The Austin EMS Association is worried there aren’t enough ambulances in the city to quickly respond to emergencies. Leadership representing the medics of Austin/Travis County EMS said they were disappointed they didn’t see any new vehicles in the budget released on Monday.
“We are seeing at least 50 calls per day that are related to COVID-19,” said Austin EMS Association President Selena Xie. - PUB DATE: 7/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAN-TV NBC 36 Austin
VIDEO: A Raleigh firefighter is an unofficial Guinness World Record holder, pending paperwork.
5,297. That's how many burpees Nick Christopoulos said he did on Sunday in an un-air-conditioned gym.
"It was as it sounds, awful...yeah."
His venture to hold the title started simply enough- for every call at his firehouse, he'd do 100 burpees. - PUB DATE: 7/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVD ABC 11 Raleigh
VIDEO: Firefighters are trained to rescue people from burning buildings, and they do it without hesitation. It's much more personal when it's one of their own.
Dekalb County firefighter Viv Evans was battling a blaze in Stone Mountain when she got injured. Evans says even while flames were swirling around her, she knew without a doubt her fellow firefighters would get her out. - PUB DATE: 7/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAGA-TV FOX 5 Atlanta
A fire suppression system was inoperable when a blaze erupted aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego, so sailors fought the blaze with water, a top Navy official said Monday.
Rear Adm. Philip Sobeck said the Halon gas system had been turned off because it was being worked on while the amphibious assault ship was undergoing maintenance work. - PUB DATE: 7/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KUSI-TV 51 San Diego
VIDEO: A tense rescue unfolded on Monday morning at a high-rise building in North Palm Beach.
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue Capt. Derek Wiley said rescuers were dispatched to a 23-story building in the 100 block of Lakeshore Drive about 10 a.m.
Wiley said a window washer was hanging from the 15th floor of the building, yelling for help. - PUB DATE: 7/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPTV NBC 5 West Palm Beach
The UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health have launched the Heroes Health Initiative to help support the mental health of first responders and health care workers during the COVID-19 global pandemic. The app is available through the App Store/Google Play Store in the United States, free of charge to first responders, health care workers and their organizations. - PUB DATE: 7/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Knowing which mask is best to prevent person-to-person transmission of the COVID-19 coronavirus is still an open question for most, but slow-motion video shared on YouTube early in July provides a visual basis to judge how best to keep safe amid the global pandemic.
Professor Joe Hanson of the YouTube channel "It's Okay To Be Smart" released a video earlier in July, reviewing the basics of why people should wear masks — in a visual review and primer and recent studies on the effectiveness of masks to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. - PUB DATE: 7/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Interesting Engineering
More than a dozen sailors and several civilians have been hospitalized following an explosion on a Navy ship in San Diego on Sunday, officials said.
A fire broke out aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard sometime around 8:30 a.m. local time, said officials with the Naval Surface Forces. The blaze escalated to a three-alarm fire, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department, which assisted in battling the fire along with base and shipboard firefighting teams. - PUB DATE: 7/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News
A fight for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder coverage years in the making has ended with a win for Cleveland paramedics, EMTs and dispatchers.
A union contract for Cleveland EMS just passed, including about $3.7 million in back pay for employees and mental health language, addressing PTSD.
CARE has been negotiating their contract since March of 2016. - PUB DATE: 7/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOIO-TV CBS 19 Cleveland
There are many statistics available regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, although they aren’t necessarily well coordinated at the national level.
With so many numbers being available, it can be difficult to understand what they mean, how they work together, and how to apply them.
However, experts say a more unified, national approach is essential in getting the pandemic under control. - PUB DATE: 7/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Healthline
San Antonio firefighters handled a crash of their own on Sunday.
One of the department’s fire trucks rolled down the street with no one inside and firefighters chased it down in hot pursuit. The incident happened on Stafford Street near Fire Station 5.
A fire official said they’d parked the truck at New Braunfels and Stafford when the truck started rolling down Stafford. - PUB DATE: 7/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSAT-TV ABC 12 San Antonio
VIDEO: Wildlife officers and firefighters managed to come up with a solution after a bear fell asleep in a tree after being tranquilized. Colorado Parks and Wildlife first responded to a home on Alameda Parkway and Bear Creek Road at 9 a.m. on Saturday for a call about a bear in a tree. Twelve hours later, the 350 lb. - PUB DATE: 7/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCNC-TV CBS 4 Denver
VIDEO: Two workers were pulled from scaffolding that was dangling from the side of an apartment building in Boston's Chinatown on Thursday morning.
The incident happened 13 stories in the air at Tai Tung Village, a housing and business complex.
Witness Andres Mateo told NBC10 Boston he saw the scaffolding drop. - PUB DATE: 7/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBTS-TV NBC 10 Boston
As coronavirus cases surge in much of the country, issues with testing availability and access have once again arisen in nearly every aspect of the testing supply chain, local officials and hospital leaders in several states told ABC News -- a troubling echo of the shortages that plagued the nation's initial response to the virus months ago. - PUB DATE: 7/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News
A 100-year-old technique is still being used by firefighters to save lives in St. Bernard Parish.
Firefighters at the St. Bernard Fire Department say they are incorporating the use of tourniquets when responding to emergencies. "How are you going to help somebody with a gunshot wound," said Mark Caruso, with the St. - PUB DATE: 7/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDSU-TV NBC 6 New Orleans
Survivors of the Camp Fire can get an online sneak peek of the Ron Howard documentary Rebuilding Paradise this weekend.
The original plan of the filmmaker to have it first shown in the Paradise Performing Arts Center.
This couldn't happen, however, due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Instead, the film's debut was at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, which was attended by former Paradise mayor Woody Culleton, who was one of several survivors featured in the documentary. - PUB DATE: 7/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRCR-TV ABC 7 Redding
Frustration continues for a group of Central Florida firefighters being forced to use personal time to self-isolate.
This follows a weekend of positive coronavirus tests among some of the Reedy Creek firefighters.
The firefighter WESH 2’s Bob Hazen spoke to says he worries he’s going to run out of sick days soon. - PUB DATE: 7/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WESH-TV NBC 2 Orlando
PHOTOS: Village police are asking the public for help in finding the vandals who cut down a flagpole at the center of a 9/11 memorial that honors five firefighters from the area who died in the World Trade Center collapse.
The severed pole was discovered and reported early Wednesday morning. Washingtonville Police Chief Brian Zaccaro said the culprits used a tool to cut through the composite material at about four to five feet from the base, and scrawled a message in marker on the part of the pole that remained standing. - PUB DATE: 7/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Times Herald-Record
Michigan Treasurer Rachael Eubanks on Wednesday announced two new grant programs offering a total of $300 million in hazard pay to first responders for working during the coronavirus pandemic.
The First Responder Hazard Pay Premiums and the Public Safety and Public Health Pay Roll Reimbursement programs are aimed at helping first responders receive premium hazard pay and reimbursing local governments for payroll costs incurred due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a July 8 state news release. - PUB DATE: 7/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MLive.com
Screening based on conventional COVID-19 symptoms may not be sensitive enough to identify which 911 patients should be tested for infection, a retrospective cohort study published today in JAMA Network Open found.
In the study, researchers in Seattle evaluated data from surveillance systems and the electronic medical records of 124 patients with COVID-19 seeking 911 emergency medical services (EMS) in King County, Washington, from Feb 1 to Mar 18. - PUB DATE: 7/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
