Preparedness

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.

Hurricane Margot formed Monday in the central Atlantic. Margot is expected to kick up to a Category 2 hurricane with potential top winds of 100 mph in the coming days.

It’s hard to know for sure how COVID-19 infections are trending due to home testing and relaxed data reporting requirements. However, hospitalization data reported to the CDC shows hospital admissions are on the rise.

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Because of the presence of the Somewear Grid platform technology, first responders were on-scene delivering life-saving actions within three minutes to a caddie at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am Golf Tournament in February.

The installations consist of new Cradlepoint modems and routers, allowing the PSAPs to transport critical information and ensure the data is encrypted. The new modems and routers are replacing older, aging models.

The call for conservation follows the agency’s move into emergency operations on Wednesday night. The alert was issued shortly before 8 p.m. for the first time this summer “to maintain reliability of the grid.”

The Grade Crossing Elimination Program was pitched by Gov. Mike DeWine and approved by the Ohio General Assembly in the recently passed 2024-2025 operating budget.

One of the Virgin Islands' top disaster-preparedness officials warned of developing Atlantic storms during a weekly Government House briefing on Tuesday afternoon.

Urgent pleas for people to stay home seem to have worked. California Department of Transportation data for Los Angeles and Ventura counties show that traffic on freeways during the peak of the storm fell by 30%.

Search and rescue efforts are beginning to conclude in many counties, transitioning to recovery efforts, said Kevin Guthrie, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management.

The portable telecom units from Rescue42 are being used during wildfires when the you-know-what hits the fan — which it inevitably does — and communication is lost. They can last for up to 10 days.

“Looks like we dodged a bullet, but we’ve still got some work to do to make sure the counties have what they need,” S.C. Emergency Management Division Director Kim Stenson said Thursday morning.