Preparedness

What happens when a community is hit with one hurricane after another within just a few years? How do local emergency managers prepare residents for a hurricane when they are still reeling from a previous one?

After a tropical storm hit Los Angeles in August, a blackout at the city's White Memorial Hospital forced the health care provider to evacuate more than 200 patients from a building housing neonatal intensive care and OB-GYN units.

Tropical-storm-force winds from Philippe could begin arriving in northern Caribbean Islands such as Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands as early as Thursday night, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The new state law went into effect Sept. 1 and requires all emergency medical responders to report drug overdose information to local health authorities, who then feed the data into a software program that maps it.

The message to accompany the test will say, “This is a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System, issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, covering the United States from 14:20 to 14:50 hours ET. This is only a test. No action is required by the public.”

The shots came at an “unauthorized party” at the West Commons student housing complex. A university spokesperson told the station that two students were also injured trying to leave the area.

“There were a lot of hours spent recording interviews, burning copies onto CDs, and submitting those disks into evidence,” said Matt Egan, commander of the Investigations Division at Naperville PD.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has answered Leominster's call for help after flood waters ravaged parts of the city, Mayor Dean Mazzarella said on a Facebook livestream on Monday.

The platform will help keep city residents and nearly 23 million visitors apprised of infrastructure updates and improvements, and inform them of severe weather and other potential hazards.

“It all comes back to being thorough. Background investigators need to be trained in specifically doing a background investigation because it’s not like every other investigation,” said John Letteney, president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

The draft controversially concluded that N95 face masks are equivalent to looser, surgical face masks in certain settings — and that doctors and nurses need to wear only surgical masks when treating patients infected by “common, endemic” viruses.

“Counties in states with permit-to-purchase firearm laws saw a 15% reduction in firearm homicide incidence rates; counties in states with right-to-carry laws saw a 21% increase in firearm homicide incidence rates,” the study said.

Now that they know they are at risk from exposure to PFAS, military firefighters at the more than 700 active and former military installations that have been polluted by AFFF are wondering what to do now.

The Gray fire was one of two wildfires that consumed hundreds of homes, burned thousands of acres and killed two people in Spokane County this summer.

Following the CDC’s recommendation that everyone over 6 months of age receive the new COVID-19 booster, the Infectious Diseases Society of America says widespread vaccination could prevent 15,000 deaths over the next two years.

FEMA's preliminary assessment of damages to uninsured public infrastructure came in at about $1.6 million, said Ashley Paulsrud, grants and finance section chief for the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security.

The virus sometimes causes severe illness even in those without underlying conditions, causing more deaths in children than other vaccine-preventable diseases, as chickenpox did before vaccines against those pathogens were universally recommended.

Family members described the two girls as bubbly and friendly. Ovington had tried out for the cheerleading team and didn’t make it. She worked at a store not far from the homicide scene. Bender taught Sunday school.