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| VIDEO: Juneau woman escapes Alaskan rockslide, then stops driver seconds from disaster A woman filmed herself escaping the path of a rockslide near Juneau, Alaska, last week and then frantically rushed to save drivers from getting killed. Alana Davis was recording footage on TikTok from a beach along the Douglas Highway on April 6 when the rockslide happened. Video shows her interrupted mid-sentence by a crashing noise. She immediately grabs her camera and runs for safety, waving her arms and shouting at highway traffic to stop. "Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop your car!" she yelled while trying to catch her breath. Davis said a man driving a pickup was about to encounter a blind turn on the highway while traveling at 50 mph. "Literally 30 seconds from getting killed. Think about that," the man told Davis. FOX WEATHER PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| VIDEO: Fire at California food processing plant prompts evacuations due to ammonia explosion risk The Taylor Farms Processing Facility is still smoldering in Salinas after a massive fire tore through the building on Abbott Street overnight, prompting evacuations. Taylor Farms makes a lot of those prepackaged salad kits you see in the grocery store. A risk of explosion and toxic smoke from the raging fire prompted the Salinas Fire Department to evacuate nearby residents. The evacuation notice is for the areas near the fire -- at the Taylor Farms Processing Facility -- between South Main Street, East Alisal Street, Alisal Road and Harris Road. The order is due to the potential for an explosion and hazmat plume of ammonia that can change the impacted areas based on shifts in wind direction, according to a 2:19 a.m. news release from city officials. The blaze has now closed four nearby elementary schools, city officials announced shortly after 5:30 a.m. -- Lincoln Elementary, Monterey Park Elementary, Sherwood Elementary and Los Padres Elementary. KABC-TV ABC 7 LOS ANGELES Pennsylvania Ambulance carrying powerful antidote There's a big red bag on board the Special Operations vehicle for Pennsylvania Ambulance, and it's not just extra medical supplies. Bruce Beauvais from Pennsylvania Ambulance says every time they respond to a fire, this kit will go with them. Inside is equipment to check for carbon monoxide levels in a victim's bloodstream and the air around them, along with an antidote for hydrogen cyanide poisoning, which can happen when you inhale too much smoke. "We had an idea of what it was for, but we didn't realize that it had a good implication for use in structure fires. We thought maybe for chemical fires and stuff like that, but we what we didn't realize was all the different types of chemicals that burn, and modern-day furniture and modern-day flooring that actually pose a greater issue than, say, a chemical fire, just a regular structure fire, so we thought it's a no-brainer," Beauvais said. WNEP-TV ABC 16 SCRANTON Virginia is the only state that doesn't cover work-related injuries that occur over time John Orndorff says he's an adrenaline junky - that's one of the reasons he became a firefighter more than 17 years ago. But being a lieutenant at Frederick County Fire and Rescue in Winchester, Virginia, means some days are a little less high octane. "We have an elderly community back here behind us that we service," Orndorff says. "One lady back there is a diabetic and I physically sat down and had dinner with her twice because her sugar was low." It wasn't a hard fall or building collapse that caused Orndorff's back injury. It was a combination of hauling 100 pounds of protective clothing and gear and lifting elderly neighbors who had fallen that caused the discs in his spine to deteriorate. "The continual stress of picking stuff up, it just builds and builds," Orndorff says. VIRGINIA PUBLIC MEDIA Several Colorado fire agencies first in the state to have integrated dispatch system VIDEO: The difference between a click and a call matters in a dispatch center, and before April 5, dispatchers at the Thornton Emergency Communication Center had to call other agencies to be able to dispatch them, instead of seeing in real time where they were, and clicking to send them. "So it could take up to one to two to almost three minutes sometimes, depending," said Brandi Seaton, the Communications Center Supervisor. The difference between one and three minutes in her job, she says, is "a life." But those extra steps went away when the new system, called the CAD to CAD Project, went live. "And it just saves so much time for us in here, and stress," Seaton said. Thornton Deputy Fire Chief Steve Kelley has been part of a team working on this integrated dispatch system for five years. KUSA-TV NBC 9 DENVER COVID remains a public health emergency for now, says WHO and Biden administration The World Health Organization and the Biden administration are both saying that COVID-19 remains a public health emergency, even as global deaths from the virus have reached the lowest levels since March 2020. Both the WHO and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first declared COVID-19 a public health emergency in January 2020. More than two years later, the pandemic situation has improved, but global health experts believe the virus is still a major health threat. More needs to be done before the WHO can lift this designation, the organization's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday during a press conference. "Some countries are still witnessing serious spikes in cases, which is putting pressure on hospitals. And our ability to monitor trends is compromised as testing has significantly reduced," he said. NPR PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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