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The county in Texas Hill Country accepted the funds from the state following last summer's deadly flooding on the Guadalupe River. Neighboring Kerr County accepted a similar state grant this week. -
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.
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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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“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.
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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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