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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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.
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No matter the lockdown model, a range of business interests are already making the case directly and on a daily basis to the Cuomo administration that the state can ill afford the economic walloping New York took during the shutdowns this spring.
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Many trends held from the first 1,000 deaths to the second. Age was the dominant risk factor, with 81 percent of deaths involving people 70 or older. Minorities continue to suffer more deaths at younger ages, representing 61 percent of COVID-19 deaths under age 65.
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The cloud-based platform allows the city to bring together data that is trapped in silos, analyze the data and present it visually to drive mitigation policies that could help ward off a second wave of the coronavirus.
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Survivors often rush to their homes to assess the damage, sifting through the debris looking for keepsakes in shorts and flip flops. What they don’t realize is that wildfires generate high concentrations of toxic chemicals, poisonous gases and heavy metals.
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Virtual watchers can use computers or tablets to monitor the camera feeds. Pointer said the method for monitoring is much different when done virtually. Only some of the cameras rotate. They also are not zoomed in and take a more broad view of the area.
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“(With) the levels of COVID-19 that we are faced with and addressing now, if we add on the potential for more flu patients, we will again be stretching our inpatient hospital capacity to its limits, and we would like to do everything we can to keep us from getting there.”
