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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Officials running local vaccination programs in multiple counties say they are not being told how many doses they will receive over the next three weeks, which is key data they need to keep things running smoothly.
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The state was charged $318,000 for a lifetime license for PrepMod Public Heath Bundle, which would “automate all aspects of managing public health programming, including pandemics and other public health emergencies.”
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Speaking at a mobile vaccination clinic, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state needs to “do more and do better” to provide outreach and set up vaccine sites directly in the communities that have been hardest hit.
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Between new variants, unreliable vaccine supplies and uneven access to doses, it may take months or even years longer than anyone would like to hit herd immunity. It’s possible the nation may never get there.
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FEMA will open four mass vaccination sites in Florida in Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville and Miami Dade College’s North Campus. Around each site, two mobile units will go to nearby underserved areas with 500 vaccines a day.
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An attacker remotely accessed a Florida water treatment facility via a low-grade security system, and it’s likely that others will see how easy it was and commit more cyberattacks on the nation’s critical infrastructure.
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Grocery retailers in Texas and other parts of the South are used to hurricanes shutting them down for a few days. But the recent massive winter storms are wreaking havoc on the entire transportation infrastructure.
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A survey by Rave Mobile Safety found what first responders and public safety officials have known for years: Often, it’s best for the politicians to step aside and let the people in uniform speak about an emergency.
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California’s health department regularly updates a list of COVID infections and deaths at nursing homes. But only half of listed facilities where employees have died from the disease have reported the death to Cal/OSHA.
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The snowfall wasn’t welcome in many quarters after delighting many only a few days ago. Adding to the troubles was the daily forecast capping a historic four-day cold snap, the worst since 1989.
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“The situation is that Fort Worth water system (our supplier) is experiencing unprecedented water main breaks and other equipment failures due to this weather event,” Haltom City Manager Rex Phelps said.
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Florida was expecting 200,000 Moderna vaccines to arrive Tuesday, but hazardous weather stalled delivery, according to the Florida Division of Emergency Management, which is tasked with the state's vaccine distribution.
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Leaders in both the private and public sector knew something like this could happen. They have called for investigations over weather-related energy failures and quickly arranged hearings at the Capitol before.
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"To have the power go out and not come back on and not have anybody telling you that it's going to come back on and also compounded by literally almost a year of feeling a loss of control can send somebody into a deep state of despair."
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A peer-reviewed study of the impact of vaccine misinformation published in Nature in early February found that exposure to online misinformation about vaccines led fewer Americans to say they would "definitely" get one.
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The Paramedic Technology Program is a four-semester program that runs from the beginning of June through July of the following year. It is delivered through a combination of Interactive Video Network and on-site methods.
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Signs that the extreme weather might pose problems for Kansans emerged Sunday night, as Gov. Laura Kelly issued a cold-weather emergency declaration, which allows state resources to be used to assist in hard-hit areas.
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People vaccinated in mid-January were automatically slotted into appointments for most of the city's anticipated weekly supply of doses, a prioritization that the city said complied with directives by health officials.
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