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In December a judge ordered that FEMA restore funding to its Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, including money earmarked for Washington. Tuesday, a coalition of states asked that the ruling be enforced. -
Several members of Lexington’s Urban County Council expressed frustration about how the city responded to Winter Storm Fern, especially in light of the increased frequency of what were once rare weather events.
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Washington, D.C., government shifted to operate with modifications, to ensure essential services remained available during the January snow event. IT played a supportive role behind the scenes.
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“We have been carefully monitoring the transmission rates for West Hartford and our neighboring towns, and we have achieved the benchmarks which allow us to safely lift the mask mandate,” Town Manager Matt Hart said in a statement.
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Most station chiefs say they would like to let their employees decide for themselves whether they want to be vaccinated. But with a government mandate in effect, that's no longer possible.
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Both police and crisis mobile team workers are walking into a "universe of unknowns" when responding to calls, unless they can share information.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is considering a pilot program of two-person teams comprised of a mental health clinician and an emergency medical technician to respond to low-risk 911 calls and defuse any situation involving people going through a mental health crisis.
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Fentanyl was detected in the blood of 89 of the 260 total people who died from overdoses in San Francisco in 2018, while it was present in 519 of the 712 people who overdosed in 2020.
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Some elective procedures in surgery, cardiology and interventional radiology will be temporarily stopped. Cancer-related procedures, emergency services and ambulatory surgery sites will not be affected.
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Thanks to the same emergency mobilization system that allows a city like Spokane to send its firefighters to a wildfire burning halfway across the state, area firefighters were sent north this spring to help meet the surge of demand for the COVID-19 vaccine in rural communities.
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One in four COVID-19-related deaths may be attributable to the overcrowding at hospitals that has occurred since the pandemic began, a problem exacerbated by unvaccinated patients and overworked staff.
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"The Sheriff's Office needed a database that would be an all-encompassing system. Currently, we are operating out of multiple systems which means duplicating work and loss of valuable time."
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“The hospitals are full. People are coming in suffering from neglected conditions because they’ve deferred care for almost a year and a half, or because they’re seeking elective procedures that they’ve delayed.”
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