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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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Forecasters at the center warned that the Category 4 storm could produce an “unsurvivable storm surge” and “devastating wind damage” where it makes landfall.
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Some residents of Napa and Sonoma counties were allowed to return home after two days of favorable conditions that allowed firefighters to increase containment of the massive LNU Lightning Complex fires to 27 percent.
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All residents of Orange and Jefferson counties were ordered to leave as Tropical Storm Laura slugged its way toward the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, where it was projected to strengthen into at least a Category 2 hurricane.
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Despite heeding much of the emergency management guidance dispensed in the last year from Sacramento, counties dealing with the LNU Lightning Complex fire burning in Northern California have nonetheless encountered issues.
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In the past week blazes have stretched California’s firefighting resources to the limit. Over a few days, fires ignited by lightning in an intense heat wave torched an area more than twice the size of Los Angeles, forcing 119,000 people to flee in the middle of a pandemic.
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Based on the latest forecast track, each storm would be making landfall at hurricane strength in Louisiana, west of New Orleans, with Marco landing Monday afternoon, and Laura about 60 hours later. If Laura and Marco became hurricanes simultaneously in the Gulf of Mexico.
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On that Friday morning, grid operators weren’t panicking — yet. While the heat was certainly driving up demand, they had seen far worse days, such as in July 2006 when demand hit an all-time high of 50.3 gigawatts during a deadly heat wave.
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The First Five Consortium is a partnership with the DOE and Microsoft to improve disaster response, including wildfire prediction, search and rescue, flood control, damage assessments and natural disaster response.
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The fires have killed at least five people and destroyed more than 500 structures. More than 60,000 people were under evacuation orders Friday morning as firefighters hoped to use a break in the extreme heat to try to make progress against the raging blazes.
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A spokeswoman for the Cook County sheriff’s office, which provides dispatch services for nine municipalities and Metra, confirmed Thursday the agency would take over 911 services for Harvey’s Police Department Sept. 1.
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On Thursday the county Emergency Operations Center asked that those visiting from out of town overnight to leave immediately in order to make room for the needy, a blow to a hospitality industry still trying to cope with the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The new data was released Thursday as part of a weekly update by the state. The counties each receive an advisory on a scale of 1-4 based on seven indicators of how prolific coronavirus is in a community. The full data for each county can be found at coronavirus.ohio.gov.
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City council approved nearly $15 million in emergency expenditures Wednesday, which include money to hire more temporary medical workers ($7.8 million) and assist Houston artists ($2 million), among other items.
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In all, more than 349,000 acres have burned in Northern and Central California — the equivalent of 546 square miles, more than the land area of the entire city of Los Angeles. At least 134 structures have been destroyed and the fire-fanning weather conditions have brought record temperatures.
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As the coronavirus began to hit New York state, the Department of Health deployed a health-care platform to collect and analyze information from disparate sources to determine trends, manage inventories, and discover correlations and co-morbidities.
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“The hot, dry weather is making fire behavior extreme, and the rapid spread is already taxing our resources to fight fires,” the governor said at an afternoon news conference. “We need to do everything we can to stop fires from starting in the first place.”
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San Antonio likely will run out of money to fund the city’s public health response to COVID-19 if federal lawmakers don’t come up with more money to fight the spread of the disease, the city’s top health official warned Tuesday.
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A spokeswoman for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Monday that it’s too early to say whether the vaccine will be mandatory for any certain occupations or groups of people in New Mexico but that it will be strongly recommended for residents deemed to be at high risk.
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