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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As of Sunday, 148 UW-Madison students had tested positive for COVID-19, the university reported Monday. Of those, 37 students live in residence halls and 111 live off-campus. One employee tested positive.
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Containment remained stuck at 0%, a combined gathering of local, state and federal officials said during a news conference at Sierra High School in Tollhouse, where a grim though still general assessment of heavy structural damage was reported.
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The study surveyed more than 21,000 nurses; 58 percent said that they were reusing single-use PPE like N95 masks for five or more days and 68 percent said that reusing single-use PPE was required at their facility.
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She said Pennsylvania ranked among the top five states in controlling the spread of COVID-19, and she credited social distancing and mask-wearing for that and expressed her approval for the statewide restrictions placed on restaurants and bars.
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As we stand over the rubble of this public health disaster, still stunned by the events of the past three months, we are compelled to give our account as front-line physicians and offer some hard-earned lessons for preventing similar outbreaks in correctional facilities.
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Since April, Maine has kept the infection rate down. Last week, the state’s per-capita coronavirus death rate was second-lowest in the country at 1 per 100,000 residents, behind Vermont, and the positivity rate was 0.8 percent.
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Gatherings are still restricted to 50 percent for an indoor facility's occupancy or 75 percent for an outdoor facility. No gatherings may exceed 10,000 individuals. Parades, carnivals, midways, dances (except dance recitals), street dances and beer gardens are prohibited.
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Public safety communications between emergency dispatchers and police, or “scanner” traffic, has long been monitored by members of the press and others to track the response to shootings, stabbings and other calls.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency donated 9 million masks to Ohio as part of a new mask-distribution program. These masks will be distributed among the Ohio Department of Education, programs and organizations serving vulnerable populations.
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The House returns to session and a renewed effort is afoot in the chamber to thwart the governor’s emergency powers by overriding Wolf’s veto of a bill that would let the Legislature force him to end the disaster declaration.
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The equipment resembles a skeletal robot, but the human face of nurse Bre Loughlin appears on the screen. It’s 4 p.m., time to screen 40 or so women for COVID-19 before they sign in for the night at the homeless shelter on East Washington Avenue.
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“There’s a direct relationship between heat and fire, and increasing heat is inevitable for at least a few decades,” said Michael Gerrard, director of Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. “If you like 2020, you’re going to love 2050.”
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Health care officials in the private, public and nonprofit sectors are collaborating on a multipronged initiative to bring more nurses in to the state to address the increasing caseload caused by the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak.
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The treatment -- passive immunization -- uses antibodies from plasma of people who have recovered from the coronavirus. Doctors can now obtain the plasma, package it and share it through established blood-banking procedures.
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Tablet Command is a software-as-a-service tool that helps first responders manage resources and staff on the scene. It’s being used during the California wildfires and in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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On Tuesday, however, 120 positive results were identified from 15,850 new tests, the highest number found in a single day since the testing program launched in early July. Those results brought the rolling five-day positivity rate to about 0.75% for all tests performed.
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Winona County Emergency Management director Ben Klinger emphasized Wednesday that COVID-19 has been a learning experience for everybody, including his office, but that compliance with state-mandated orders are the key to preventing the spread of the illness.
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The National Hurricane Center says Laura will move across Arkansas on Thursday night, the mid-Mississippi Valley on Friday and the mid-Atlantic states on Saturday. Laura was about to be downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved inland, with maximum sustained winds just over Category 1 strength at 10 a.m. Thursday.
