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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The “agile fire station” would be tailored to the modern firefighter and be designed to mitigate the onset of pathogens, like COVID-19, as well as serve the community by creating surge capacity for mass vaccinations.
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UM posted an update on its COVID-19 dashboard Thursday, Sept. 24, saying the university is aware of the increase in positive cases and that the Washtenaw County Health Department is managing the off-campus cases and providing contact tracing.
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Advocacy groups returning to face-to-face outreach are finding a landscape changed by the coronavirus, and they have become lifelines, through food banks or passing along contacts for organizations that help with rent or utility bills.
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"We continue to work with our partners in the community to take reasonable action to mitigate COVID-19," Douglas said. " The recommendations to mitigate COVID-19 include the use of face coverings, social distancing, increased hand-washing/sanitizing, and staying home if you are ill."
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Between Aug. 1 and Sept. 10, the historically bad concentrations of wildfire smoke were responsible for at least 1,200 and possibly up to 3,000 deaths in California that otherwise would not have occurred, according to an estimate by researchers at Stanford University.
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The governor announced on Tuesday the new mask mandate — along with the governor's third public health emergency — in an effort to control the spread of COVID-19. Positive cases had started to drop after Evers' first mask mandate in July, but have been rising.
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New data reveals that while patients are still being rushed to intensive care units, a greater proportion are coming out alive. Since the pandemic began, the cumulative death rate for Californians with COVID-19 has fallen by more than half.
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Today, the nation is expected to record its 200,000th death from COVID-19. As of Monday, 760 of these people died in San Diego County. As the nation marks this milestone, we spoke to several county residents on how the pandemic has changed their lives.
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At least 94 people tied to the farm tested positive, the largest farm outbreak in Oceana County, according to county health department emails obtained by the Documenting COVID-19 project at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University.
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“We’ll really have a good sense of people having the flu, coupled with coronavirus on top of it, and how it affected our morbidity and mortality. We’re participating with delivering the flu vaccine. We’re hitting high-risk populations.”
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On Sept. 11, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill, calling it "legislation (that) rights a historic wrong and recognizes the sacrifice of thousands of incarcerated people who have helped battle wildfires in our state."
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Last week, Americans saw it happen again. No one’s given a name to the conflagration that incinerated almost 5 million acres of California, Oregon and Washington just in the last week and filled the skies with smoke.
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“I’m pissed. I’m pissed about how this country has handled this thing. I’m pissed about how our state has handled it,” Wells said last week, as he made funeral arrangements. “I mean our bars are open right now. It’s ridiculous. Our kids can’t go to school and our bars are open. What the hell?”
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Relatives said she worried about depleted personal protective equipment and described her workplace as a scene out of “M*A*S*H,” the hit television sitcom about an Army hospital during the Korean War.
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Six months after issuing the emergency order, Walz said he is looking for declines in both the positivity rate of COVID-19 diagnostic testing, and the rate of infections that can't be traced to community sources.
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Feeling new urgency from a historic wildfire season, Western legislators have put forward proposals for addressing the region’s forests, which are unnaturally overgrown thanks to decades of fire suppression.
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"My recovery is a daily fight, but fighting makes me stronger," Giffords said. "Words once came easily. Today I struggle to speak, but I've not lost my voice. America needs all of us to speak out even when you have to fight to find the words."
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The state suspended use of the California lab, NovaDX, on Wednesday, a day after The News informed Texas officials of a federal inspection report from July. The report questioned the qualifications of lab workers and found practices that could allow contamination of samples.
