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The Dayton Police Department may soon use gunshot detection technology, drones and license plate readers to try to reduce crime in several hot spot neighborhoods in west and northwest Dayton. -
CalHeatScore, in the works for years, is designed to help officials and residents better anticipate the risks of heat-related illnesses on the hottest days. Maps and other data round out the service.
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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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Vintners aren’t the only ones with growing concern about fire protection in Napa County. A local nonprofit, the Napa Firewise Foundation, has secured funding from the county for its Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
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The gunshot detection tech provider faces serious controversy in Chicago. But the company keeps on growing and has big plans for the coming months, thanks in part to fresh product offerings.
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“On the pediatric side, I’ll just tell you that in the last 12 months, [at USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital], our pediatric services diagnosed 500 cases of COVID in children.”
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Cleanup continues after rain-driven floodwater swept into the area early Friday, washing away cars and buildings. At least one person died, according to WKYT, the Herald-Leader's reporting partner.
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Center for Strategic and International Studies senior vice president Seth G. Jones said his organization catalogued 110 domestic terrorist attacks and plots in 2020—an increase of 45 incidents since 2019.
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The district recorded 598 positive cases last school year—that includes some students who were learning remotely; the majority of the infections and quarantines were on the high school level.
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Most students will be showing up to campus for in-person, face-to-face learning in a long-planned move to bring stability to Hawaii children, along with a better brand of instruction, after more than a year of disruption and uncertainty.
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Hospital emergency rooms are once again filled with COVID patients, and administrators are scrambling to staff up to meet the demand as business and political leaders stand on the verge of reimposing mask mandates.
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In most years, a global pandemic would top the list in response for any emergency management director, but for Hall it was just a piece of a busy year with one emergency after another.
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“The big concern is that the next variant that might emerge — just a few mutations potentially away — could potentially evade our vaccines,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said this week.
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The startup’s roots are in hooking up fire agencies with building data. But in five years, it’s expanded into other areas of IT and dipped into EMS and police, too. With new investment, it hopes to double its headcount.
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Those temperatures are not as alarming as the all-time record 109 degrees reached on June 29, the peak of a stretch of brutal heat in which 20 people in Spokane County died of suspected heat-related causes.
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Judge Hauber’s decision will temporarily restore the ability of local health officers to issue orders, such as mask mandates or capacity limits, to combat the spread of COVID-19, something SB 40 previously limited.
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If FireGuard’s access is not renewed by the end of September, federal and state firefighters could find themselves locked out of a “vastly important” tool, Phillip SeLegue, Cal Fire’s deputy chief of intel, said.
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Vaccine passports are controversial. Some Republican-led states have banned localities from implementing a vaccine passport system, and even in heavily Democratic California, where 61% of the population is fully vaccinated, Newsom is careful to avoid using the phrase.
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The Dixie Fire burning in Plumas and Butte counties, at 197,487 acres as of Monday morning, had produced smoke that settled into a blanket of foggy, cool air, shielding the fire from direct sunlight and high temperatures in the 90s.
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In a matter of fewer than three hours on July 17, the normally placid brook running under Chase Hill Road swelled roughly 12 feet over its banks and sent a cascade of debris and racing water toward Taft Pond Road.
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Nursing homes struggled to follow infection control rules for years prior to the arrival of the novel coronavirus. But for the first time during the pandemic, every nursing home in the country received an infection control inspection and some were visited multiple times.
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