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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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"We're now at a point that we have not seen through this pandemic," Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian , the state's chief medical executive, said Tuesday. The Detroit area is hardest hit with the highest hospitalization rate in the state from the virus.
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The metro area has the nation’s fourth worst job shortfall from the “pandemic recession,” Fed economists wrote in their report. The area had 8.1% fewer jobs in October 2021 than it did prior to the pandemic.
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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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