Public Safety
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The Flathead County Sheriff's Office is set to receive a new remote underwater vehicle after getting approval from county commissioners on Tuesday. -
The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office on Monday arrested the man after he reportedly stole a vehicle from a business in east Fort Collins, set it on fire and damaged nearby agricultural land.
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The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors will evaluate a $13 million rental agreement for the Sheriff’s Office to obtain new radios and accompanying equipment. The previous lease dates to 2015 and expired last year.
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Sutter Medical Center Sacramento, UC Davis Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente's Roseville Medical Center saw a combined total of 53 inpatient pediatric admissions positive for the virus from July 16 through Aug. 12.
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The map updates when the Forest Service reports fire changes, and Goodman also updates shifts in the evacuation zones. When he’s not mapping fires, he’s pinning the location of 911 calls in the service of responders.
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Extremely dry vegetation, warm temperatures and gusty wind increased the wildfire activity Monday. So much so that the fire developed a pyrocumulus cloud and fire-created lightning, according to Superior National Forest officials.
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The rainstorm swept through the region, causing at least 21 deaths. “There were many folks who were trapped in their homes and trapped in their cars,” said Jim Tanner, the director of Hickman County Emergency Management.
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Since igniting more than a week ago, the Caldor Fire has swelled to 117,704 acres, with explosive growth over the weekend. It has burned at least 455 homes, 11 commercial buildings and 166 minor structures.
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Gov. Kemp said the National Guard troops will "assist our frontline healthcare workers as they provide quality medical care" amid a new spike in cases and hospitalizations fueled by the highly infectious delta variant, which is taking the worst toll on those who refuse vaccinations.
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"We have patients that have died in emergency departments waiting for beds," said Becky Hultberg, president and chief executive of the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems. "In parts of Oregon, we are looking at a system in a state of collapse."
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Henri drove the ocean 1 to 2 feet higher as it made landfall near Westerly, Rhode Island, with top winds of 60 miles per hour. It was southeast of Hartford Connecticut at 5 p.m. local time, lumbering along at 7 miles an hour, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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A massive storm barrels up the coast towards Connecticut and Rhode Island this weekend, following a rash of heavy downpours that thundered across the state Thursday morning, the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.
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The Air Quality Index, a method of air quality reporting and forecasting, rose as high as 226 in Sacramento this week. While the AQI was higher in 2018 from the Camp Fire, Sacramento County's current bad air quality still poses serious health threats.
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"All of public protection has seen a lot of impact from the current pandemic, but really specifically EMS. They really are on the frontlines every day."
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"This federal support and state support of our health care workers is exactly what we need at this exact moment, certainly supportive," said Al Patin, CEO of Ochsner Lafayette General. "And I want our community to recognize and be grateful for that support because it cares for them as well."
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According to a Facebook post from the local fire department, the public is being asked to limit calls for an ambulance for cuts, earaches and other minor maladies because area null with people sick with the coronavirus.
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There have been 489 cases and 25 outbreaks in Pima County schools, since July 20. The number of cases and outbreaks in schools have about doubled in the last week since the majority of Tucson schools opened.
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The university announced it will discontinue an option to seek an exemption for personal reasons as soon as any of the three vaccines currently being distributed under emergency approval receives full approval from the FDA.
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At the Dixie Fire, isolated thunderstorms kept firefighters on their toes and strong gusts battered flames into the footprint of 2007’s Moonlight Fire, which scarred roughly 65,000 acres.
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The Delta variant of COVID-19 is surging, mostly among the unvaccinated, and that includes children, who are ending up in the hospital in unprecedented numbers. Schools will face disruption if the virus continues to spread.
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Hospital capacity is constantly in flux, with bed capacity fluid, but Montgomery's situation mirrors a concerning trend around the state of Alabama. A meteoric rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations shows no signs of slowing.
