance” to survivors of last summer’s disastrous Caldor Fire.
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The days after the tornado were filled with remarkable stories of park residents who rode out the storm amid crumbling walls, flying debris and golf ball-sized hail. The massive cleanup attracted hundreds of volunteers from across the Midwest.
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Grid conditions are better than they were this weekend, experts say. That’s because five of the six power plants that went offline Friday are back online. Those five make up about 2,500 megawatts of the almost 3,000 that were lost.
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“If you’ve chosen not to wear a mask in indoor public places recently, now is a good time to start again. Highly contagious subvariants are spreading here. If you add layers of protection like a high quality mask, it reduces risk to you and the chance you’ll infect others."
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Wildfire smoke can cause a number of health problems, ranging from eye and respiratory tract irritation to more serious concerns, such as reduced lung function, bronchitis, asthma attacks, heart failure and even neurological disorders.
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Records obtained by The Chronicle show that from Jan. 1 through Nov. 23 last year, there were 115 instances in which Oakland's communications center got so overburdened with 911 calls that dispatchers had to triage.
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The nurses, as well as their administrators and educators, are not letting the moment pass without making some changes to better equip nurses physically and emotionally for the job.
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The law requires drivers approaching an emergency response area to either move into the left lane away from where emergency responders are present, or to significantly slow their speed if switching lanes is not possible.
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Since late March, California’s case rate has nearly tripled and the Bay Area — which historically experienced a lower case rate than the rest of the state — has emerged as a COVID-19 hot spot.
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The 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck Charleston on Aug. 31, 1886, was one of the most powerful ever recorded in the state. The quake killed 60 people and was felt for more than 2.5 million square miles away.
