Public Safety
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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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Ohio reported 3,590 new COVID-19 cases Thursday. It was the first time the state reported more than 3,000 cases in a day and beat its previous record by more than 700."This is by far the highest cases we've ever seen.”
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More than eight months into the pandemic, health-care leaders are again calling for a coordinated national strategy to distribute PPE to protect health-care workers and their patients as a new wave of disease wells up.
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Mike Jordan, spokesman for Alabama Power said as of 6:15 a.m. Friday that 243,000 customers statewide woke up without power. About 61,000 of those customers are in central Alabama, the hardest hit areas in the state.
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Zeta was a Category 2 hurricane when forecasters say it made landfall at about 4 p.m. Wednesday near Cocodrie, Louisiana. The system, which downgraded overnight to a tropical storm, was expected to bring heavy rain and winds of up to 60 mph as it continued its track toward the northeast.
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The agency that oversees U.S. immunization practices may offer insights this week to the federal distribution plan, but for now local public health officials who will be leading the effort here say they are preparing based on assumptions.
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"A nurse can only take care of so many patients safely at a time," Owens said, "so while we have lots of beds and lots of rooms in the city of Lima, what we don't have is an abundance of nurses and other types of healthcare clinicians that can step right in."
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As of this week, all 50 states have active COVID-19 emergency declarations in place. More than 30 have extended their orders this fall, according to a tracker provided by the National Governors Association.
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The proclamation activates the National Guard and other state agencies to respond if needed. It also directs the Alabama Emergency Management Agency to make the appropriate assessments of damages and to seek assistance.
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Zeta's winds intensified to 80 mph, Category 1 strength, as it passed Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Monday — the storm is expected to make landfall with similar intensity around 7 p.m. Wednesday in southeast Louisiana.
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Neighbors can be uninterested or too busy to help, municipal coffers may be empty, and accessing state or federal grant dollars is a byzantine process that sucks up any free time left after tending to work and family.
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"Unfortunately, I feel that the data and the statistics speak for themselves. It's not heading where we want it to go. It's heading in the wrong direction," Sullivan, the mayor of Brockton, said.
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Minnesota has reported more than 1,000 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases for more than two consecutive weeks, with Saturday marking the second time since the pandemic began that the count has exceeded 2,000 new cases.
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Lubbock County, Texas, is in danger of possible reinstatement of some restrictions to limit the spread. As of last week, there were 184 COVID-19 patients hospitalized, almost twice as many as the beginning of October.
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At one point, the shelter housed more than 700 people either in vehicles in the parking lot or indoors, and more than 1,000 large animals at the Linn and Benton county fairgrounds, not counting numerous dogs and cats.
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Starting Thursday, when the health department will publish its town risk map weekly, “the Command Center will identify if a municipality's positive cases have been significantly impacted by a clearly identified cluster.”
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Since Monday, officials have been monitoring an outbreak amongst 11 sheriff's department employees, Emergency Management Coordinator Frank Torres said. "We have a lot of personnel out because of the outbreak.”
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More than 1 in 10 parents of young children in New Jersey said they quit their jobs to help with childcare since the pandemic began, with women six times more impacted than men, according to a poll released last month.
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The coronavirus outbreak at Attalla Healthcare and Rehab hit a tipping point on July 10. The number of cases inside the nursing home jumped from two early that week to 79, including 42 among staff members.
