Response

Firefighters and EMTs and police officers rushed to the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in West Reading, Pa., dousing flames and digging through rubble looking for survivors. Others wanted to help, too.

The shooter, Audrey Hale, had two assault-type rifles and at least one pistol, a police spokesperson said at a briefing. Hale entered the school through a side entrance and traversed the first and second floors of the building.

Storm systems brought “thunderstorms, high-velocity straight-line winds and multiple tornadoes." It came after tornadoes took more than two dozen lives in Mississippi and Alabama.

By Sunday night, the hope for survivors came to an end, the death toll having risen to seven. The final bodies pulled from the debris were believed to be unaccounted-for workers, according to authorities.

Parts of the Santa Cruz Mountains were still without power Sunday morning, according to the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. outage map. It was not immediately clear how many customers were affected.

Unlike an ambulance service focused solely on emergency medical services, the city's paramedics will be supplemented by firefighters who would be on duty whether the city had an ambulance service or not.

"A hybrid of a couple of full-time people to lead the department to do the planning and training for the department and take calls during the day when volunteers are typically at work is kind of what we're after."

"We wanted a different way for the citizens to talk to 911, and this way we can communicate real-time information that we can share with responders. This is the next generation of 911."

When faced with seemingly impossible situations and the world watching, leaders have turned to the “craziest ideas” to mitigate the situation even when the odds were against them. Oftentimes, they worked.

In a March 15 letter to Pete Buttigeg and Federal Railroad Administrator Amit Bose, elected officials expressed "deep concern" about what they called inadequate federal regulations governing the transport of hazardous materials by rail.

Avery, 62, and Klimpel, 49, were in the 20th hour of their 24-hour shift, another day at work for the veteran firefighters with nearly 57 years of experience between them battling blazes in Los Angeles.

“The unique and challenging part of this storm was that it hit so many parts of our state simultaneously, so you’re unable to move equipment from other parts of the state that are trying to keep their lifeline roads open.”

The CSX train was traveling through New River Gorge National Park and Preserve south of Sanderson just before 5 a.m. when it struck a rockslide, caught fire and fell off the tracks, according to CSX.

Officials from the state Office of Emergency Management and the California Highway Patrol, among others, are in the mountain communities helping local agencies dig residents out of their homes and clear the roads.

"The Command Post includes state-of-the-art technology and more square footage for first responders to operate for several days at a time during an emergency."

911 professionals invaded the nation’s capital this week to engage with each other and Congress, and to let legislators know of improvements being made to 911 services, as well as those still needed.

"The main federal firefighting funding programs, one called AFG and one called SAFER, are at risk of being totally eliminated because their funding expires at the end of this fiscal year."

When first responders arrived, they found the tanker turned off the road and its driver trapped inside. After taking off the vehicle's windshield, fire officials were able to rescue the driver.