Public Safety
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By responding to 911 calls involving mental health crises with a specialized team including a clinical social worker, the program cut hospitalization rates. Permanent funding may be on the way. -
The Flathead County Sheriff's Office is set to receive a new remote underwater vehicle after getting approval from county commissioners on Tuesday.
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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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Nationwide, that desperate shortage of personal protective equipment has ebbed some, and the headlines have faded. But the shortage isn’t over. Health-care providers from hospitals to doctors' offices to nursing homes are still having to search for PPE.
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California’s new health equity metric is one of three indicators it is using to determine when counties may advance reopening and roll back shelter-in-place restrictions, based on a color-coded, tiered assessment system.
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Mike Causey, North Carolina State Insurance commissioner and fire marshal, handed out $117,000 in grant money. "This funding is a necessity," Causey said. "Because of COVID the departments haven't been able to host fundraisers they normally would."
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Delta on Tuesday afternoon increased to a Category 4, with top winds of 145 mph as it approached Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, and is expected to remain a major hurricane as it crosses the center of the Gulf of Mexico.
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The rapid tests manufactured by companies such as Abbott Labs show promise for accurate, widespread testing. Houston’s medical offices and labs would be able to process the rapid tests, which cost as little as $5.
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NOAA defines rapid intensification as an increase in the maximum sustained winds of a tropical cyclone by at least 34.5 mph in a 24-hour period. Hurricane Delta increased by 63 mph in 24 hours.
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Six employees of Lexington’s emergency management division are quarantined after being exposed to the employee, who recently traveled out of state, said city spokeswoman Susan Straub. Of the department’s 10 employees, seven, including the infected worker, are in isolation or quarantine.
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The August Complex wildfire, which started out as 37 different fires in Mendocino National Forest, surpassed 1 million acres Monday, by far the largest conflagration in recorded state history, and it is still burning.
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More than 215 Napa County wineries remained under mandatory evacuation or evacuation warnings, exposing some of California’s most celebrated, highest-end Cabernet Sauvignon producers to potential catastrophe.
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A collaboration among the California county and stakeholders like Cal Fire and the regional water agency aims to create a more resilient forest in a project that could be a model for other state fire efforts.
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Worcester officials — whose city has been listed in the red in the past three weekly state reports — linked their high-risk status to clusters that emerged from factories, retail establishments, long-term care facilities and four cases from a youth hockey league.
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Oklahoma State Health Department figures show the number of active cases within the city of Muskogee continue to climb. On Tuesday, the agency reported a cumulative total of 761 cases within the city’s municipal boundaries, 16 deaths and 560 reported recoveries, leaving 185 active cases.
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The panelists agreed that when houses and other structures play a significant role in a wildland fire, they can cause a shift in fire behavior because a home and its contents burn differently than trees or underbrush.
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"If approved, this federal declaration will allow many municipalities in our state to become eligible for much-needed cost reimbursements as they continue to fix damaged infrastructure from the storm.”
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The Zogg fire is responsible for three deaths and had destroyed 146 structures as of Wednesday. Both of those figures were unchanged from Tuesday, and crews are now reporting 7% containment of the blaze.
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Public safety officials say it’s critical to keep up-to-date with local information in your county. Cal Fire spokeswoman Lynne Tolmachoff recommends following local law enforcement websites because they’re the ones that put evacuation plans into action.
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The most discussed alternative is burying power cables underground. The move would have avoided the long-term outages caused by toppled wooden power poles from Hurricane Sally, a Category 2 storm that also brought torrential rainfall.
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The federal emergency declaration would be the third this year, including one in August that provided grants for fires raging through Northern California. Earlier, federal money came through to help with the pandemic.
