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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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Since overwhelming New York City in late December, the highly contagious omicron variant has seeped into Connecticut, spreading rapidly through the southern part of the state and then other corners as well.
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At a news conference held by Gov. Ron DeSantis, Kevin Guthrie, the director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, confirmed the stockpile of kits, manufactured by Abbott Laboratories, sat unused.
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In cooperation with FEMA, Pennsylvania will open regional support sites, staffed by doctors, respiratory therapists and nurses, to help hospitals and nursing homes that are at or nearing capacity with COVID-19 patients.
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But the Supreme Court declined to say whether the law is, in fact, constitutional — calling its ultimate fate into question. A majority of the justices instead adopted a posture of restraint.
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“Partial human remains of an adult” were found in unincorporated Boulder County, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office said on Wednesday, Jan. 5. The remains were found near where the Marshall Fire began.
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“The next four to six weeks will be the most challenging time of the entire pandemic,” Hogan said. Maryland hospitals could house more than 5,000 COVID-19 patients, which would be at least 250% higher than the peak last year.
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The new variant is spreading at lightning speed, infecting people at a rate seven times higher than the delta mutation before it and creating more breakthrough cases among vaccinated individuals.
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A memo indicated that “San Diego County (Emergency Department) capacity is exhausted” with “more than 80 percent” of all civilian hospitals in the region already reducing their ambulance loads due to extremely high numbers of patients.
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Washington state’s law and regulations are mostly silent about utility companies’ duty to prevent wildfire. Its regulators aren’t required to inspect power lines for fire risk, and have no power to impose fines if there are hazards.
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In his first year in office, President Biden has found that the nation’s aging infrastructure and pressures from a changing climate are putting new demands on the federal government, officials say.
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The blaze that ignited Thursday morning has become the most destructive fire in the state’s history as nearly 1,000 homes and businesses have been destroyed and countless others damaged.
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Those facilities have some of the lowest percentages of available staffed hospital beds in New York. In the five-county Western New York region, just 3% of hospital beds were available in Chautauqua County and only 8% were open in Cattaraugus County.
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All 12 U.S. senators and representatives from Washington sent a letter on Wednesday, Dec. 22, in support of Inslee’s Dec. 17 request to President Joe Biden asking him to announce a federal emergency major disaster declaration for the state.
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If approved by the City Council, it would require all San Jose city employees to receive booster shots as a condition of employment and anyone who enters city-owned facilities to do the same.
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“Once we have a full list of who’s going to participate and where, we will put that out so the public can know where they can go and pick up a rapid test. We expect that they will go quickly.”
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“Volunteer numbers for firefighting have dropped significantly since the 1970s when there were around 300,000 volunteers to about 40,000 today in Pennsylvania municipalities, and specifically Sunbury.”
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Colorado surpassed 10,000 deaths from COVID-19 last week, but more than 2,900 of those came since the start of July, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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One room became available because the COVID-positive patient there, a man, died earlier in the morning. The nurse caring for that patient left Thursday night for home expecting to see him again the next day.
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