When everyone who tests positive for coronavirus in your community gets a call from a public health worker asking them about their contacts, and those contacts are then asked to quarantine, that can be a powerful way to keep the virus from spreading.
But contact tracing can do more than that: At scale, the data gathered in those calls also offers vital information about where transmission is happening in a community. - PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Public Radio
VIDEO: Prankster Stephen Gilchrist Glover, better known as Steve-O, was removed from a Hollywood billboard to which he taped himself Thursday.
Glover posted a selfie on Instagram, showing several layers of what appears to be black tape covering his body from his armpits to his thighs. Video of him being removed from the billboard showed he only wore what appeared to be white underwear underneath the tape. - PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCAL-TV CBS 9 Los Angeles
A Lebanon firefighter who was injured in an explosion at a hotel on Christmas Eve morning last year is telling what happened.
Capt. Jeffrey Egner was one of two firefighters who were injured in an explosion at the Element Hotel in Lebanon on the morning of Dec. 24. According to the Lebanon Fire Department, they received an alarm just after 5:15 a. - PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPTZ-TV NBC 5 Plattsburg
Eric Retterbush has never liked taking photos of people. The practice feels invasive and risks overlooking the beauty of, say, a wheelbarrow or a particularly striking façade, he says. It also teeters on voyeurism. How many in the throng of a bustling Burmese market—one of the countries he works in as a travel guide (his day job)—have been photographed without their permission? Wasn’t it Honoré de Balzac who said all physical bodies were made of ghostlike images, “an infinite number of leaflike skins laid one on top of the other,” and repeated exposure to a camera stripped these—that is, the very essence of life—off?
No—street photography, candid portraiture, a shot of someone who doesn’t know you—it was never Retterbush’s pull. - PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Daily Sun
A firefighter narrowly missed what could have been a dangerous situation.
Sacramento Fire crews responded around 2:15 a.m. Thursday to deal with a pickup truck that caught fire near the intersection of Beloit Drive and Main Avenue
During the firefight, one of the tires on the truck exploded right in front of a firefighter. - PUB DATE: 8/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOVR-TV CBS 13 Sacramento
the wake of last September’s explosion in Farmington, which was caused by a gas leak and claimed the life of Farmington Fire Department Captain Michael Bell and injured several others, Governor Janet Mills announced Wednesday that her administration has purchased gas detection meters for twenty fire departments across Maine. - PUB DATE: 8/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCSH-TV NBC 6 Portland
The large overnight fire in Durham may bring back memories of a similar one three years ago in Raleigh. During the historic Raleigh fire, flames spread to nine buildings – it was a much bigger fire.
Many people are asking: Why did the Raleigh fire expand so much farther and cause so much more damage than the Durham fire?
Sandy Kromenacker, a fire expert in Raleigh, compared this Durham fire to the memorable downtown Raleigh fire in 2017, saying, "Both properties were under construction. - PUB DATE: 8/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRAL-TV NBC 5 Raleigh
In a town where nearly everyone lives in the same building, COVID-19 has emerged.
The Prince William Sound community of Whittier, where around 85% percent of its 280 year-round residents live in the 14-story Begich Towers building, now has six positive resident cases among a family there, according to Jim Hunt, Whittier city manager. - PUB DATE: 8/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Anchorage Daily News - Metered Site
VIDEO: A historic building in Uptown in Kenosha that houses several businesses and apartments was the scene of a massive fire early Wednesday morning.
The fire, which was called in just before 8 a.m., apparently started at the Music Outlet, 6217 22nd Ave., according to Kenosha Fire Chief Charles Leipzig. - PUB DATE: 8/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has cut a one-year deal with the Chicago Firefighters Union that includes $95 million in back pay but would nearly double employee health care contributions.
One union official said rank-and-file members are “not happy” about the hike in health care costs, though the contract also maintains treasured union perks and outdated staffing requirements that cost taxpayers millions. - PUB DATE: 8/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Sun Times - Metered Site
VIDEO: The Franklin Fire Department trains for all types of incidents, but the rescue of two teenagers from a railroad bridge above the Harpeth River Monday was unique.
Officials told News 2 the teenagers were walking on the railroad tracks around 8:15 at night. One of them dropped a cell phone, and both went to retrieve it. - PUB DATE: 8/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKRN-TV ABC 2 Nashville
PHOTO: The Wilmington Fire Department is testing out new helmets, only four firefighters are giving the new equipment a try right now, but the deputy fire chief says it could be something they phase in over time.
The helmets look much different than the traditional design with many bells and whistles that make them unique including LED lights. - PUB DATE: 8/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WWAY-TV ABC/CBS/CW 3 Wilmington
Brownouts for local fire stations have been taken off the table as county officials plan to use one-time funds to bolster deficits in the Kern County Fire Department budget.
Citing the need to save $6.5 million annually, Fire Chief David Witt prepared a plan that would have temporarily closed an average of three fire stations per day for the next year. - PUB DATE: 8/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bakersfield.com
Hawaii is regularly seeing triple-digit increases in COVID-19 infections, a situation that underscores just how fast the virus is spreading in Hawaii.
Scientists actually track that rate of spread ? or reproduction rate.
And experts say that Hawaii now has the highest reproduction rate in the nation, at 1. - PUB DATE: 8/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hawaii News Now
VIDEO: The driver of a big rig was seriously hurt in a Tuesday morning crash involving three fire trucks that shut down a portion of Interstate 85 in Rowan County for hours.
The crash happened shortly before 5 a.m. in the southbound lanes near mile marker 82, north of Long Ferry Road and near the Yadkin River. - PUB DATE: 8/11/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSCO-TV ABC 9 Charlotte
North Metro firefighter Matt Chan was crowned champion during Monday night's season finale of "The Titans Games" on NBC.
Chan and Dani Speegle each took home the title after competing among a field of elite athletes in a series of intense athletic competitions.
Along with the title, Chan and Speegle are each taking home a $100,000 cash prize. - PUB DATE: 8/11/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KUSA-TV NBC 9 Denver
VIDEO: The images shot from above Rachael Ray's Lake Luzerne home offer some perspective of the damage. Most of it, according the county fire coordinator, was contained to the second floor of the two-story, 12-year-old home.
"The kitchen wasn't touched at all, so pretty much the whole first floor is in good shape," said Warren County Fire Coordinator Brian LaFlure. - PUB DATE: 8/11/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNYT-TV NBC 13 Albany
Nearly 600 children in the United States have been diagnosed with a medical syndrome linked to COVID-19 and 10 of those children have died as a result, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC released updated information Friday as it continues to track the prevalence and effects of multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children, known as MIS-C. - PUB DATE: 8/11/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPIX-TV CW 11 New York
Chief G. Edward Bradley is pleased to announce that the Plymouth Fire Department assisted local and state agencies to provide an escort for the renovated Mayflower II ship into Plymouth Harbor on Monday, Aug. 10.
The ship, which is a replica of the original Mayflower that brought the Pilgrims to America 400 years ago this year, docked at Pilgrim Memorial State Park following a month-long journey up the coast from Connecticut. - PUB DATE: 8/11/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The CapeCod.com NewsCenter
VIDEO: One person has died and at least three others are critically injured after several houses exploded in Baltimore on Monday morning, officials say.
The explosion happened in the area of 6500 blk Reisterstown Rd 21215. Firefighters have rescued three critically injured patients. Special Rescue Operations are searching for more victims. - PUB DATE: 8/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJLA-TV ABC 7 Washington DC
